Top 20 Famous Actors That Keep Making Bad Movies.!
Welcome to WatchMojo.world! Today, we’re counting down our picks for the most prominent actors whose filmographies are riddled with less-than-stellar entries. These actors may have had some great roles, but they've also appeared in quite a few clunkers. Here’s our list:
1. **Steven Seagal** - Known for his martial arts skills, Seagal's filmography is filled with straight-to-video action movies that often receive poor reviews.
2. **Tyler Perry** - Although he has a dedicated fan base and has achieved significant commercial success, many of Perry's films, particularly his Madea series, have been critically panned.
3. **Megan Fox** - After her breakout role in "Transformers," Fox has starred in several critically derided films such as "Jonah Hex" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
4. **Jennifer Lopez** - While J.Lo has had some hits like "Selena" and "Hustlers," her filmography also includes numerous critically panned movies such as "Gigli" and "The Boy Next Door."
5. **Adam Sandler** - Despite his popularity, Sandler has starred in many movies that have been critically slammed, including "Jack and Jill," "The Ridiculous 6," and "That's My Boy."
6. **Nicolas Cage** - Known for his eccentric roles and prolific output, Cage's filmography is a mixed bag, with critically acclaimed performances alongside widely panned movies like "Left Behind" and "The Wicker Man."
7. **Bruce Willis** - While Willis has iconic roles in films like "Die Hard," he has also appeared in numerous low-budget, critically panned action films in recent years.
8. **John Travolta** - Despite his talent and iconic roles, Travolta's career includes several flops such as "Battlefield Earth" and "Gotti."
9. **Eddie Murphy** - A comedy legend, Murphy's career includes classics like "Coming to America" but also critically derided films such as "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" and "Norbit."
10. **Jennifer Aniston** - Known for her role on "Friends," Aniston's filmography includes hits but also several poorly reviewed romantic comedies like "The Bounty Hunter" and "Mother's Day."
These actors have all had their ups and downs, with some great performances mixed in with less successful projects. Whose IMDb page looks the worst to you? Let us know in the comments!
1. **Steven Seagal** - Known for his martial arts skills, Seagal's filmography is filled with straight-to-video action movies that often receive poor reviews.
2. **Tyler Perry** - Although he has a dedicated fan base and has achieved significant commercial success, many of Perry's films, particularly his Madea series, have been critically panned.
3. **Megan Fox** - After her breakout role in "Transformers," Fox has starred in several critically derided films such as "Jonah Hex" and "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
4. **Jennifer Lopez** - While J.Lo has had some hits like "Selena" and "Hustlers," her filmography also includes numerous critically panned movies such as "Gigli" and "The Boy Next Door."
5. **Adam Sandler** - Despite his popularity, Sandler has starred in many movies that have been critically slammed, including "Jack and Jill," "The Ridiculous 6," and "That's My Boy."
6. **Nicolas Cage** - Known for his eccentric roles and prolific output, Cage's filmography is a mixed bag, with critically acclaimed performances alongside widely panned movies like "Left Behind" and "The Wicker Man."
7. **Bruce Willis** - While Willis has iconic roles in films like "Die Hard," he has also appeared in numerous low-budget, critically panned action films in recent years.
8. **John Travolta** - Despite his talent and iconic roles, Travolta's career includes several flops such as "Battlefield Earth" and "Gotti."
9. **Eddie Murphy** - A comedy legend, Murphy's career includes classics like "Coming to America" but also critically derided films such as "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" and "Norbit."
10. **Jennifer Aniston** - Known for her role on "Friends," Aniston's filmography includes hits but also several poorly reviewed romantic comedies like "The Bounty Hunter" and "Mother's Day."
These actors have all had their ups and downs, with some great performances mixed in with less successful projects. Whose IMDb page looks the worst to you? Let us know in the comments!
Transcript
00:00Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the most prominent actors
00:12whose filmographies are riddled with less than stellar entries, even though they may
00:15have appeared in a few good films.
00:24Number 20.
00:25Jamie Kennedy
00:26Yes, Jamie Kennedy was in the Scream movies, and we're not taking those classic horror
00:29movies away from him.
00:30However, one look at the rest of his filmography, and you'll find yourself doing a lot of
00:34screaming at how scarily bad it is.
00:36Perhaps the most glaring example is Son of the Mask.
00:47After Jim Carrey refused to make a sequel to The Mask, Kennedy was hired, resulting
00:51in this terrible Golden Raspberry nominated movie.
00:54This was Kennedy's shot at stardom, and it failed spectacularly.
00:57Since then, it's been one obscure, low-quality film after another.
01:01Have you seen Bending the Rules or Buddy Hutchins?
01:10If you plan on doing so, to paraphrase the Good Mask movie, somebody should stop you.
01:15Number 19.
01:16Jennifer Love Hewitt
01:17You know what Jennifer Love Hewitt did last summer?
01:25She made a bad movie.
01:26Okay, so maybe it wasn't literally last summer, but throughout Hewitt's lengthy
01:30career, if she's appeared in a movie, you can almost guarantee that it's a bad one.
01:34Scroll through her catalog on Rotten Tomatoes, and you'll notice something pretty amazing.
01:38Hewitt hasn't made one movie that scored above 54% among critics, excluding The Client
01:43List, which was made for TV.
01:45And it's not just the critics who aren't impressed.
01:52Only a handful of her films have received positive audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes,
01:56with Can't Hardly Wait being maybe the most divisive.
01:59Number 18.
02:00Jean-Claude Van Damme
02:01While most actors tend to make worse movies as their star power wanes, Jean-Claude Van
02:05Damme has actually delivered multiple commendable films in the 21st century.
02:09Perhaps the most notable of these is 2008's J.C.V.D.
02:19However, these few acclaimed works are completely overshadowed by the numerous mediocre movies
02:30the muscles from Brussels has made over his long career.
02:33Despite achieving box office success with titles like Universal Soldier and Time Cop,
02:37many of Van Damme's works have simply fallen short of greatness.
02:40If all it took to make a truly exceptional film was the ability to do the splits, then
02:44Van Damme might have the most impressive filmography ever.
02:56But clearly, it takes a little more than that.
02:58Number 17.
03:00Jessica Biel
03:01Unfortunately for Jessica Biel, her time on Seventh Heaven didn't garner her any goodwill
03:05from the movie gods.
03:13Since she departed the show, Biel's extensive resume has been marked by a lot more misses
03:18than hits.
03:19In an attempt to diversify her roles, she ventured into sci-fi and action, with films
03:23like Blade Trinity and Next to pretty unsuccessful results.
03:26She was even in that awful Total Recall remake in 2012.
03:29Biel has tried her hand at the rom-com thing as well, with turns in Valentine's Day and
03:33New Year's Eve.
03:39However, neither of those produced anything beyond the standard romantic comedy flair.
03:47Number 16.
03:48Gerard Butler
03:49Gerard Butler burst onto our radars with his star-making turn in Zack Snyder's 300.
04:02But even if we were to turn a blind eye to his earlier movies, the quality of his work
04:05since then has been just as bad, if not worse.
04:08We assume that with more fame comes a lot more choices.
04:11Unfortunately, some of the choices Butler has made have been questionable, to say the
04:15least.
04:16Gamer is an all-style, no-substance action movie, and the rom-coms The Ugly Truth and
04:21The Bounty Hunter possess neither believable romance nor clever comedy.
04:252011's take on Shakespeare's Coriolanus may stand out as a rare high point, but films
04:31like the Has Fallen franchise only regress him into mediocrity.
04:35Number 15.
04:36Jaden Smith
04:37As a full-fledged nepo-baby, Jaden Smith has enjoyed a lot more opportunities than many
04:41of his counterparts.
04:43However, as we've seen in his relatively small body of work, with said opportunities
04:51haven't come the best choices.
04:52Although Smith showed promise with his movie debut in The Pursuit of Happiness, the quality
04:56of his projects since then have taken a steep downturn.
04:59Both The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Karate Kid made money, but while the latter
05:02could be considered average, the former was disliked by both critics and audiences.
05:22Then in 2013, Smith reunited with his dad in After Earth, a movie so widely panned,
05:28the older Smith called it the most painful failure in his career.
05:31Number 14.
05:33While Katharine Heigl has had some negative things to say about Knocked Up, it still ranks
05:37as one of the top comedies of the 2000s, but while that film is a thumbs-up on her IMDb
05:52page, our thumbs turn mostly down for the rest of her credits.
05:56Following Knocked Up, Heigl had a rom-com run that stands out for how generally forgettable
06:00it was.
06:0127 Dresses has its fans, but there's very little good to say about The Ugly Truth, Life
06:06As We Know It, or New Year's Eve.
06:15The 2010s saw Heigl in a number of low-budget misses as well.
06:19Who remembers Home Sweet Hell and Unforgettable?
06:21Exactly.
06:22Number 13.
06:23Pauly Shore
06:24Pauly Shore's tenure as an MTV VJ from 1989 to 1994 propelled him to considerable fame,
06:30particularly among younger audiences.
06:32That fame led to the making of Encino Man, which, despite the critical panning, managed
06:36to turn a modest profit and developed a dedicated fanbase.
06:45This was good for Shore, but bad for 90s filmgoers, who were then inundated with a slew of Pauly
06:49Shore movies, from Son-in-Law to In the Army Now, Jury Duty, and Bio-Dome.
06:58It wasn't just the critics that hated these movies.
07:01The audience didn't show much love to Shore as the decade went on, either, as each movie
07:04earned lesser returns at the box office.
07:07Number 12.
07:08Jennifer Lopez
07:09Jennifer Lopez rose to fame as the titular singer in the well-received 1997 film, Selena.
07:20She quickly followed that up with the cult classic, Anaconda, and the great Steven Soderbergh
07:24film, Out of Sight.
07:26As the 90s came to a close, Lopez was a huge star, but with that stardom came a string
07:30of bad-to-mediocre rom-coms, from The Wedding Planner to The Backup Plan.
07:35And let's not forget her two big flops with Ben Affleck, Kevin Smith's disappointing
07:38Jersey Girl and the widely maligned Gigli.
07:49All of that just gets us to 2010.
07:51Since then, Lopez has appeared in movies like Second Act and Shotgun Wedding, whose
07:55mid-40s Rotten Tomatoes score should tell you all you need to know.
07:59Number 11.
08:00Nicolas Cage
08:01What happened to this career?
08:06Once an A-list actor making huge paychecks for high-profile roles, Nicolas Cage has since
08:11seemingly relegated himself to the realms of straight-to-DVD and video-on-demand.
08:15Well, as it turns out, financial mismanagement is to blame, bad real estate investments and
08:20tax-related issues resulted in serious money problems for the California native, who reportedly
08:25responded by taking on as many acting gigs as possible in order to dig himself out of
08:29the hole.
08:30The severity of his debt can be measured by the huge number of films he's starred in
08:33that you've probably never heard of, like The Runner, Pay the Ghost and Vengeance A
08:37Love Story.
08:47Number 10.
08:48Jessica Alba
08:50This California native first caught the attention of the masses as the star of Dark Angel, a
08:53James Cameron co-created TV series that actually earned Alba a Golden Globe nomination.
09:00Since then, she's become a household name and is widely considered one of the most beautiful
09:04women in Hollywood.
09:05Praise for her acting, however, has diminished.
09:08Many of her films have earned her Razzie nominations, including, but not limited to, Into the Blue,
09:13Fantastic Four, Good Luck Chuck, The Love Guru and Little Fockers.
09:22These days, she's more famous as a businesswoman than as an actress.
09:27Number 9.
09:28Jai Courtney
09:29When John McClane returned to the big screen with Live Free or Die Hard, critics and fans
09:32alike were pleasantly surprised by the strong outing.
09:35Then came the sequel, the critically reviled A Good Day to Die Hard, which introduced many
09:39to Jai Courtney in his first starring role.
09:53Suffice it to say, it wasn't a good start for the Spartacus alumnus.
09:56Though he followed it up with the well-received Australian flick, Felony, roles in I, Frankenstein
10:01and The Divergent Series tipped the scale in the wrong direction.
10:05Courtney then left his mark on yet another classic action franchise with the poorly-received
10:10Terminator Genisys, but the roles keep on coming.
10:13Number 8.
10:14Jennifer Aniston
10:15Jennifer Aniston's career will forever remain iconic for starring in one of the best sitcoms
10:19in TV history.
10:28She's even made some great film choices as well.
10:31Just look at the high-quality laugh-out-loud comedies Office Space and Horrible Bosses.
10:35However, to paraphrase Ross, for much of her film career, it seems like she was on a break
10:39from good movies.
10:40Bruce Almighty may have made a lot of money, but its mediocre reviews certainly didn't
10:44bode well for Aniston.
10:53She followed that up with Along Came Polly, Rumor Has It, and The Break-Up, which all
10:57have Rotten Tomatoes scores under 35%.
11:00As if to crown all of her lackluster efforts, Aniston ultimately earned a Golden Raspberry
11:05nomination for her turn in Just Go With It.
11:08Number 7.
11:09Taylor Lautner
11:10Heartthrob though he may be, Taylor Lautner has seemingly struggled to land that transformative
11:14role to help him reinvent himself as a leading man.
11:16And let's be honest, while they were financial juggernauts, the Twilight films weren't
11:20exactly critical successes.
11:25Since then, Lautner has donned the mask of action hero in Obduction and Tracers, both
11:30of which flopped, as well as the guise of funny man in The Ridiculous 6, which currently
11:34boasts 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
11:36And sadly, his foray into indie drama, Run the Tithe, didn't land with critics either.
11:44Number 6.
11:45Ashton Kutcher
11:46Nothing hurts quite like giving it your all on a dramatic biopic, only to have someone
11:50tell the same story two years later, to significantly better reviews.
11:55Sadly, this was Ashton Kutcher's experience when he played tech visionary Steve Jobs in
12:03Before Michael Fassbender took a crack at the role.
12:06Since his days on That 70s Show, Kutcher has put out a steady stream of films that, although
12:10often financially successful, have consistently been duds at least as far as critics are concerned.
12:15Movies like New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, and What Happens in Vegas, we're looking
12:19at you.
12:22Number 5.
12:23Megan Fox
12:24What is there to say about Megan Fox that hasn't already been said?
12:27As a modern sex symbol, this actress has been typecast for her looks pretty much since day
12:32Though she's never been regarded as a particularly gifted actress, in all fairness, the films
12:36in which she's been cast haven't exactly given her much to work with.
12:43You can't help but respect the way she's embraced her place in the film industry, though.
12:47Since becoming a mother, she's publicly stated that she's a mom full-time and an actress
12:50part-time, treating acting as a source of income rather than her true passion, but confident
12:55in getting roles to support her kids.
13:04Number 4.
13:05Tyler Perry
13:06Hey, if you find a character that works at the box office, why not just keep churning
13:10out movies?
13:14Tyler Perry has proven himself to be a talented actor, writer, and filmmaker, with a bank
13:19account to back it up.
13:20But the Madea film franchise he started with Diary of a Mad Black Woman has become a veritable
13:25Razzie magnet over the years.
13:31In the series, Perry plays the titular Madea, a tough, elderly black woman.
13:35Despite the fact that critics have panned almost all of the Madea films, Perry keeps
13:38making them, and audiences keep coming back for more.
13:42Number 3.
13:43Kevin James
13:44Like so many other Hollywood funnymen, Kevin James got his start in stand-up before breaking
13:48into television and landing his own series.
13:59Towards the end of King of Queens, James made the shift into film, a medium in which he
14:03has made quite the name for himself.
14:05His first starring role in the romantic comedy Hitch saw him playing the lovable but bumbling
14:10Albert Brenneman, and that movie actually did quite well.
14:23Since then, however, the films in which he's had a substantial role have all been widely
14:27panned as the lowest common denominator of family comedies, full of cheap laughs.
14:32Number 2.
14:33Steven Seagal
14:34Steven Seagal made his film debut in 1988, and just four years later scored a box office
14:38and critical hit with Under Siege.
14:44From all indications, the martial artist and actor appeared to have a promising action
14:48movie career ahead of him, but instead, Seagal has spent the last three decades making one
14:52bad movie after another.
14:54Besides Machete, the man hasn't been in one non-documentary feature film that scored more
14:58than 53 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, by the critics or the audience.
15:02In fact, the only other good movie he made was Executive Decision, and he's killed about
15:07one-third of the way into the film.
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15:31Number 1.
15:32Adam Sandler
15:33Of all the famous actors out there whose films have taken a nosedive in terms of quality,
15:37Adam Sandler has been going the longest and hardest.
15:43Even when he tries to do better with acclaimed films like Punch-Drunk Love and Uncut Gems,
15:48Sandler quickly reverts to default with a string of terrible, horrible, no-good, very
15:52bad movies.
15:53Despite starring in one critically loathed film after another, he keeps making money
15:57and actually seems to be worth getting into business with.
16:00Netflix signed a film deal with the comedian, and it's been lucrative for both parties.
16:03Looks like Rob Schneider and the rest of the Happy Madison crew will have work for the
16:06foreseeable future.
16:14Whose IMDb page looks the worst to you?
16:16Let us know in the comments.