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Cinema gave us some spectacular fails this year! Join us as we count down the cinematic disasters that had audiences cringing and critics sharpening their knives. From big-budget disappointments to vanity projects that should've stayed on the drawing board, these films prove that star power and hefty budgets don't guarantee quality entertainment.
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00:00You know, I really don't remember you being this opinionated.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the 2025 movies that had audiences heading for the exits before the credits rolled.
00:12Aren't you calling me?
00:15Hmm?
00:18Aren't you texting me back?
00:20Number 10, Flight Risk.
00:22Hope you like flying.
00:23Deal for the day, Fort.
00:27I never flew U.S. Marshal before.
00:30Why is he all chained up?
00:32I have to get him to New York, so we can testify against the Moretti crime family.
00:37Okay, hey, you're the boss.
00:39When the most marketable feature of your film is Mark Wahlberg's freshly shaved scalp, then chances are you've got a dud on your hands.
00:46Such was the case with Flight Risk, a noisy, over-the-top action thriller that, oh yeah, was directed by none other than on-again, off-again Hollywood pariah, Mel Gibson.
00:56Moretti's very disappointed in you, Winston, and he wants you dead.
00:59The filmmaker's first cinematic go-around since 2016's Academy Award winning Hacksaw Ridge, this aviation disaster never came close to leaving the tarmac.
01:18Despite a talented cast, including Oscar nominee Wahlberg, alongside Topher Grace, and Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery, Gibson's latest picture is all risk, no reward.
01:29You think he's there to help?
01:31He's there to shoot you down.
01:35Come on, damn it!
01:43Pull up!
01:48Y'all need a pilot?
01:49Number 9, Bride Hard.
01:51You guys, tonight is going to be the best bachelorette party ever.
01:55Because it was organized by my oldest friend, Sam!
02:02Spommings come up, I just have to go.
02:04What? Sam!
02:06Hey, boys and girls, operations happening tonight.
02:09I'm going to get the package.
02:10Hey, remember how great Die Hard was?
02:13Or how Bridesmaids nailed cringey, chaotic nuptials?
02:16Bride Hard tries to fuse the two, and promptly trips over its train.
02:19Sorry to interrupt the happy occasion, folks.
02:22We're here for one reason.
02:24Hey!
02:24You are not supposed to be in here.
02:26Did I miss the wedding?
02:28Is this normal for an American wedding?
02:35Despite a stacked cast that includes Rebel Wilson, Honest Camp, and Klumski, as well as
02:40Oscar winner Divine Joy Randolph, this genre mashup is a tonal mess, lurching between slapstick
02:46and shootouts with all the grace of a tipsy maid of honor.
02:49Critics weren't fooled, either.
02:51William Bibiani of The Wrap called it a pile of celluloid chopped up randomly and reassembled.
02:56And it definitely shows.
02:58This one should have been left at the altar.
03:00I know I've let you down as a friend.
03:02I did kill a bunch of dudes for you.
03:05That means a lot to me.
03:10Right, how does this thing work?
03:12What?
03:12I thought Secret Agents knew how to drive everything.
03:14Not female Secret Agents!
03:16What?
03:17I'm just kidding.
03:18Oh.
03:18Here we go!
03:19Number 8.
03:20In the Lost Lands.
03:21If you've got the time in the stomach for it, I've got a story for you.
03:26You'd be forgiven for having missed In the Lost Lands, or for never realizing it existed.
03:30Paul W.S. Anderson's take on George R.R. Martin's 1982 short story lands with a dull
03:35thud.
03:36Bargain basement CGI, brick-heavy exposition, and cardboard performances turn what should
03:41have been a high-fantasy romp into a grueling slog.
03:44The world you know is gone.
03:47Consumed by the flames of a great war long ago.
03:52All that's left now are the Lost Lands.
03:54Even Dave Bautista's gruff charm, and Mila Jovovich's reunion with a Resident Evil director,
03:59and real-life husband, can't save the film from its own sloppy world-building and plodding
04:04pacing.
04:04It should come as no surprise, then, that it quietly slunk into a token-limited release,
04:09before critics even finished sharpening their dystopian knives.
04:12Your fate was sealed when you met me.
04:20Is this the moment we've been working for?
04:23It's not too late to turn back.
04:27One always has to die.
04:29Number 7.
04:30The Alto Knights.
04:31Once upon a time, Robert De Niro playing two legendary gangsters in the same film would
04:44have equaled packed houses and a license to print money.
04:47Not anymore.
04:48The Alto Knights is a royal snooze under Barry Levinson's listless direction, and that's
04:53despite De Niro pulling double duty as Frank Costello and Vito Genovese.
04:57Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pelleggi on the script, and a sprinkle of Sopranos alumni.
05:02Let's remember something.
05:03I put you where you are today.
05:05It's because of me.
05:07Mr. Good Citizen.
05:09You want to be like them?
05:10Come on, you ain't like them.
05:12They own this country.
05:15They're bigger gangsters than we ever could be.
05:18All of a sudden you want to be half thin, half hot, half a racketeer?
05:22You can't have it both ways.
05:23The pacing drags, the dialogue feels recycled, and De Niro's dual performance comes off as
05:28indulgent self-parody, rather than tour de force.
05:31Result?
05:32A limp $9 million return on a $50 million budget, and a reminder that big-name talent can't
05:38rescue a movie that's running on fumes.
05:40Number six, Love Hurts.
05:54Someone drew a Hitler mustache on my yard sign.
05:58Hitler!
05:58Can you believe that?
05:59Have some dignity.
06:00It's gotta be Jeff Zaks at P-Point messing with me.
06:04I have half a mine of gold.
06:05And do what, Marv?
06:07Cooking dinner?
06:08The guy has like a black belt.
06:10He could crush you with his thumb.
06:12Blame the post-Taken craze for spawning yet another ordinary guy with secret skills knockoff.
06:18But Love Hurts still manages to scrape the bottom of that already well-worn barrel.
06:21K-Hui Kwan, hot off his Oscar win for Everything Everywhere All at Once, plays Marvin Gable,
06:27a seemingly average Joe whose unexpected romance turns into a body count bonanza.
06:32Come on now.
06:33Should've just told us what we got.
06:34Where is Rose?
06:36And why did you not kill her?
06:40What are you doing?
06:41Hmm?
06:42What are you doing?
06:42I just opened that.
06:43Producer David Leitch's action-packed pedigree, which includes John Wick, Atomic Blonde, and
06:48Deadpool 2 isn't enough to redeem this film's bargain bin choreography, sitcom-level dialogue,
06:54and a plot stitched together with cliches.
06:56Critics flattened it to a 19% Rotten Tomatoes score, and audiences stayed away.
07:01The film couldn't even claw back its modest $18 million budget.
07:04I like it here.
07:06Feels good.
07:08It's got a great layout.
07:10Lots of space.
07:11Good life.
07:15What?
07:16Nothing.
07:20You're cute.
07:21Number 5.
07:22A Minecraft Movie.
07:23I've never seen anything like it.
07:25No!
07:27Whoa!
07:28Turns out it was the place I'd been looking for my whole life.
07:31A world where anything you can imagine, you can create!
07:37We probably should have seen this one coming.
07:39After all, how do you make a feature-length film based on a widely beloved video game with
07:43no plot?
07:44It turns out, you kinda can't.
07:46Of course, we have to credit Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess for giving
07:51it his best shot.
07:52While a Minecraft movie certainly shows flashes of potential, it never quite gets there, feeling
07:56less like a creative sandbox and more like a cinematic shrug.
07:59It's my property.
08:00Do you even know what that is?
08:02It's the Orb of Dominance.
08:04It's a cube.
08:06Okay.
08:06Ha ha!
08:07You people seriously have no idea what you're dealing with.
08:10Hand it over and no one gets hurt.
08:12No way!
08:13Okay, we need this thing to get home.
08:15I hate to take a big fat dumperoo on your plans, but you can't get home!
08:19Maybe its mission was just too ambitious.
08:21It needed to connect with both fans of Minecraft and the general uninitiated public.
08:26Whatever the case may be, as with most game-to-movie adaptations, you're best off sticking
08:30to the source material.
08:31L-L-L-Lava, ch-ch-ch-chicken, Steve's Lava Chicken, yeah, it's tasty as hell.
08:38Ooh, mama, see tonight you're ringing a bell.
08:41Number 4.
08:42The Electric State.
08:44What the?
08:44It might sound harsh, but over five years removed from Avengers Endgame, we've come
08:57to expect disappointment from Anthony and Joe Russo.
09:01Since their Marvel peak, the directing duo have stumbled from one misfire to the next,
09:06and unfortunately, the Electric State is no exception.
09:09How'd you two meet?
09:10We actually met in the war.
09:11We're supposed to be killing each other?
09:13We tried.
09:14The bot's had my old platoon surrounded, broke my leg in two.
09:20Ten men circled up, finished off the job.
09:23I look up, I see this big, dumb construction bot peering down at me.
09:27I close my eyes, get ready to die, and instead he just lifts me up, carries me out.
09:31Their second outing for Netflix even reunites them with MCU regulars Chris Pratt and Anthony
09:36Mackie.
09:37But star power can't salvage this overstuffed slog, which ends up coming across as content
09:41rather than a bona fide movie.
09:43The Russo brothers' bloated behemoth fails to light a spark, all while burning through
09:48a staggering $300 million budget.
09:50Epic in scale, maybe.
09:52But in every other way, it's no shock that the Electric State is better left unplugged.
09:56You got me.
09:58You got Herm.
09:59Pretty sure we're not the only ones.
10:01When did you stop being an a**?
10:06No, I didn't.
10:07I just got a haircut.
10:08Number three.
10:09Hurry up tomorrow.
10:10You know the drill, bro.
10:12Let's get that energy.
10:13Let me wear a horse, eh?
10:14Come on, baby.
10:15Come on, baby.
10:16Come on, baby.
10:17Come on, baby.
10:18Come on.
10:19You hear that?
10:23You hear that?
10:24Eh?
10:25You hear that?
10:26Wah!
10:26That's for you!
10:27After the debacle that was HBO's The Idol, you'd think that someone might have pumped
10:31the brakes on the weekend's screen ambitions.
10:34Instead, we got Hurry Up Tomorrow, a glum, meandering vanity project that proves, once again,
10:40that Abel Tesfaye should stick to music.
10:42Despite its stylish cinematography, and a few intriguing ideas about fame and celebrity
10:46in the 21st century, the film collapses under the weight of its own self-seriousness.
10:51I'm leaving you.
10:54And I used to think that you were a good person, but now I know that's not true.
11:01Because a good person wouldn't have done that to someone they love.
11:06And you brought out the worst in me, and you broke me.
11:09Tesfaye might be aiming for arthouse mystique, but what we get is an overwrought mess, with
11:14little to no emotional payoff.
11:16Like The Idol, Hurry Up Tomorrow confuses ambiguity with death, and ends up saying almost
11:21nothing, very slowly.
11:24And I just want to help you, Abel, but you're so happy!
11:26Shut the f*** up!
11:27Shut the f*** up!
11:28Shut up!
11:30What are you doing?
11:31Number 2, Star Trek Section 31.
11:33A customer.
11:34I hope it's for a word with you.
11:36Bring him.
11:39What are you doing in my space station?
11:43I'm giving you a chance to get back in on the action on a galactic scale.
11:47Section 31 was supposed to be a bold new frontier for the franchise.
11:50Instead, it feels like a stranded shuttle.
11:53Technically functional, but going absolutely nowhere.
11:56Pish is a sleek spy thriller spin-off, centered around Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou.
12:00The film instead leans hard on tired tropes, a grim tone, and convoluted lore that even
12:06die-hard Trekkies found exhausting.
12:0831 is a black ops division.
12:09Spy work.
12:10It's just a place for people to bend the rules.
12:13Starfleet is here to make sure no one commits murder.
12:17Whatever you believed your mission was, is worse than you thought.
12:22Despite Oscar-winner Yeoh's undeniable screen presence, Section 31 never justifies its existence
12:28beyond being a franchise checkbox.
12:30It's as forgettable as any straight-to-streaming footnote.
12:34In other words, it boldly goes where Star Trek has already gone many times before, just with
12:39darker lighting and less fun.
12:40You have no idea what you've started.
12:47This is gonna be bad.
12:48Five, four, three, two, one.
12:54We survive together.
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13:12Number 1.
13:13Snow White
13:14You were saying...
13:16It's just...
13:19Your Majesty...
13:20People are struggling.
13:22And it may not be much, but when I was young, my parents and I would...
13:27They'd pick apples.
13:28We'd take them and make pies and go out into the village.
13:31Pies are luxuries.
13:33They don't need luxuries.
13:34Amazing Spider-Man director Mark Webb's live-action Snow White staggered into cinemas already bleeding
13:39from a thousand controversies.
13:41These include, but definitely aren't limited to, Rachel Zegler's perceived jabs at the 1937
13:46classic, and his really star Gal Gadot's participation amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
13:51It's a human.
13:52Well, yes, what did you think I was?
13:54Nothing.
13:55Ghost!
13:56Well, where did you come from?
13:57Are you hungry?
13:58Can we be friends?
13:59What's your name?
14:00Everyone being so cordial.
14:01The only human things that come into the forest anymore are bandits who claim to fight the
14:06king's name.
14:07None of that would have mattered had the film actually worked, but it doesn't.
14:11Webb's Snow White suffers from uncanny CGI, flat musical numbers, and a script so sanitized,
14:17it strips the fairy tale of every trace of peril or wonder.
14:20Saddled with a jaw-dropping near $300 million budget, Snow White clawed back only a little
14:25over $200 million worldwide, proving that even Disney magic can curdle when the apples
14:31rotten to the core.
14:32I believe you're looking for me.
14:35As a matter of fact, I believe it is you who's looking for me.
14:41Did you see any of these stinkers in theaters?
14:43Are there any 2025 duds we missed?
14:44Be sure to let us know in the comments below.
14:47You must have mistaken me for a knight in shining armor.
14:50I don't think anyone's making that mistake.
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