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Grab your popcorn… and maybe a barf bag.
We’re diving into the Top 20 Worst Movies of the Last Decade — the most cringe-worthy, confusing, and downright painful films released between 2014 and 2024. These are the movies that made critics groan, audiences walk out, and Hollywood look seriously lost.
From superhero flops to tone-deaf disasters, this countdown covers the biggest cinematic facepalms of recent memory.
On the list:
🧛 Morbius – It’s Morbin’ time… again.
🐱 Cats – Still haunting dreams in digital fur.
🕸️ Madame Web – A web of confusion, not story.
📱 The Emoji Movie – Proof that not everything needs a movie.
🎵 Music – A film that offended more than it entertained.
💬 What movie made YOU question reality?
Let us know in the comments — and don’t forget to follow WatchMojo.World for more epic countdowns, fails, and film deep-dives!
We’re diving into the Top 20 Worst Movies of the Last Decade — the most cringe-worthy, confusing, and downright painful films released between 2014 and 2024. These are the movies that made critics groan, audiences walk out, and Hollywood look seriously lost.
From superhero flops to tone-deaf disasters, this countdown covers the biggest cinematic facepalms of recent memory.
On the list:
🧛 Morbius – It’s Morbin’ time… again.
🐱 Cats – Still haunting dreams in digital fur.
🕸️ Madame Web – A web of confusion, not story.
📱 The Emoji Movie – Proof that not everything needs a movie.
🎵 Music – A film that offended more than it entertained.
💬 What movie made YOU question reality?
Let us know in the comments — and don’t forget to follow WatchMojo.World for more epic countdowns, fails, and film deep-dives!
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00:00For the first time in my entire life, I feel good.
00:04Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the worst movies that were released between 2014 and 2024.
00:13You don't think that maybe in light of recent events I could use a beer?
00:17Number 20. The Fifty Shades of Grey franchise.
00:20Christian Grey.
00:22I'm Anastasia Steele.
00:23Given how over-the-top E.L. James' books are, the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy could have been so bad it's good.
00:29Not unlike Showgirls.
00:31By removing Anastasia Steele's ridiculous narration, though, we're left with a vanilla romance that doesn't even deliver the eroticism the trailers promised.
00:39When you really think about it, there isn't that much BDSM in these movies.
00:43You bought the company I work for.
00:46This isn't a relationship, Christian. It's ownership.
00:50Most of the runtime is instead dedicated to beautiful people driving fancy cars, sailing yachts, flying in private planes, and essentially indulging in the 1% lifestyle.
00:59Then, when we do get to the sensual stuff, it's kept relatively tame.
01:04It all builds to arguably the dumbest ending of the decade in which Anna and Christian live happily ever after.
01:10Fitting?
01:11Number 19. The Emoji Movie.
01:14Today is my first day on the phone.
01:16Oh boy, I'm gonna be so meh.
01:18What are you gonna do?
01:19In 1914, Winsor McKay premiered his animated short, Gertie the Dinosaur, launching a groundbreaking art form into the mainstream.
01:28103 years later, this art form was used to turn Sir Patrick Stewart into a talking piece of poop.
01:34That's because I believe in you.
01:37Should we wash our hands?
01:42McKay would be so proud.
01:44The Emoji Movie doesn't even feel like a real animated feature, but rather a satire of one.
01:49Come to think of it, if smarter writers were involved, maybe this could have been a clever satire about product placement and Hollywood's creative bankruptcy.
01:56This feels very odd, and it smells.
01:59Since this is a movie about a society that inhabits a device, however, it's nothing more than a commercial, really.
02:05As Rotten Tomatoes will tell you, the whole movie can be summed up with a general prohibition sign emoji.
02:11She said wiped. Aim higher, Stephen.
02:16Number 18. Holmes and Watson.
02:19Oh my god!
02:20Oh shit!
02:22Watson, stop panicking!
02:24We can disable the queen!
02:26After Talladega Nights and Step Brothers, we were all ready for another Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly collaboration to be a laugh riot.
02:33The only mystery in Holmes and Watson is how so many funny people produced such a clueless, not to mention elementary comedy.
02:41The movie basically follows the same formula as every other Will Ferrell star vehicle.
02:46An egotistical buffoon needs to learn the value of humility and friendship.
02:50Ah, the most obvious conclusion.
02:52This time, however, the formula is devoid of anything resembling charm, humor, or effort.
02:59In 2018, did the filmmaker seriously think that people would laugh at jokes about fake mustaches, the Titanic, and women being doctors?
03:06What does doctor mean in America?
03:08It means doctor.
03:09The fact that Sony couldn't even pawn this inevitable bomb off on Netflix says everything.
03:15Oh! What? Look!
03:18It's Billy Zed!
03:20Sherlock?
03:23Wow. He's breathtaking.
03:25Number 17. Ghosted.
03:27Maybe your phone's broken.
03:28Yeah, maybe you should do a hard reset.
03:30There's nothing wrong with my phone.
03:31Oh, no, no, no. I meant with your life.
03:34There was a time when streaming originals seemed like the future.
03:37Now, we're not so sure, and most big movies are still being released in theaters.
03:42It's mostly thanks to silly straight-to-streaming junk like Ghosted.
03:45This movie seemingly had everything going for it.
03:48A star-studded cast with Chris Evans and Ana de Armas,
03:51a big Hollywood budget, and action-packed trailers that promised lots of fun.
03:55We don't know what the heck happened.
03:57Evans and de Armas have the chemistry of two mismatched Tinder dates,
04:00and the script was almost certainly written by ChatGPT under the direction,
04:04Make the most derivative action rom-com imaginable.
04:07Ghosted certainly was that, by things like logic, charm, and quality assurance.
04:12I thought that underneath it, there was something.
04:20Something?
04:22Yeah?
04:25I'm wrong, aren't I?
04:27Number 16. Serenity.
04:28I want you to take him out on your boat, let him get drunk,
04:33and drop him in the ocean for the sharks.
04:37This movie was so bad that distributor Averon Pictures knew it,
04:41and they didn't even bother with the marketing.
04:43So, despite a rather hefty budget of $25 million,
04:46and huge stars in Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway,
04:50the movie came and went.
04:51And they were right.
04:52It is bad.
04:53Horrible, even.
04:54Somehow, someway, director Stephen Knight managed to wrangle terrible performances
04:59out of both McConaughey and Hathaway.
05:01But it's not like they had a great script to work with.
05:04Complete with inane dialogue and one of the dumbest plot twists in recent memory,
05:08Serenity is one of those movies you need to see to believe.
05:10You know, don't you?
05:14Know what?
05:16Who the creator is.
05:18Number 15. Gods of Egypt.
05:20Steal from a god.
05:21Only a madman would try such a thing.
05:24Where do you suppose we could find someone so mad?
05:26We don't know how this movie had a budget of $140 million.
05:31Most of that cash must have gone to the cast,
05:33because it sure didn't go to the visual effects.
05:35Despite a good, if not an Egyptian cast and a truckload of cash,
05:39Gods of Egypt is no better than a cheap movie you'd find on the sci-fi channel.
05:43And it looks worse than most of them.
05:45Aside from the ugly visuals,
05:47Gods of Egypt also comes equipped with incompetent direction,
05:50a terrible script,
05:51and a weirdly uncomfortable Gerard Butler
05:53hamming it up as the Egyptian god of the desert.
05:56The gods are gonna give us a plague for this.
05:58Are you sure you're not a god?
06:00What would I be the god of?
06:04Stupidity.
06:05Number 14. The Mummy.
06:07Hey, what did I tell you?
06:08We are not looters.
06:10We are liberators of precious antiquities.
06:13We don't know why they had to remake The Mummy so soon.
06:16Well, we do know why.
06:18Cha-ching.
06:19Only, no cha-ching in this case.
06:21The Mummy was supposed to kickstart a so-called dark universe
06:24involving all the classic universal monsters,
06:27because apparently we need to Avengers-ize every IP in existence.
06:31Tom Cruise could not be less interested,
06:33probably because he's working with a script so old,
06:36it may as well be a mummy itself.
06:38The villain gets wrapped up in an awkward love triangle for some reason,
06:41and Russell Crowe pops up every so often to mumble about a secret society,
06:45so that's about as subtle as a sandstorm.
06:47It's less a movie and more a really expensive commercial for sequels that will never happen.
06:52Welcome to Prodigium, Mr. Morton.
06:55From the Latin,
06:57Monstrum Bell Prodigium.
07:00A warning of monsters.
07:02Number 13. Dirty Grandpa
07:04You do know that I'm not a professor, right?
07:07Yeah, I know.
07:09You're just a dirty, dirty grandpa,
07:11and I'm just a girl from Long Island City.
07:14We can't imagine that Robert De Niro needs money,
07:16but then again, we don't know why else he'd agree to star in a movie like this.
07:19The two-time Oscar winner who has portrayed the likes of Vito Corleone and Travis Bickle
07:23now plays Dick Kelly,
07:25a horny old grandpa who attends spring break with his nephew.
07:28You can imagine the types of shenanigans that occur.
07:31The movie sacrifices things like story and character development for cheap shock laughs,
07:36an unrelenting barrage of cringy one-liners,
07:39and stupid sight gags that make us yearn for the day of good old-fashioned fart jokes.
07:43And the less said about a 70-year-old man ogling young women, the better.
07:47Whoops, I guess they just slipped off.
07:51I want you to tear open my bra like it's a social security check.
07:54Number 12.
07:55Fantastic Four
07:56This film is a beautiful exercise of studio interference ruining a director's vision.
08:02Well, beautiful certainly isn't the right word.
08:04The studio reportedly hated Josh Trank's finished product,
08:07so they hastily filmed some reshoots and hired Stephen E. Rivkin to alter the movie with a new edit.
08:12I'm going to fix this.
08:14You can't fix this.
08:16Nobody can.
08:20The behind-the-scenes drama resulted in a huge mess of a film.
08:23The plotting is all over the place, and the pacing is incomprehensibly bad,
08:28with a dirge of a story and a climax that's over in five minutes.
08:31Seriously, this movie should be studied in film school for how not to edit a movie.
08:36And of course, there's the obviously rushed CGI,
08:38with atrocious-looking characters and a climactic battle that takes place in a green-screen void.
08:44The matter from Earth is being converted to energy.
08:47We need to stop Victor.
08:48He's the source.
08:49Number 11.
08:50The Exorcist Believer
08:52This movie represents everything that is wrong about the modern movie business.
09:08You've got your unnecessary sequel to an iconic movie that is now half a century old.
09:13You've got your legacy characters returning for a bit of unwanted fan service.
09:16And you've got your MCU-ification of it all,
09:19as Believer assembles an Avengers-like team of demon fighters to combat the evil forces.
09:24Seriously, we're getting sick just thinking about this movie.
09:26Believer does not understand what makes the original Exorcist so great,
09:30and it contains none of the thoughtful themes, clever scares, or shocking obscenities.
09:35It's just more of the same possessed girl screams-at-people stuff
09:38that has plagued every other Exorcist knockoff throughout the last 50 years.
09:42I come here to return life to this child from whom it is unwillingly taken.
09:48You don't know what happened to her.
09:51But we do.
09:53She farms it out.
09:54Number 10.
09:55Uglies
09:56Do you want to go to the kitchen?
09:57It's locked.
09:58So?
10:00How are we not already friends?
10:03This Netflix movie was about 15 years too late.
10:07The Uglies novel was published in 2005,
10:09so they really should have done this around 2012,
10:12when young adult dystopias were all the rage.
10:14Now, it just comes across as dated, despite being brand new.
10:17The undeniable talent of Joey King cannot save this ugly movie,
10:21which takes place in a future where teenagers undergo extensive plastic surgery
10:25in order to appear perfect.
10:27Subtlety isn't exactly the name of the game
10:29when it comes to these teen dystopias,
10:31but even by those low standards,
10:33Uglies is about as subtle as a sledgehammer.
10:35With TikTok-tier effects,
10:37derivative social commentary,
10:38and atrocious on-the-nose dialogue,
10:40you can't help but avert your gaze.
10:43Yeah, I don't know.
10:43Things are just different here.
10:45I didn't really know what we'd talk about.
10:48I mean, you'll get it when you're pretty.
10:49Number 9.
10:51Expendables 4
10:52How are you?
10:54Great.
10:58You don't gotta pretend, Lee.
11:00You know Barney wouldn't want to watch you sulking like this.
11:03Phoned in is the best way to describe Expendables 4.
11:06It's not often that you see movies so clearly unfinished as this.
11:10It's obvious that this ugly thing was stitched together at the last minute,
11:13and probably out of unusable footage.
11:16Sylvester Stallone was barely present,
11:18and even when he did bother to show up,
11:20he was clearly checked out.
11:21In fact, most of the beloved cast are painfully absent.
11:24Adding to the pain,
11:25the abysmal dialogue was almost certainly written by AI,
11:29and judging by the nightmarish lighting and visual effects,
11:32the whole movie was probably shot in a warehouse over a long weekend.
11:35It's a cheap and incompetently made movie,
11:38not to mention a disgrace to the Expendables name.
11:41Next time.
11:42Tell me how to pony ride.
11:44Okay?
11:44Number 8.
11:45Borderlands.
11:46He only used to be a psycho.
11:49Now he's my big brother!
11:51How sweet!
11:52One of you killed the other.
11:53I'm gonna go get a coffee.
11:54We thought Eli Roth was in a new phase of his career,
11:57with Thanksgiving being a surprising and very welcome throwback to silly slasher movies.
12:02And then he did Borderlands.
12:04We're truly at a loss for words here,
12:06as Borderlands is awful in nearly every conceivable way.
12:09Even by the low, low standards of video game movies,
12:13this one was truly catastrophic.
12:15It's a baffling film,
12:16from the horrible casting all the way down to the stitched together post-production.
12:20About half the movie is just cheap insert shots and obvious reshoots,
12:24and the other half is visual goop,
12:26accompanied by the most bombastic sound mixing you've ever heard in your life.
12:29Props if you walked out of the theater without a migraine.
12:32God, I hate this planet.
12:34Number 7.
12:35Cats
12:36I don't haunt pubs.
12:37I have eight or nine clubs.
12:39For I'm the St. James' street cat.
12:42Sometimes you just have to stop and ask yourself,
12:45what were they thinking?
12:47No, seriously, what were they thinking?
12:49Cats was doomed from the start,
12:51owing to the baffling creative decision of putting human faces on CGI cat bodies.
12:56Just do what the musical does for crying out loud.
12:58And, you know, it wouldn't be so bad if they took their time and actually did it right.
13:01But, no.
13:02The movie was released with a ton of obvious errors and unfinished CGI,
13:06forcing the studio to patch the film after it was already in theaters.
13:10Think about that for a second.
13:11We're now in an age where studios are patching movies
13:14because they have to rush them out for Christmas.
13:16We really are doomed.
13:17I remember the time I knew what happiness was.
13:28Number 6.
13:29Gaudi
13:30This life ends one of two ways.
13:32Dead or in jail.
13:34I did both.
13:36Congratulations, John Travolta.
13:37You've made your silliest movie since Battlefield Earth.
13:40Are you not aware that I graduated top of my class?
13:44The script for this crime biopic reads like it was written by an AI bot
13:47that gathered all of its data from Italian-American stereotypes and gangster cliches.
13:52You got us into this mess.
13:53Please.
13:54Get the f*** out of your range.
13:56Go on.
13:56Gaudi hits all the familiar mob movie beats, but it's completely deprived of any humanity.
14:01When all's said and done, what do we really learn about John Gaudi by watching this movie?
14:06Well, he was a mob boss.
14:08He had a family.
14:09He swore a lot.
14:11That's about it.
14:12There's no real insight into what made Gaudi such a fascinating figure.
14:16The only thing more confused than the movie itself is the soundtrack,
14:20which includes the musical stylings of Pitbull and the theme from Shaft.
14:2435 years in the same house as his wife.
14:27I mean, that ain't right.
14:28That ain't right.
14:29Number 5.
14:29Kraven the Hunter.
14:30I stared death in the face, and for the first time, I saw my true self.
14:36The superhero genre has been pretty stagnant ever since Endgame,
14:40and the trend of disappointing releases continued with Kraven the Hunter.
14:43Taking place in Sony's Spider-Man universe,
14:45Kraven plops a relatively unknown character into viewers' laps
14:48and desperately hopes the star power and abs of Aaron Taylor Johnson can make him popular.
14:53Chiseled though they are, no, it does not.
14:56All the usual flaws are here.
14:57Bad special effects, obvious reshoots in ADR, horrible editing,
15:01bland script, and desperate attempts to be relevant.
15:04You know how it goes.
15:05We can't say we're Kraven any more of this.
15:08They say he uses a connection with animals to track his prey.
15:13And once you're on his list, there's only one way off.
15:17Number 4.
15:18Loquisha.
15:19Go!
15:20You live with Loquisha.
15:22Welcome to the first episode.
15:25Loquisha is the tale of a white man who cannot get a job in radio.
15:29So he impersonates a sassy black woman to get on the airwaves.
15:33Right.
15:33Because we all know how hard it is for white males in the workforce
15:36and how women of color have everything handed to them.
15:39I think you want me to sign off on this victim act
15:41and find it charming and tell you you've been wrong.
15:44And then you want me to indict half a species
15:47based on the actions of a couple of unevolved members of said species.
15:51Honestly, how did a movie like this get made in the modern world?
15:55It'd be one thing if this was intended to be in poor taste,
15:58but the film actually tries to seriously tackle themes like cultural identity,
16:02gender inequality, and self-harm.
16:04Adding insult to injury,
16:05our protagonist is portrayed as a, quote,
16:08wise, gentle, and kind individual who has all the answers.
16:12Writer slash producer slash director slash star Jeremy Saville
16:16has made the modern equivalent of 1986's Soul Man.
16:19Congratulations, Mr. Watson, and good luck at Harvard.
16:23Thank you, sir.
16:24I'll do my best.
16:25Number three, Morbius.
16:27So what do you say?
16:30Wanna go out with a fight?
16:32Sometimes a movie is so terrible
16:34that it brings the internet together
16:35through a lovable collection of fantastic memes.
16:38Morbius was that movie,
16:40and it was the welcome bomb that we needed after two years of COVID.
16:43You know those fake trailers at the start of Tropic Thunder?
16:45Only this time, it's different.
16:51Who left the fridge open?
16:53Morbius is like one of those trailers,
16:55but real and 100 minutes long.
16:57It's terrible, awful, unwatchable,
17:00but enough about the movie.
17:01Let's talk about how the entire thing was posted to Twitter
17:04in 52 two-minute-long videos,
17:06or how the whole script was uploaded through individual tweets.
17:09That is just genius,
17:11and way more fun than Morbius could ever hope to be.
17:13I've become something different.
17:17I feel a kinship with these creatures.
17:19They would tear anyone else apart,
17:22but they welcome me like a brother.
17:26Number two, Madam Web.
17:27Okay, well, this is what we're gonna do, okay?
17:29We're just gonna, like, lay low for a little bit,
17:32and, um, I'll figure out how to get out of this.
17:36Seriously, what is Sony doing?
17:39Craven, Morbius, and Madam Web
17:40had to be the trifecta of terrible superhero movies,
17:43the terrible trilogy from hell.
17:45Once again, we have an obscure superhero character
17:48hoping to make her big break in the movies,
17:50and once again, it flounders thanks to some truly inept filmmaking.
17:54Madam Web has what could be the worst script in modern memory,
17:58full of gaping plot holes and truly terrible lines
18:00that we can't believe someone actually wrote,
18:03let alone agreed to say.
18:04They actually had the nerve to reword the iconic speech from Spider-Man,
18:08and the less said about the atrocious editing and ADR, the better.
18:12Sony must be stopped.
18:13This can't go on much longer.
18:15And when you take on the responsibility,
18:18great power will come.
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18:35Number 1.
18:38Music
18:38When was the last time I saw you, Music?
18:41Maybe it was, like...
18:42Go too big.
18:43Never before had we watched an entire movie with our mouths hanging open.
18:47That changed after Music,
18:49the barbaric vanity project from Sia.
18:52The singer's longtime buddy and dancer Maddie Ziegler stars as Music Gamble,
18:55a nonverbal autistic girl who comes under the care of her troublesome half-sister.
19:00Music is enormously offensive in virtually every capacity.
19:04Ziegler's casting was controversial,
19:05as was the movie's depiction of autism and its use of restraints.
19:09And even ignoring that and the bizarre Twitter firestorm that resulted,
19:13the movie itself is also just trash,
19:15using autism as a tool to tell a schmaltzy story filled with terrible dialogue.
19:19Maybe its heart was in the right place,
19:21but that doesn't count for much when you manage to offend everyone watching.
19:24In Ghana, my younger brother was the same way.
19:28He liked to be held to feel safe.
19:31Where's he now?
19:33He's dead now.
19:35Oh, I'm sorry.
19:36It's alright.
19:37What other crappy movies did we miss?
19:39Let us know in the comments below.
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