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Cinema may have had a good run, but these films nearly killed it! Join us as we count down the most disappointing, unwatchable, and downright terrible movies of 2025. From big-budget superhero disasters to streaming catastrophes, these films left audiences wondering why they even bothered. Which cinematic trainwreck was your most painful viewing experience?
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00:00You have to let it go.
00:02You know, I think I'll say it was you who killed everyone.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at movies released in 2025 that left us saying,
00:11well, cinema had a good run, but it's dead now.
00:14I hurt so bad.
00:16Don't hang up, Faye.
00:17Mark, hurry up.
00:19Now I'm almost sad, Pops.
00:20You better be.
00:20Number 20, Captain America Brave New World.
00:23How often do you get a chance to kill Captain America?
00:27Okay, perhaps cinema isn't dead.
00:30The MCU had something of a comeback with critical hits like the Fantastic Four First Steps,
00:34Thunderbolts, and, well, two out of three ain't bad.
00:37Stop, stop.
00:38We all have things that we regret.
00:39No, but I have so many.
00:41Captain America Brave New World is bad, however.
00:44How can a movie where Harrison Ford becomes the president and a giant red monster be so dull?
00:50Probably because any remotely cool scenes were in the trailers.
00:53What the advertising doesn't tell you is that this isn't really a Sam Wilson movie.
00:57It's a Bruce Banner-less sequel to The Incredible Hulk.
01:04Fall back!
01:05Fall back!
01:06You know, that 17-year-old movie everyone called one of the lesser MCU entries?
01:10Until the post-Endgame era.
01:12Requiring viewers to remember details and characters for projects they've long forgotten
01:16is everything wrong with modern Marvel.
01:18Did your speech writers help you with that?
01:20They did, yeah, the ending a little bit.
01:22Did you like it?
01:22No, it was good.
01:23Solid B+.
01:25Say mom, there's an on-the-nose allegory for your unraveling mental health in the yard.
01:31I mean, there's a woman in the yard.
01:33She's just kind of sitting there in her metaphorical black attire gradually getting closer.
01:37You seem confused and lost.
01:40Very gradually.
01:41Like to the point she's barely an inconvenience for half of the movie.
01:44Then, in the second half, she's mostly hidden in the shadows, making it hard to tell what's going on.
01:49Honestly, mom, this could all be resolved if your generation believed in therapy.
01:53But instead, let's sit through an overlong Twilight Zone episode.
01:56Your children are such darlings.
02:01Ripe enough to eat.
02:05Get off my property.
02:07Not the good Twilight Zone with Rod Serling.
02:09The short-lived CBS All Access version, where the hammered-in commentary was prioritized over storytelling,
02:14and the A-list actors were completely wasted.
02:16You called and I came.
02:21Today's the day.
02:2418. Flight Risk
02:26Hope you like flying.
02:28Beautiful day for it.
02:31I never flew a U.S. Marshal before.
02:34Why is he all chained up?
02:36I haven't got him to New York, so we can testify against the Moretti crime family.
02:41Okay, hey, you're the boss.
02:43When the most marketable feature of your film is Mark Wahlberg's freshly shaved scalp,
02:47then chances are you've got a dud on your hands.
02:50Such was the case with Flight Risk, a noisy, over-the-top action thriller that, oh yeah,
02:55was directed by none other than on-again, off-again Hollywood pariah, Mel Gibson.
03:00Moretti's very disappointed in you, Winston, and he wants you dead.
03:09Don't shoot him, we need him!
03:10Mayday, mayday.
03:12We've been compromised.
03:13The pilot's a hitman.
03:14The filmmaker's first cinematic go-around since 2016's Academy Award-winning Hacksaw Ridge,
03:19this aviation disaster never came close to leaving the tarmac.
03:23Despite a talented cast, including Oscar nominee Wahlberg, alongside Topher Grace,
03:28and Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery, Gibson's latest picture is all risk, no reward.
03:33You think he's there to help?
03:35He's there to shoot you down.
03:39Come on, damn it!
03:40You'll be forgiven for having missed In the Lost Lands, or for never realizing it existed.
04:05Paul W.S. Anderson's take on George R.R. Martin's 1982 short story lands with a dull thud.
04:12Bargain-basement CGI, brick-heavy exposition, and cardboard performances turn what should have
04:17been a high-fantasy romp into a grueling slog.
04:20The world you know is gone, consumed by the flames of a great war long ago.
04:27All that's left now are the Lost Lands.
04:30Even Dave Bautista's gruff charm and Mila Jovovich's reunion with a Resident Evil director
04:34and real-life husband can't save the film from its own sloppy world-building and plodding pacing.
04:40It should come as no surprise, then, that it quietly slunk into a token-limited release,
04:44before critics even finish sharpening their dystopian knives.
04:47Your fate was sealed when you met me.
04:55This is the moment we've been working for.
04:58It's not too late to turn back.
05:02One always has to die.
05:04Number 16.
05:05Brideheart
05:06Hey, remember how great Die Hard was?
05:27Or how Bridesmaids nailed cringy, chaotic nuptials?
05:30Brideheart tries to fuse the two, and promptly trips over its train.
05:34Sorry to interrupt the happy occasion.
05:36Folks, we're here for one reason.
05:38Hey, you are not supposed to be in here.
05:41Did I miss the wedding?
05:46Is this normal for an American wedding?
05:50Despite a stacked cast that includes Rebel Wilson, Honest Camp, and Klumski,
05:54as well as Oscar-winner Divine Joy Randolph,
05:57this genre mash-up is a tonal mess,
05:59lurching between slapstick and shootouts,
06:01with all the grace of a tipsy maid of honor.
06:04Critics weren't fooled, either.
06:05William Bibbiani of The Wrap called it
06:07a pile of celluloid chopped up randomly and reassembled.
06:11And it definitely shows.
06:13This one should have been left at the altar.
06:14I know I've let you down as a friend.
06:16I did kill a bunch of dudes for you.
06:20That means a lot to me.
06:21Right, how does this thing work?
06:26What?
06:27I thought secret agents knew how to drive everything.
06:29Not female secret agents!
06:31What?
06:31I'm just kidding.
06:32Oh.
06:32Here we go!
06:33Number 15.
06:34Smurfs.
06:35Hollywood, stop trying to make Smurfs happen.
06:38It's not going to happen.
06:39Uh...
06:40What's happening?
06:42Whoa!
06:42Although Paramount takes the reins from Sony,
06:45this Smurfs movie retreads everything we've seen before.
06:48The Smurfs go from their animated realm to the live-action real world.
06:51Okay, we saw that in the 2011 film.
06:54But this time, they go to Paris.
06:56Oh, wait.
07:03The 2013 movie did that.
07:05Well, this one has a subplot where an outcast Smurf tries to figure out what makes them unique.
07:09Wait, didn't Smurfs' The Lost Village do that too?
07:12Yes, but this time, Smurfette is voiced by a pop star who will force parents to buy the soundtrack.
07:17Don't ever let anyone say you're not anyone.
07:25While nobody expected innovation from Smurfs,
07:28we don't get why studios would repeat what didn't work three times already.
07:32Number 14.
07:33Fear Street Prom Queen.
07:34Coming to you live from Shadyside High.
07:36Only two days to go until senior prom.
07:39And anything could happen.
07:40We're not going to add to that the original Fear Street trilogy was anything revolutionary.
07:44Although an overarching story across different time periods helped it stand out.
07:48Fear Street Prom Queen is more self-contained.
07:51Which would be fine if the filmmakers added an original twist.
07:53A whole bunch of people have disappeared.
07:56Where are all the prom queens?
07:58Instead, Prom Night recycles every slasher cliche in the book.
08:02Not in a clever self-aware way.
08:04This is a slasher movie for audiences who have never seen another slasher movie.
08:07For newbies, maybe it'll seem fresh.
08:09But there are so many superior films that can introduce younger audiences to the genre.
08:14The only element that gives the film a shred of an identity is its 80s backdrop.
08:18Even then, It and Stranger Things did a much better job balancing horror with nostalgia.
08:23If you make a fool of me, this will be the end of you.
08:26Number 13.
08:27The Alto Knights.
08:28Where do I start?
08:32You're going down a very dangerous road.
08:34Have we been down dangerous roads before?
08:36Once upon a time, Robert De Niro playing two legendary gangsters in the same film
08:40would have equaled packed houses and a license to print money.
08:44Not anymore.
08:45The Alto Knights is a royal snooze under Barry Levinson's listless direction.
08:49And that's despite De Niro pulling double duty as Frank Costello and Vito Genovese.
08:54Goodfellas scribe Nicholas Pelleggi on the script and a sprinkle of Sopranos alumni.
08:58Let's remember something.
09:00I put you where you are today.
09:02It's because of me.
09:04Mr. Good Citizen.
09:06You want to be like them?
09:07Come on, you ain't like them.
09:09They own this country.
09:12They're bigger gangsters than we ever could be.
09:15All of a sudden you want to be half thin, half out, half a racketeer?
09:18You can't have it both ways.
09:20The pacing drags, the dialogue feels recycled,
09:23and De Niro's dual performance comes off as indulgent self-parody
09:26rather than tour de force.
09:28Result?
09:29A limp $9 million return on a $50 million budget.
09:33And a reminder that big name talent can't rescue a movie that's running on fumes.
09:37At his own boss.
09:39What are you brought together?
09:41Frank sometimes forgets where he comes from.
09:44Feel more fly off the handle?
09:48Make sure he's dead!
09:49Number 12.
09:50I Know What You Did Last Summer.
09:52It's been 28 years since the first I Know What You Did Last Summer.
09:55Sadly, 28 years later, this ain't.
09:57Nothing holds people accountable like a good old-fashioned murder spree.
10:01We'd also argue that it's not I Know What You Did Last Summer.
10:04This legacy sequel plays more like a scream wannabe,
10:07with a meta sense of humor and crazy twists.
10:09Please.
10:10No.
10:11No.
10:12Please.
10:12Please, please.
10:15We suppose that could have been a fun direction for this franchise, but the comedy often makes for a totally confused viewing experience.
10:21We give the filmmakers credit for taking big swings with some twists, although they make little sense when taking the other movies into account.
10:27Why would it become a criminal thing?
10:29Stevie, we didn't do anything wrong.
10:31It was an accident, right?
10:32Plus, it's been 28 years, and Freddie Prinze Jr. still can't make his line delivery sound natural.
10:38Sorry, Freddie.
10:39You seem like a nice guy in real life.
10:40So here we are.
10:42It's 1997 all over again.
10:45Isn't that nostalgic?
10:47Number 11.
10:48A Minecraft Movie.
10:49We probably should have seen this one coming.
11:05After all, how do you make a feature-length film based on a widely beloved video game with no plot?
11:10It turns out, you kind of can't.
11:12Of course, we have to credit Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre director Jared Hess for giving it his best shot.
11:17While a Minecraft movie certainly shows flashes of potential, it never quite gets there, feeling less like a creative sandbox and more like a cinematic shrug.
11:25This is my property.
11:26Do you even know what that is?
11:28It's the orb of dominance.
11:30It's a cube.
11:31Okay.
11:33You people seriously have no idea what you're dealing with.
11:36Hand it over and no one gets hurt.
11:38No way.
11:39Okay, we need this thing to get home.
11:41I hate to take a big fat dumperoo on your plans, but you can't get home.
11:45Maybe its mission was just too ambitious.
11:47It needed to connect with both fans of Minecraft and the general uninitiated public.
11:52Whatever the case may be, as with most game-to-movie adaptations, you're best off sticking to the source material.
11:57Lava, ch-ch-ch-chicken.
12:01Steve's lava chicken, yeah, it's tasty as hell.
12:04Ooh, mama, sit and now you're ringing the bell.
12:06Number 10, Him.
12:08We call Him a pretentious Jordan Peele knockoff, but Peele was actually a producer.
12:12Regardless, this was a half-hearted attempt from director Justin Tipping to make the football equivalent of Get Out.
12:18Chase invalidation from strangers, because your father didn't love you.
12:24A horror movie centered on football is an inspired idea, given the physical and mental toll that players endure to go the distance.
12:30Him mistakes gratuitous violence and shock value for social commentary, though, failing to give us any relatable characters.
12:36Then what are you willing to sacrifice?
12:38Everything!
12:40It's a shame, because Marlon Wayans arguably delivers his most transformative performance since Requiem for a Dream.
12:46If only him were even as half as good as that psychological drama.
12:49Hell, even a third!
12:51If Peele wasn't already sore about losing the bidding war for weapons, he probably was after him came out.
12:56You good?
12:57You alright?
12:58Number 9, The Old Guard 2.
13:00Remember how the original Old Guard became a streaming phenomenon during the pandemic?
13:04Five years later, we logged into Netflix and said,
13:07They made a sequel?
13:08Why didn't we hear about this?
13:10Probably because The Old Guard 2 sucks, almost immediately fading into the streaming void.
13:17You know nothing about me and Andy.
13:20Where the first film gripped audiences with its inventive fight choreography and ensemble.
13:24The action here is beyond generic.
13:26Although the cast is back, Charlize Theron's Andy is the only one given much of an arc,
13:30while everyone else feels like a glorified extra.
13:32Wait, I don't want to fight.
13:40The ending sets out The Old Guard 3.
13:42But for a franchise about immortality, there's little life left in it.
13:46Unless we get a prequel explaining how Uma Thurman met Jesus.
13:49That might be interesting.
13:50Number 8, Love Hurt.
13:52Someone drew a Hitler mustache on my yard sign.
13:55Hitler!
13:56Can you believe that?
13:57Have something, Andy.
13:58It's gotta be Jeff Zaks at P-Point messing with me.
14:01I have half a mind to go over there.
14:03And do what, Marv?
14:05Cooking dinner?
14:06The guy has like a black belt.
14:08He could crush you with his thumb.
14:10Blame the post-taken craze for spawning yet another ordinary guy with secret skills knockoff.
14:15But Love Hurt still manages to scrape the bottom of that already well-worn barrel.
14:19K-Hui Kwan, hot off his Oscar win for Everything Everywhere All at Once,
14:23plays Marvin Gable, a seemingly average Joe whose unexpected romance turns into a body count bonanza.
14:29Come on, now.
14:31Should've just told us what we got.
14:32Where is Rose?
14:34And why did you not kill her?
14:38What are you doing?
14:39Hmm?
14:39What are you doing?
14:40I just opened that.
14:41Producer David Leitch's action-packed pedigree, which includes John Wick, Atomic Blonde, and Deadpool 2,
14:47isn't enough to redeem this film's bargain bin choreography, sitcom-level dialogue, and a plot stitched together with cliches.
14:54Critics flattened it to a 19% Rotten Tomatoes score, and audiences stayed away.
14:58The film couldn't even claw back its modest $18 million budget.
15:02I like it here.
15:04Feels good.
15:06It's got a great layout.
15:07Lots of space.
15:09Good life.
15:13What?
15:14Nothing.
15:18You're cute.
15:19Number 7.
15:20Alarum.
15:21Skimming through this movie's synopsis and cast list, we initially said,
15:24Scott Eastwood and Sylvester Stallone play rival spies turned lovers?
15:28Now that would've been an amazing movie.
15:30This is bad luck to leave liquor in a glass.
15:33And you think it's a good idea to drink before a shootout?
15:35I can't think of a better time, in theory.
15:37Upon further inspection, we realized that Eastwood's love interest was actually Willa Fitzgerald.
15:42How do you know she's not playing you?
15:45Even though it would be a perfect ending that you're the dumb poo bear who fell into the honeypot.
15:50Well, that'd be alright if the couple had any chemistry.
15:53They share so little screen time that you'd swear scenes were missing from this thriller,
15:57which makes back-in-action look like any version of Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
16:00Let's rendezvous at the subject house.
16:03Oh, you'll be underwhelmed.
16:05Can you go there now?
16:07I've got something to take care of first, and I'll come.
16:11Stay alive.
16:11Meanwhile, Stallone, once the king of action pictures, spends most of the film in darkly lit rooms,
16:17literally phoning it in.
16:19What?
16:20Come on.
16:21Throw in painfully fake stun work, putrid cinematography, and title sequences sillier than the naked guns.
16:27It's baffling this even got a limited theatrical release.
16:30Number 6.
16:31The Electric State.
16:32It might sound harsh, but over five years removed from Avengers Endgame,
16:46we've come to expect disappointment from Anthony and Joe Russo.
16:50Since their Marvel peak, the directing duo have stumbled from one misfire to the next,
16:55and unfortunately, the Electric State is no exception.
16:58How'd you two meet?
16:59We actually met in the war.
17:01We're supposed to be killing each other?
17:02We tried.
17:05Bots had my whole platoon surrounded, broke my leg in two.
17:09Tin men circled up, finished off the job.
17:12I look up, I see this big dumb construction bot peering down at me.
17:16I close my eyes, get ready to die, and instead he just lifts me up, carries me out.
17:20Their second outing for Netflix even reunites them with MCU regulars Chris Pratt and Anthony Mackie.
17:25But star power can't salvage this overstuffed slog,
17:28which ends up coming across as content, rather than a bonafide movie.
17:33The Russo brothers' bloated behemoth fails to light a spark,
17:36all while burning through a staggering $300 million budget.
17:39Epic in scale, maybe.
17:41But in every other way, it's no shock that the Electric State is better left unplugged.
17:45You got me.
17:47You got harm.
17:49Pretty sure we're not the only ones.
17:52When did you stop being an a**hole?
17:55No, I didn't.
17:56I just got a haircut.
17:57Number five, Tyler Perry's duplicity.
18:00From the guy who won't stop making Madea movies comes...
18:03A drama about police brutality and racial profiling?
18:06Uh-oh.
18:07Hey, back to the see-me.
18:08I drove all the way out here, man.
18:09Come on in.
18:11Come on, let's go.
18:12To be fair, the subject matter is clearly important to Tyler Perry,
18:15who, at first, seems like he might bring some nuance to duplicity.
18:18Between Straw and this film, though, it's clear that Perry doesn't do nuanced.
18:22Be it comedy or drama, everything he touches is over the top.
18:26Duplicity doesn't just deteriorate into a soap opera.
18:28It has a twist so ludicrous that the film winds up being more empathic
18:32toward trigger-happy white officers than the families of black shooting victims.
18:36We're in the area with the least amount of crime.
18:38I think you're complaining, rookie.
18:41You complaining?
18:42No, sir.
18:43It's just...
18:44What? Say it.
18:45That likely wasn't Perry's intent, but we have no idea what his intent was,
18:49even when the confused message is spelled out in the end.
18:51No, I'll, um...
18:53You guys go ahead.
18:56I'll see you at home.
18:58Baby.
19:00Baby, I'll see you at home.
19:02Hmm.
19:06You know the drill, bro.
19:11Let's get that energy open.
19:12Give me where it works, eh?
19:13Yeah.
19:14Come on, baby.
19:14Come on, baby.
19:15Come on, baby.
19:16Come on, baby.
19:17Come on.
19:20You hear that?
19:22You hear that?
19:23Eh?
19:24You hear that?
19:25Wah!
19:26That's for you!
19:26After the debacle that was HBO's The Idol, you'd think that someone might have pumped the brakes on the weekend's screen ambitions.
19:33Instead, we got Hurry Up Tomorrow, a glum, meandering vanity project that proves, once again, that Abel Tesfaye should stick to music.
19:41Despite its stylish cinematography and a few intriguing ideas about fame and celebrity in the 21st century,
19:47the film collapses under the weight of its own self-seriousness.
19:50I'm leaving you.
19:53And I used to think that you were a good person, but now I know that's not true.
20:00Because a good person wouldn't have done that to someone they loved.
20:05And you brought out the worst in me, and you broke me.
20:08Tesfaye might be aiming for arthouse mystique, but what we get is an overwrought mess, with little to no emotional payoff.
20:15Like The Idol, Hurry Up Tomorrow confuses ambiguity with death, and ends up saying almost nothing.
20:21Very slowly.
20:23And I just want to help you, Abel, but you're not here to me!
20:25Shut the f*** up!
20:26Shut the f*** up!
20:27Shut up!
20:29What are you doing?
20:30Number 3.
20:31Star Trek Section 31.
20:32Customer.
20:33I hope it's for a word with you.
20:35Bring him.
20:39What are you doing in my space station?
20:42I'm giving you a chance to get back in on the action on a gun.
20:46Section 31 was supposed to be a bold new frontier for the franchise.
20:50Instead, it feels like a stranded shuttle.
20:52Technically functional, but going absolutely nowhere.
20:55Pish is a sleek spy thriller spin-off, centered around Michelle Yeoh's Philippa Georgiou.
21:00The film instead leans hard on tired tropes, a grim tone, and convoluted lore that even die-hard Trekkies found exhausting.
21:0631 is a black ops division.
21:08Spy work.
21:09It's just a place for people to bend the rules.
21:12Starfleet is here to make sure no one commits murder.
21:16Whatever you believed your mission was, is worse than you thought.
21:21Despite Oscar-winner Yeoh's undeniable screen presence, Section 31 never justifies its existence beyond being a franchise checkbox.
21:29It's as forgettable as any straight-to-streaming footnote.
21:33In other words, it boldly goes where Star Trek has already gone many times before, just with darker lighting and less fun.
21:39You have no idea what you started.
21:46This is gonna be bad.
21:48Five, four, three, two, one.
21:53We survived together.
21:55Number two, Snow White.
21:57You were saying?
22:00It's just, your majesty, people are struggling.
22:05And it may not be much, but when I was young, my parents and I would pick apples.
22:11We'd take them and make pies and then go out into the village.
22:14Pies are luxuries.
22:16They don't need luxuries.
22:17Amazing Spider-Man director Mark Webb's live-action Snow White staggered into cinemas already bleeding from a thousand controversies.
22:24These include, but definitely aren't limited to, Rachel Zegler's perceived jabs at the 1937 classic,
22:30and Israeli star Gal Gadot's participation amid the ongoing war in Gaza.
22:34It's a human.
22:35Well, yes, what did you think I was?
22:37Nothing.
22:38Ghost?
22:39Well, where did you come from?
22:40Are you hungry?
22:41Can we be friends?
22:42What's your name?
22:43Why is everyone being so cordial?
22:44The only human things that come into the forest anymore are bandits who claim to fight the king's name.
22:50None of that would have mattered had the film actually worked, but it doesn't.
22:54Webb's Snow White suffers from uncanny CGI, flat musical numbers, and a script so sanitized,
22:59it strips the fairy tale of every trace of peril or wonder.
23:03Saddled with a jaw-dropping near $300 million budget, Snow White clawed back only a little over $200 million worldwide,
23:11proving that even Disney magic can curdle when the apples rotten to the core.
23:15I believe you're looking for me.
23:17As a matter of fact, I believe it is you who's looking for me.
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23:39Number 1. War of the Worlds
23:42Just when you thought Snow White would be the worst movie of 2025, this disaster piece was delivered via Amazon Prime Air.
23:48How could you, man? How could you? My own son is hacking the government.
23:54You know, for someone who spends their life watching, you sure do miss a lot.
23:57The Razzies may need to create a category for most shameless product placement just to give this film one more reward.
24:02Wait, wait, give him an Amazon gift card for a thousand bucks.
24:0620 years after Steven Spielberg's adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic put the characters at the center of the chaos,
24:11Rich Lee gives us a version that mainly takes place in front of a computer screen,
24:15with the protagonist mostly away from the alien invasion.
24:18So what do you want to do?
24:19We use the data centers they've connected to as bait and plant an old school rabbit virus to infect the data they're eating.
24:25That could work with a charismatic actor, but we're stuck with Ice Cube.
24:28Keep your eyes on me. Focus on me.
24:31Yeah, it was filmed during COVID, although that's no excuse.
24:34We've seen TikTok videos shot during lockdown that were more cinematic than this.
24:39What was the worst movie you watched in 2025?
24:41Let us know in the comments.
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