00:00Rotten Tomatoes' high scores are viewed like gold dust in the movie industry,
00:04while its negative ones can genuinely sink a film before it's even come out.
00:08Because of how the site works, it's actually very hard for a picture to get 0%.
00:12That would mean that every major published review of a movie would have to be negative.
00:16In short, it means everyone has to hate it.
00:19It might be difficult for this to happen, but it's not impossible.
00:23Oh, oh god.
00:25We've rounded up the ones that cost the most money, where budget info was available,
00:28in an effort to find out which studios wasted the largest amount of cash on a film that nobody liked.
00:34I'm Ewan, this is War Culture, and here are the most expensive movies with 0% on Rotten Tomatoes.
00:39Dark Tide. Budget? $25 million.
00:43Clearly, there is only one good shark movie, because between Jaws 4, The Meg, and this,
00:50well, The Meg is the highest scorer of them all.
00:52That is saying something, and I love me some Jason Statham.
00:55Starring Halle Berry as a one-time shark expert, Dark Tide sees her dip her toes back into the water,
01:01for the first time since a member of a team was killed by a shark in a terrible, terrible accident.
01:06Clearly, that person must have done something really bad to piss off that shark,
01:10because FYI, sharks are really chill in real life.
01:13But hey, what could possibly go wrong?
01:15You got Halle Berry, you got a shark.
01:17Well, in the film, they get attacked by sharks,
01:19and in the real world, the film made zero money, and made everyone very, very cross.
01:24Produced on a $25 million budget, Dark Tide pulled in just $1.1 million at the box office.
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01:48Red Line. Budget? $26 million.
01:52Not to be confused with the 2009 Japanese film with the same name,
01:56which has a much healthier 70% to boast on the website,
01:59Red Line, from 2007, borrows its name from the working title of The Fast and the Furious.
02:05To be honest, it basically borrows the plot of those movies too,
02:09but with less Vin Diesel, which means less familiar, and coronas, and cool barbecues.
02:14It's not great.
02:15Nadia Bjorlin, who has been credited in a total of seven films since 2002,
02:19plays a skilled auto mechanic named Natasha in the movie.
02:23She's also a talented musician and a street racer.
02:26Ooh, look at that CV.
02:27But it wasn't a B for Natasha.
02:29Reviewers saw right through this cheap imitation,
02:31and were quick to land Bastard Line for its bad acting and paper-thin plot.
02:35I mean, for Malia, it ain't.
02:38Highlander 2 The Quickening.
02:39Budget? $34 million.
02:42Highlander 2 The Quickening, from 1991,
02:45which acts as the follow-on to the 1986 sci-fi classic Highlander.
02:50The film stars Christopher Lambert and Sean Connery as two immortals who can only be killed by decapitation.
02:56Lambert and Connery probably would have liked to decapitate their agents after signing them on for the sequel,
03:00though, because it was quite rubbish.
03:02The first Highlander, for those who don't know, ended perfectly.
03:06Lambert's character Connery had defeated his nemesis and claimed the grand prize as the last immortal left standing.
03:12Stick a fork in it, folks. It's done.
03:13But no, it wasn't done.
03:15It was messed with mercilessly by the film's investors,
03:19who pumped an eye-watering 34 million smackaroos into this car wreck,
03:23changing huge parts of the established canon.
03:25As a result, Highlander 2 is regarded as one of the worst films of all time.
03:30This is a real shame, as the first one is still beloved to this day.
03:35However, when it comes to good Highlander movies, well, there could only be one.
03:39A Thousand Words. Budget? $40 million.
03:42Eddie Murphy is great.
03:44Whether in films like 48 Hours, Shrek, or Beverly Hills Cop, or with his stand-up,
03:49a lot of people have Murphy to thank for a lot of good times.
03:52So maybe we shouldn't be so hard on him for this thinker of a movie from 2012.
03:56To give A Thousand Words some credit, its premise is actually quite intriguing.
04:01Murphy plays a literary agent whose liberal use of language often gets him into trouble.
04:06He is then placed under a curse where he has a limit to the number of words he can use,
04:11forcing him to choose what he says very, very carefully.
04:14It's basically an Eddie Murphy movie where Eddie Murphy doesn't talk that much,
04:18which you don't have to be a genius to know that's not going to work.
04:20Unfortunately, not enough words were said to draw attention to the movie itself,
04:24as it drew just $22 million on a $40 million budget,
04:29and got a big fat zero on the review aggregator website.
04:32Pinocchio. Budget? $40 to $45 million.
04:36This is not the Disney original, nor its modern-day remake, nor the Guillermo del Toro adaptation,
04:42but rather an Italian-language version of the story which released in 2002.
04:46This Pinocchio should have turned out a lot better than it actually did.
04:50It was directed by and starred Roberto Benigni,
04:53who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in Life is Beautiful.
04:57Sadly, things turned out very ugly for Benigni when his movie was dubbed into English.
05:03The original version of Pinocchio 2002 went down alright in the director's native land,
05:07when it absolutely perished when it made the journey to the US.
05:11Benigni's voice was dubbed by actor Brecken Meyer, who was 22 years younger than him.
05:16This jarred massively, and the critics were not pleased.
05:20Pinocchio 2002 ultimately went down as a very expensive vanity project for the director,
05:26with a budget of anywhere between $40 to $45 million spent on earning a big fat zero on Rotten Tomatoes.
05:33The Ridiculous Six. Budget? $60 million.
05:36Most of this 2015 Netflix production's whopping $60 million budget must have gone on the cast,
05:42because it is full to the gills with star power.
05:45Terry Crews, Jorge Garcia, Taylor Lautner, Rob Schneider, Luke Wilson, and Adam Sandler,
05:51who also wrote The Thing, all play half-brothers in this comedy western
05:55about their siblings attempting to reunite with their outlaw father.
05:58While their own daddy-o might be guilty of armed robbery,
06:01the film committed the ultimate crime of being bad.
06:04Critics don't tend to take kindly to Sandler's comedy,
06:06but this is his only movie on the site to receive a full-on dud,
06:10although Jack and Jill came incredibly close with 3%,
06:13and at least that gave us the gift of Don Cachino.
06:16Ballistic. X vs. Sever. Budget? $70 million.
06:22This film should score 0% just for its title.
06:25Like, what on earth does that even mean?
06:27Yeah, X and Sever are the names of the characters,
06:29but the audience doesn't know that before the film starts,
06:32and furthermore, they shouldn't care.
06:34And all of this is before we get into the film itself,
06:37which is about opposing secret agents Antonio Banderas, X,
06:40and Lucy Liu, Sever, teaming up to fight a common foe.
06:44Despite having two very cool stars as its leads,
06:47its lack of wit, charm, and its mind-bogglingly stupid action sequences
06:50meant that very few people were interested in seeing it when it came out in 2002.
06:55It made just $20 million back from its $70 million budget,
06:59a staggeringly low figure for a movie with two major stars of Banderas and Loose Calibre in it.
07:05As for the critics, Ballistic. X vs. Sever has 119 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes,
07:11more than any other that has 0%.
07:14That officially makes it the worst reviewed movie across the entire platform,
07:19which is so incredible, it's kind of impressive.
07:22The Nutcracker in 3D. Budget? $90 million.
07:26Directed by Russian cinema royalty Andrei Konchalovsky,
07:30The Nutcracker in 3D is an adaptation of the beloved Christmas ballet in, well, 3D.
07:35It's a classic story. Young girl receives a magical doll.
07:38Doll turns out to be a prince. Girl and prince save his kingdom from a giant rat.
07:42You know, everyday, normal, holiday, fun stuff for the family.
07:45Unless your auntie is a film critic, in which case she probably never speaks to you ever again.
07:50Professional reviewers hated The Nutcracker in 3D, calling it, quote,
07:55Misguided, Misconceived, and Misbegotten.
07:58Criticism was levelled at Konchalovsky for messing with its simple story,
08:01and for it also being unsuitable for children.
08:04While a more adult version of The Nutcracker could have worked,
08:06critics felt like this piece fell flat in every aspect possible.
08:10This was not good news for the film's financiers, who put an ungodly amount of money into it.
08:15At $90 million, its budget is the largest on this list by far.
08:19Oof. Big oof, in fact.
08:21The biggest of oofs.
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