The worst movies of the century so far, ranked
Some movies are so bad, they're good. These are not those films.
These are the lowest-rated flicks — with at least 10 critic reviews — since 2000, according to the movie review aggregator Metacritic.
First up: A tie for 45 in "Silent Hill: Revelation 3D." (Metascore: 16)
This "Silent Hill" sequel — featuring "Game of Thrones" star Kit Harington — is "the nadir of senseless seasonal cinema," per Boxoffice Magazine.
45 (tie). "I Know Who Killed Me" (Metascore: 16)
Starring Lindsay Lohan, this 2007 thriller is a "gruesome whodunit that's missing more than a few brain cells," says The Austin Chronicle.
45 (tie). "The Last Face" (Metascore: 16)
This 2016 drama — starring Charlize Theron and Javier Bardem — is "as egregious as filmmaking gets," according to The Wrap.
45 (tie). "Urban Legends: Final Cut" (Metascore: 16)
The "Urban Legend" sequel is "just plain bad," per the Baltimore Sun.
45 (tie). "Deuces Wild" (Metascore: 16)
Starring Stephen Dorff and James Franco, "Deuces Wild" "desperately wants to be a music video circa 1983," according to The New York Times.
45 (tie). "FeardotCom" (Metascore: 16)
This 2002 horror film is a "depraved, incoherent, instantly disposable piece of hackery," according to The Washington Post.
36 (tie). "Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2" (Metascore: 15)
This "Blair Witch Project" sequel is "just another bad horror film with inadequate young actors chased around a big house by something," according to Film.com.
36 (tie). "College" (Metascore: 15)
This 2008 comedy is a "tedious, by-the-numbers raunch-fest that exists strictly because it can," according to The Los Angeles Times.
36 (tie). "House of the Dead" (Metascore: 15)
Based on the arcade game of the same name, "House of the Dead" is "bafflingly bad to the point of being oddly charming in its brain dead naïveté," says The Austin Chronicle.
36 (tie). "Disaster Movie" (Metascore: 15)
This 2008 parody comedy is a "horrific waste of time, money and oxygen," per Empire.
36 (tie). "In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" (Metascore: 15)
Inspired by the video-game series "Dungeon Siege," this 2007 fantasy is "completely undone by its terrible screenplay, inept direction, oppressive musical score and muddy visual palette," says The Hollywood Reporter.
36 (tie). "Kangaroo Jack" (Metascore: 15)
A moderate box-office success, "Kangaroo Jack" is a "desert of shrill juvenile jokes and clanging chase sequences," according to Entertainment Weekly.
36 (tie). "The Cookout" (Metascore: 15)
The last film to feature Farrah Fawcett, "The Cookout" is a "painfully unfunny, would-be comedy," according to The Hollywood Reporter.
36 (tie). "Tomcats" (Metascore: 15)
Starring Jerry O'Connell, Shannon Elizabeth and Jake Busey, this 2001 comedy is "grotesque and ugly," per LA Weekly.
36 (tie). "Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Movie" (Metascore: 15)
The Oregonian called this 2004 animated film a "shabby, joyless, 90-minute slab of 'advertainment.'"
29 (tie). "From Justin to Kelly" (Metascore: 14)
This 2003 romantic comedy — starring the finalists from the first season of "American Idol" — is "more than awful, more than dreadful, and easily the worst beach movie ever made," per the New York Daily News.
29 (tie). "Kung Pow! Enter the Fist" (Metascore: 14)
This 2002 comedy is "hopelessly inane, humorless and under-inspired," according to the Los Angeles Times.
29 (tie). "The In Crowd" (Metascore: 14)
"'The In Crowd' is nothing but a deadly dull business," says The Austin Chronicle.
29 (tie). "Rollerball" (Metascore: 14)
A remake of the 1975 original, "Rollerball" is "remarkably empty, remarkably noisy, remarkably pleasureless. It's unwatchable," says The San Francisco Chronicle.
29 (tie). "Glitter" (Metascore: 14)
Starring Mariah Carey as an aspiring singer, "Glitter" is a "heart-wrenching debacle from the starting gun," according to Village Voice.
29 (tie). "A Little Bit of Heaven" (Metascore: 14)
Starring Kate Hudson, this 2011 romantic comedy is "one long biopsy of pure horror: the tumors of sentimentality and bad acting metastasize everywhere," according to The Guardian.
29 (tie). "Dungeons & Dragons" (Metascore: 14)
Based on the "Dungeons & Dragons" game, this 2000 fantasy "manages to be both hackneyed and convoluted," per Reader.
25 (tie). "Daddy Day Camp" (Metascore: 13)
"'Daddy Day Camp' is a perfect family film for the blind and deaf," says Film Threat.
25 (tie). "Down to You" (Metascore: 13)
This 2000 romantic comedy, starring Julia Styles and Freddie Prinze Jr., is "one of those puppy-love movies that make you feel like you're slowly drowning," per LA Weekly.
25 (tie). "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" (Metascore: 13)
The sequel to "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" "pushes you deeper into your theater seat until you've been completely subdued by all the nothingness it has to offer," says The Wrap.
25 (tie). "Freddy Got Fingered" (Metascore: 13)
A winner of five Golden Raspberry Awards, this 2001 comedy is "so awful it qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment," according to the New York Post.
19 (tie). "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" (Metascore: 12)
A massive box-office failure, "The Adventures of Pluto Nash" is a "headache-inducing mess without direction or purpose," says the A.V. Club.
19 (tie). "The Master of Disguise" (Metascore: 12)
Despite being a box-office success, "The Master of Disguise" is "an unbearably tedious and unfunny comedy," per the New York Post.
19 (tie). "The Emoji Movie" (Metascore: 12)
This 2017 animated comedy is a "soul-crushing disaster because it lacks humor, wit, ideas, visual style, compelling performances, a point of view or any other distinguishing characteristic that would make it anything but a complete waste of your time," per The Wrap.
19 (tie). "Strange Wilderness" (Metascore: 12)
Starring Steve Zahn and Jonah Hill, this 2008 dark comedy "manages to grow more idiotic by the scene," says Film Threat.
19 (tie). "Left Behind" (Metascore: 12)
Based on the novel of the same name, "Left Behind" — starring Nicolas Cage — is "biblical in its silliness," according to Vulture.
19 (tie). "Slackers" (Metascore: 12)
Starring Jason Schwartzman and Jason Segel, this 2002 comedy "stinks like a cat box that hasn't been changed in a hundred years," according to The Washington Post.
14 (tie). "Nine Lives" (Metascore: 11)
This 2016 comedy, about a father who has his mind trapped inside his daughter's cat, "could change the most avid cat fancier into a kitty hater," according to Rolling Stone.
14 (tie). "Date Movie" (Metascore: 11)
This 2006 parody of romantic comedies "doesn't contain a single laugh," per the A.V. Club.
14 (tie). "King's Ransom" (Metascore: 11)
Starring Anthony Anderson, this 2005 comedy is an "incoherent mess of a film," according to The New York Times.
14 (tie). "3 Strikes" (Metascore: 11)
This 2000 comedy is a "dumb and sloppy movie," says Salon.
14 (tie). "Scary Movie 5" (Metascore: 11)
The fifth "Scary Movie" is "so massively unenjoyable, a hate crime against cinema, a ringing indictment of the depths commercialism will go to in search of the lowest common denominator," says Film.com.
13. "Whipped" (Metascore: 10)
Starring Amanda Peet, this 2000 comedy is a "bottom-feeding monstrosity of a comedy," per The New York Times.
7 (tie). "Alone in the Dark" (Metascore: 9)
Loosely based on the video-game series of the same name, "Alone in the Dark" is "so mind-blowingly horrible that it teeters on the edge of cinematic immortality," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
7 (tie). "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000" (Metascore: 9)
Based on the novel of the same, "Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000" is "the worst movie in living memory," says Time.
7 (tie). "Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star" (Metascore: 9)
This 2011 comedy, starring Nick Swardson, is "one of the most astonishingly unfunny films of this or any other year," says Variety.
7 (tie). "Dirty Love" (Metascore: 9)
The recipient of a the Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Picture, "Dirty Love" — starring Jenny McCarthy — "clings to the gutter like a rat in garbage," per The New York Times.
7 (tie). "Meet the Spartans" (Metascore: 9)
Although this 2008 parody film had box-office success, "Meet the Spartans" was roasted for being "witless, tasteless, formless spoof," by Village Voice.
7 (tie). "Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2" (Metascore: 9)
The sequel to 1999's "Baby Geniuses" is "the most perversely unnecessary sequel in recent memory," according to the A.V. Club.
6. "The Haunting of Sharon Tate" (Metascore: 8)
This 2019 thriller, based on the Sharon Tate murder, is "appalling from start to finish," according to RogerEbert.com.
3 (tie). "Miss March" (Metascore: 7)
"'Miss March' is ... the biggest pile of crap I've seen in ages," says Salon.
3 (tie). "Screwed" (Metascore: 7)
Starring Dave Chappelle and Norm Macdonald, this 2000 comedy "gives stupid, vulgar comedy a bad name," says The San Francisco Chronicle.
3 (tie). "The Hottie & the Nottie" (Metascore: 7)
This 2008 romantic comedy — starring Paris Hilton — is "preposterous, disingenuous, remarkably unfunny and genuinely distasteful," per TVGuide Magazine.
2. "National Lampoon's Gold Diggers" (Metascore: 6)
This 2003 dark comedy about a pair of friends who marry older women to inherit their fortunes when they die is "so filled with contemptible, ugly and unfunny characters that it is physically difficult to watch," according to The San Francisco Chronicle.
1. "The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)" (Metascore: 5)
The third film in the "Human Centipede" series is "desperately, depressingly unclever," says The Wrap.