The 40 Worst Movies Of All Time, According To Rotten Tomatoes
It takes a special kind of terrible film to score zero percent on movie reviews website Rotten Tomatoes’ legendary Tomatometer. We’re not talking about the so-bad-it’s-good kind of flicks here, either. These are the so-bad-it-hurts kind of movies. Don’t believe us? Well, even 2019 punching-bag Cats managed to claw a sad 20 percent score. And the stinkers on this list, including clangers from Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey, and three – three! – from John Travolta, have each been awarded a big fat zero after getting no fewer than 20 reviews. So fasten your seatbelts, kids, it’s going to be a bumpy ride…
40. Stolen (2009)
Star Jon Hamm told website nj.com in 2010 that he thought Stolen was “an interesting switcheroo after Mad Men.” But we wonder if he felt the same way after seeing the finished product. Especially as The New York Times newspaper compared the murder-mystery flick unfavorably to average episodes of plodding TV spin-off Law & Order: SVU. The terrible reviews could also be why director Anders Anderson hasn’t stepped behind the camera since.
39. Constellation (2005)
Writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman can count Gene Wilder as his uncle, and his Constellation boasts a pretty impressive cast. Yep, that’s Gabrielle Union, Zoe Saldana and Lando Calrissian (*ahem* Billy Dee Williams) you can see on the poster. Yet all this means nothing when the final drama is deemed to be a TV movie-style sob-fest.
38. Simon Sez (1999)
Dennis Rodman and Dane Cook… together at last! Presumably, the ex-basketballer was being lined up as a potential future action star with Kevin Elders' misfiring Simon Sez. But the critics… well, the critics were not very nice, let’s put it that way. Magazine Entertainment Weekly called the action-comedy a “shoddy mess” and “bargain basement.” And the picture took less than $300,000 at the box office.
37. Folks! (1992)
The studio spent $15 million bringing Folks! into the world – and most folks probably wish it hadn’t bothered. Even the star power of Tom Selleck couldn’t help Ted Kotcheff’s comedy recover much more than a third of its budget back at the box office. But perhaps that had something to do with the critics calling the film “ageist,” “tasteless” and just downright awful…
