The Worst Reviewed Movies of 2025

I don’t cognize if you’ve heard astir this, but immoderate bully movies came retired this year. Did you spot Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic, Sinners? Or Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating passionateness project, Frankenstein? Or the hilarious but besides heartbreaking afterlife dramedy, Eternity? You astir apt should person if you haven’t, but that’s not wherefore we’re here. We’re present to speech astir the other broadside of the coin – the 2025 movies that didn’t conscionable neglect to marque the grade, but made falling connected their faces an artform unto itself.

For this list, we’re namechecking movies that received a 2 oregon 3 connected IGN’s reappraisal scale. Nothing got a 1 this twelvemonth (praise be), and though we did spot a fewer 4s, similar The Electric State, Deep Cover, and Eddington, we decided to truly scrape the bottommost of the barrel. So if you privation to cognize what movies to debar (or possibly question retired if you’re morbidly curious), let’s dive into IGN’s worst reviewed movies of 2025!

Atrocious Actioners

Jackie Chan is known crossed the globe arsenic 1 of the champion martial arts stars to ever grace the metallic screen, but adjacent legends don’t ever bat a thousand. Panda Plan from manager Luan Zhang is 1 of Chan’s worst films; helium stars arsenic a fictionalized mentation of himself who has to perpetrate a heist to prevention zoo pandas from an service of mercenaries. With unspeakable VFX and lifeless combat scenes, Panda Plan was described arsenic “little much than a mediocre imitation” of Chan’s erstwhile films by IGN reviewer Chase Hutchinson.

But helium wasn’t the lone enactment prima to travel up abbreviated successful 2025, with Jason Statham starring successful the woeful David Ayer film, A Working Man. Based connected the Levon Cade caller bid from Chuck Dixon, A Working Man is simply a paint-by-numbers matter that doesn’t instrumentality vantage of Statham’s charm oregon carnal skills. Reviewer Hanna Ines Flint said that Statham is “surrounded by a cohort of undercooked villains successful what amounts to a colossal discarded of an enactment movie budget.”

Viola Davis besides got successful connected the enactment with G20, an Amazon Prime Original from manager Patricia Riggen. Starring Davis arsenic United States President Danielle Sutton, G20 is simply a “terrorists versus the Prez” conveyance successful the vein of Air Force One that unluckily falls into galore of the emblematic made-for-streaming movie traps. Reviewer Jesse Hassenger said that G20 was lacking successful “exciting oregon well-staged action,” alternatively featuring “thriller cliches and unconvincing governmental details.”

In the aforesaid vein is Shadow Force, a bare-bones Joe Carnahan actioner starring Kerry Washington and Omar Sy that someway received a theatrical release. This 1 is hard to describe, due to the fact that the crippled and characters are truthful thinly sketched that they mightiness arsenic good beryllium composed connected array napkins. Reviewer Devan Suber called Shadow Force “a movie arsenic vague arsenic its title,” adding that it “doesn’t springiness you immoderate existent crushed to attraction astir anyone oregon thing that happens onscreen.” Ouch.

Horrendous Horror

COVID-19 themed movies haven’t mostly been wide loved, and Don’t Log Off didn’t alteration that trend. A screenlife movie successful the aforesaid benignant arsenic Searching, Don’t Log Off stars Ariel Winter successful a communicative astir a radical of friends trying to fig retired what happened to 1 of them that disappears from a video call. Reviewer Steven Nguyen Scaife recovered it repetitive and tiring, penning that “both the COVID-era mounting and the computer-screen presumption of Don’t Log Off amusement flickers of promise, but this fearfulness movie has nary clever ideas for utilizing either one.”

Another gimmicky fearfulness movie came from societal media personage Kris Collins and Celina Myers; House connected Eden is simply a supernatural recovered footage movie that’s yet different uninspired knock-off of The Blair Witch Project. Reviewer Matt Donato was profoundly unimpressed, saying the movie is “hapless and nonsensical successful its structure” and is “built from blocks stolen from amended and much accomplished movies.”

Further anemic fearfulness films from this twelvemonth see I Heart Willie, a nationalist domain Mickey Mouse slasher based connected the Steamboat Willie animated abbreviated that Matt Donato said “flimsily sets up inexpensive flesh-flaying thrills that ne'er stray acold from convention,” and Ick, a sci-fi fearfulness drama astir a subject teacher who has to combat a parasitic alien works that reviewer Shannon Miller said is “not remotely haunting capable to marque for a decent fearfulness movie oregon anyplace adjacent comic capable to beryllium a bully comedy.”

I reviewed The Strangers - Chapter 2, the 2nd successful a planned trilogy of slasher films from manager Renny Harlin. Despite Madelaine Petsch doing what she tin successful the pb role, the movie is devoid of tension, thrills, oregon affectional resonance. It mightiness beryllium marginally amended than Chapter 1, but I described Chapter 2 arsenic “ultimately conscionable arsenic slapdash arsenic its predecessor.”

The biggest turkey successful the fearfulness class this twelvemonth is Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2, the latest video crippled adaptation to beryllium lambasted by critics. The archetypal movie wasn’t that large either, but the sequel reaches caller lows with a shoddy publication penned by bid creator Scott Cawthon that’s much acrophobic with spoon-feeding easter eggs to franchise fans than doing thing dramatically satisfying. It’s a shame, due to the fact that manager Emma Tammi (who returns from the archetypal movie) isn’t an untalented filmmaker; her minimalist fearfulness movie, The Wind, that she directed earlier becoming the custodian of the FNAF films, is simply a beauteous decent spooky western. But her skills aren’t connected show successful Five Nights astatine Freddy’s 2, which Matt Donato described arsenic a “bare minimum sequel.”

Star Trek to Nowhere

Holding the ignominious grant of being the lone movie rated a 2 by IGN this twelvemonth is Star Trek: Section 31. Originally developed arsenic a spin-off bid from Star Trek: Discovery for Michelle Yeoh’s character, Philippa Georgiou, Section 31 was reworked into a movie aft accumulation issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ultimately, neither manager Olatunde Osunsanmi oregon screenwriter Craig Sweeny wrangled thing of worth retired of the film, which is nominally astir Georgiou arsenic an evil-emperor-turned-secret-agent who joins a squad of whoevers to retrieve a superweapon earlier atrocious guys tin usage it to destruct the universe… oregon something. It’s really benignant of hard to follow, but trying isn’t adjacent worthy your time, with reviewer Jordan Hoffman describing the movie arsenic “nothing but a lousy, uninteresting caper picture” that’s devoid of each the qualities fans expect from the Star Trek franchise.

Did you cognize this technically counts arsenic the 14th Trek movie? I’m definite by this clip adjacent year, cipher but Paramount volition adjacent retrieve that.

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Carlos Morales writes novels, articles, and Mass Effect essays. You tin travel his fixations connected Twitter.