Denzel Washington's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Even Denzel has a basement. These are his 8 lowest movie.guru scores, and that basement still beats most actors' penthouses.

Number 1 has the lowest score, and it's the one you'll defend hardest.

1. 8
   Man on Fire (2004)6.4

   The critics were wrong, and 427,000 IMDb voters agree.

   A 39% on Rotten Tomatoes against a 7.7 on IMDb. That gap is the whole story. Tony Scott shook the camera, critics shook their heads, audiences kept rewatching.
2. 7
   The Equalizer (2014)6.3

   A guy timing fights on a stopwatch deserves better than 6.3.

   It made $101.5 million domestic. The first hour is a lot of Denzel reading novels at a diner, but the payoff earned that 7.3 on IMDb.
3. 6
   Déjà Vu (2006)6.1

   The time travel makes zero sense. Nobody cares.

   Val Kilmer explains a time window with a straight face. Only $64 million domestic, but $180.6 million worldwide says the rest of the planet got the memo.
4. 5
   The Magnificent Seven (2016)5.8

   Denzel in a cowboy hat carries six other guys.

   Reported budget up to $107 million, domestic gross $93.4 million. Chris Pratt does Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke broods, and 5.8 is fair for a western this tidy.
5. 4
   The Equalizer 2 (2018)5.6

   The sequel nobody asked for outgrossed the original at home.

   $102.1 million domestic, a hair over the first one. The Guru's Take is a 5.0 because the plot wanders for an hour waiting for the action to show up.
6. 3
   2 Guns (2013)5.2

   Denzel and Mark Wahlberg bicker. That's the movie. It's fine.

   Critics and audiences landed in the same spot for a 5.2. A B+ CinemaScore is the polite way of saying everyone shrugged on the way to the parking lot.
7. 2
   Safe House (2012)5.1

   Highest grosser on this list, second lowest score. Classic.

   $208.1 million worldwide, the most of these eight. Ryan Reynolds spends the movie getting outsmarted, the camera spends it shaking, and the 5.1 shows up anyway.
8. 1
   The Book of Eli (2010)4.9

   Dead last at 4.9, and it's better than that.

   Denzel walks a gray wasteland guarding a book while Gary Oldman wants it. 365,067 IMDb voters average 6.8. The Guru's Take is 5.5, and the gray filter costs points.

$1,309 says one of these is on cable right now and you watch the last 40 minutes anyway.

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