Mark Strong's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Mark Strong makes every movie better. The data says some of them needed way more help than one great glare could give.

#1 is dead last on paper. Half of you will still defend it.

1. 8
   RocknRolla (2008)6.1

   Too fun to be on a worst list. Blame critics.

   Audiences beat 68% of movies with it, critics only 39%. It made $5.7M domestic on a reported $18M budget, so the crowd was tiny but loud.
2. 7
   Sherlock Holmes (2009)6.0

   A $524M worldwide hit sitting this low is legit hilarious.

   Movie.guru score 6.0, Guru's Take 6.6, and 713,194 IMDb votes. Everybody remembers the slow-motion fight planning. Nobody remembers the plot. That's the gap.
3. 6
   Body of Lies (2008)4.8

   DiCaprio and Crowe in a spy movie, and it's homework.

   Ridley Scott, a reported $67.5M to $70M budget, a B-minus CinemaScore and a 4.8 here. Strong walks off with every scene he's in, and that's the problem.
4. 5
   John Carter (2012)4.6

   Underrated, and the Guru's Take says so out loud.

   A reported $306.6M budget against $73.1M domestic made it a punchline. Score 4.6, but a B+ CinemaScore says the people who showed up had a good time.
5. 4
   Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)4.6

   The sequel that forgot what made the first one fun.

   Guru's Take matches the score at 4.6. Metacritic 44, $410.9M worldwide. Julianne Moore's retro diner lair is the best idea in it. Strong deserved more pages.
6. 3
   Robin Hood (2010)4.0

   Robin Hood with no fun. Just mud and tax policy.

   A reported $155M to $237M budget for a prequel to the part you actually wanted. Rotten Tomatoes 43%, movie.guru 4.0. Strong's villain is the only one enjoying himself.
7. 2
   Shadow Force (2025)3.1

   The one on this list you didn't know existed.

   $3,933,483 domestic on a reported $40M budget and only 6,114 IMDb votes. Critics beat just 11% of movies with it. Kerry Washington and Omar Sy deserved better.
8. 1
   Green Lantern (2011)2.4

   Dead last, and Strong was the only thing working.

   2.4 on movie.guru, 25% on Rotten Tomatoes, a reported $200M budget. Strong plays it like Shakespeare. Everything around him glows green and says nothing.

$217.83 says someone in the comments calls John Carter a masterpiece before anyone even mentions Green Lantern.

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