The 8 Worst Billion-Dollar Movies

Crossing a billion dollars takes a lot of explosions. Getting a good score takes a script. These eight skipped the script.

Number one made $1.11 billion and scored a 3.0. Both of those are real.

1. 8
   Aquaman (2018)5.6

   Looks like a lava lamp, plays like a lore wiki.

   $1.15 billion worldwide and a 5.7 movie.guru score, dead average. Momoa grins through 143 minutes of neon sea creatures while everyone else recites Atlantis history at him.
2. 7
   Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999)5.0

   Natalie Portman's costumes got more effort than the dialogue.

   $1.05 billion worldwide and a 5.2 movie.guru score. 136 minutes, and way too many of them are hologram meetings.
3. 6
   Alice in Wonderland (2010)4.7

   The Red Queen's giant head is the only joke that works.

   $1.03 billion worldwide on a reported $200 million budget. 108 minutes of Johnny Depp in orange hair, and audiences only rank it above 52% of notable movies.
4. 5
   Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)4.3

   The dinosaurs left the park, and so did the fun.

   $1.31 billion worldwide and a 4.6 movie.guru score, below average. Jeff Goldblum shows up, says something ominous, and leaves. Honestly, same.
5. 4
   Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)4.1

   Michael Bay leveled Chicago and it's still boring.

   Critics rank it above 20% of notable movies. Audiences gave it an A CinemaScore anyway and paid $1.12 billion worldwide for 154 minutes of robots and rubble.
6. 3
   Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)3.9

   Ian McShane deserved a better ship and a better script.

   A reported $410.6 million budget, $1.05 billion worldwide, and a 4.1 movie.guru score. Penélope Cruz and Johnny Depp spend 137 minutes trading quips that never land.
7. 2
   Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)4.4

   A $1.08 billion movie that feels like a group project.

   A 3.8 movie.guru score, and audiences rank it above just 23% of notable movies. Adam Driver is great. Almost nothing around him holds together for 141 minutes.
8. 1
   Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)2.9

   Robot dinosaurs, and it still found a way to be boring.

   A 3.0 movie.guru score, and critics rank it above just 8% of notable movies. It made $1.11 billion anyway. 165 minutes, the longest here, and every one of them is loud.

$87.61 says you saw number one in 3D and still can't name a single robot from it.

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