Tom Hanks's 8 Lowest-Scoring Movies

Tom Hanks doesn't really make bad movies. He makes movies where everyone around him makes bad choices. Here's his bottom 8 by movie.guru score, receipts included.

Number 1 is a camera that never moves. Some of you will defend it.

1. 8
   Elvis (2022)7.5

   Elvis lands here because Hanks played the villain.

   Austin Butler did the hip work. Hanks did a mystery accent under a pound of prosthetics. Audiences still loved it: A− CinemaScore, $288.7M worldwide on a reported $85M budget.
2. 7
   Cast Away (2000)7.5

   A volleyball out-acted half of Hollywood that year.

   Tied with Elvis at 7.5, which is wrong. Hanks talks to sports equipment for an hour and it made $429.6M worldwide. The B CinemaScore is an insult to Wilson.
3. 6
   You've Got Mail (1998)6.1

   He's the big-box bookstore guy and we're supposed to swoon.

   Nora Ephron and Meg Ryan sell it anyway, and $250.8M worldwide says dial-up flirting worked. A 58 on Metacritic says critics noticed he's kind of a corporate shark.
4. 5
   The Terminal (2004)6.0

   Critics flew coach on this one. They were wrong.

   61% on Rotten Tomatoes, but a 7.4 on IMDb from 544,065 votes. Hanks camping at an airport gate is way cozier than a Spielberg airport movie has any right to be.
5. 4
   Cloud Atlas (2012)5.3

   Messy, overstuffed, and secretly the most underrated thing here.

   Three directors, a reported budget up to $146.7M, and just $27.1M domestic. The C+ CinemaScore is fair. The Guru's Take is still 6.7, way above its 5.3.
6. 3
   Angels & Demons (2009)4.3

   Better than The Da Vinci Code. Low bar, cleared.

   Robert Langdon speed-walks through Rome solving riddles while Ewan McGregor looks suspicious. Critics gave it 36%. It still pulled $485.9M worldwide because every dad bought a ticket.
7. 2
   The Da Vinci Code (2006)4.1

   Biggest hit on this list, and it's mostly a lecture.

   $801.3M worldwide, 25% on Rotten Tomatoes. Ian McKellen is having a blast. Everyone else is explaining paintings to each other in very dark rooms.
8. 1
   Here (2024)3.5

   Lowest score, but the most interesting failure on the list.

   One camera, one living room, a lot of de-aging. Only $16M worldwide on a reported $45 to 50M budget. Guru's Take is 4.3, because at least nobody else tried this.

$726.41 says the first comment is someone yelling that Cast Away doesn't belong on this list.

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