The 25 worst action movies of all time

- Director: Isaac Florentine
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 20
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 89 minutes

The A.V. Club called "Assassin's Bullet" a "shameless, dismal vanity project." The film, which touts Christian Slater and Donald Sutherland as its stars, actually devotes most of its runtime to Elika Portnoy, who conceived and funded the film, and who plays a rogue assassin obsessed with tracking down international criminals, even as she is being hunted by the FBI. A nonsensical narrative and gratuitous violence define the film which earned very little applause from audiences or critics.

- Director: Wych Kaosayananda
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 19
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 91 minutes

Antonio Banderas and Lucy Liu played opposing secret agents who must join forces to fight a common enemy in "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever." Critics were not the only ones unimpressed with the flick as audiences also failed to show up in theaters, resulting in a $19.9 million worldwide box office gross against a $70 million budget.

- Director: Michael Gottlieb
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 18
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 84 minutes

A thoroughly '90s movie, "Mr. Nanny" stars Hulk Hogan as a wrestler-turned-nanny who is charged with protecting two energetic children from a greedy criminal. Despite the fact that it's aimed at younger audiences, critics still slammed the film for its low-production values and cheesy humor. Still, the movie managed to pull in $4.3 million at the box office.

- Director: Andrew Sipes
- Stacker score: 30.4
- Metascore: 13
- IMDb user rating: 4.3
- Runtime: 91 minutes

Supermodel Cindy Crawford tried her hand at acting as a civil law attorney who requires the protection of a cop played by William Baldwin in "Fair Game," a film that remains her sole starring role—perhaps due in part to the project's disappointing $11.5 million domestic gross against a $50 million budget. Crawford has since said she never wanted to appear in the movie but still does not regret doing so.

- Director: Farhad Mann
- Stacker score: 29.3
- Metascore: 29
- IMDb user rating: 2.5
- Runtime: 93 minutes

The unwanted sequel to a movie that was based on a Stephen King story, "Lawnmower Man 2" sees a resurrected Jobe being tasked with creating a computer chip that would rule all of the computers in the world, while a group of teenage hackers tries to stop him. The cyberpunk film features some truly terrible acting as well as low-budget special effects, which, when combined, result in a ridiculous film that's "more boring than watching grass grow."

- Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak
- Stacker score: 29.3
- Metascore: 17
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 96 minutes

Producers at 20th Century Fox hoped to duplicate the commercial success of their first "Street Fighter" film with a reboot, albeit 15 years later. However, the Kristin Kreuk-led "Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li" garnered its predecessor's poor critical reception without its box office prosperity. The film fizzled upon release with only $4.7 million in eighth place and an ultimate worldwide total of just $12.8 million.

- Director: C.B. Harding
- Stacker score: 28.8
- Metascore: 17
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Larry the Cable Guy stars in "Delta Farce," a comedy-action flick about a group of National Guardsmen bound for Iraq who wind up in Mexico and "liberate" a small village run by bandits. Packed with off-color jokes and un-funny sequences, the movie took a lot of criticism for poking fun at the military while plenty of American soldiers were still risking their lives and dying overseas.

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 28.8
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 127 minutes

"In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale" is directed by Uwe Boll, who has appeared elsewhere on this list. It stars Jason Statham as a man in a pseudo-medieval kingdom who sets out to rescue his kidnapped wife and avenge his son's death. The movie boasts Boll's largest production budget at $60 million—a travesty considering it only managed to pull $4.8 million in the U.S. Despite its commercial and critical failure, the director has since gone on to make two sequels that were delegated directly to home video.

- Director: Preston A. Whitmore II
- Stacker score: 28.3
- Metascore: 30
- IMDb user rating: 2.2
- Runtime: 95 minutes

In "Crossover" the lives of two gifted athletes, played by Wesley Jonathan and Anthony Mackie, are changed forever when they take a trip to Los Angeles and attempt to beat the city's streetball champions. Similar to "Supercross," the sports-action movie is just a compilation of overused tropes crammed into a poorly written story line and brought to life with subpar filmmaking techniques. All in all, it's an uninspiring tale, and the 95 minutes you'd invest in watching it would be better spent elsewhere.

- Director: Olivier Megaton
- Stacker score: 28.3
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 148 minutes

Here's the premise of "The Last Days of American Crime": In a last-ditch effort to put an end to terrorism and rising crime rates, the American government plans to unveil a signal that will prevent anyone from knowingly committing unlawful acts, forcing a career criminal to instigate a final heist. Here's what's wrong with the film: It's dull, way too long, full of plot holes, lacks a single quality performance, and is a parade of clichés.

- Director: Robert Marcarelli
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 100 minutes

Produced by a fundamentalist Christian network, "The Omega Code," about a rabbi who develops software that can decipher all the prophecies in the Torah which falls into the hands of the antichrist, is one of the few films on our list with deeply religious undertones. It's not these themes that land the movie a spot on our list, but the illogical script, eye-watering performances, and generic action sequences that make the muddled film one of the worst of all time.

- Director: Courtney Solomon
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 107 minutes

Video games are not the only properties that fail to adapt successfully as major motion pictures, as evident by "Dungeons & Dragons," a fantasy flick that was inspired by the age-old roleplaying game. Even director Courtney Solomon has taken aim at the movie, which starred Jeremy Irons, Justin Whalin, and Marlon Wayans, citing its quality was a result of not only interference from investors and license-holders but also his own inexperience in filmmaking.

- Director: Ron Underwood
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 12
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 95 minutes

Eddie Murphy played a man struggling to keep his lunar nightclub out of the hands of the mafia in the sci-fi action-comedy "The Adventures of Pluto Nash," a movie that is often cited as one of the biggest box office bombs of all time thanks to its meager $7.1 million worldwide gross against a $100 million budget. The film has since performed slightly better on home video.

- Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
- Stacker score: 27.2
- Metascore: 12
- IMDb user rating: 3.8
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Not to be confused with Marvel Comics's hit superhero film franchise of the same name, "The Avengers" was based on a 1960s British television series. Ralph Fiennes, Uma Thurman, and Sean Connery starred in the spy flick, which was derided by critics for its poor casting, confusing editing, and inability to capture the mood of its source material.

- Director: Brian A. Miller
- Stacker score: 26.6
- Metascore: 13
- IMDb user rating: 3.6
- Runtime: 89 minutes

Another action film about a man who loses his memory in a heist-gone-wrong, "10 Minutes Gone" stars Michael Chiklis as a career criminal who works to piece together 10 minutes he can't seem to remember in order to figure out who betrayed him and killed his brother. Bruce Willis also stars in the film that The New York Times deemed "forgettable." Redundant action sequences, wildly unbelievable plot twists, and clichéd one-liners are among the things that make this film a pain to watch.

- Director: John R. Leonetti
- Stacker score: 26.1
- Metascore: 11
- IMDb user rating: 3.7
- Runtime: 95 minutes

The first attempt to translate the popular video game series "Mortal Kombat" into a major motion picture resulted in an impressive $122.2 million worldwide box office gross. However, the sequel was unable to duplicate its predecessor's commercial success, managing only $51.4 million. The game's co-creator Ed Boon has since called "Mortal Kombat: Annihilation" the worst moment in the history of the franchise. 

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 25.5
- Metascore: 18
- IMDb user rating: 2.9
- Runtime: 95 minutes

"BloodRayne," with director Uwe Boll appearing yet again on this list, starred Kristanna Loken as a vampire who escapes from a freak show and joins a group of vampire slayers to hunt down and kill the man who raped her mother. Even one of the film's stars Michael Madsen has called it "an abomination ... a horrifying and preposterous movie" while Laura Bailey, who voiced the title character in the video games on which the film was based, has criticized its quality.

- Director: John McTiernan
- Stacker score: 24.5
- Metascore: 14
- IMDb user rating: 3.1
- Runtime: 98 minutes

A remake of the 1975 film of the same name, "Rollerball" starred Chris Klein, LL Cool J, and Rebecca Romijn as competitors in a violent sport. It failed to have much of an impact at the box office, grossing just $25.9 million worldwide against a $70 million budget, and critics called it an "incoherent mess." William Harrison, the writer of the short story on which the films were based, has been quoted saying he has no interest in seeing the movie.

- Director: Francesco Cinquemani
- Stacker score: 23.4
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 2.7
- Runtime: 100 minutes

Set in the year 2145, "Andron" sees a group of people waking up in a dark, creepy maze which only one of them can escape while the world looks on. The film's plot is an almost direct copy of "The Hunger Games" and "The Maze Runner," which it blends together without offering anything new or exciting. A lack of engaging characters and weak world-building also drag down the movie's potential.

- Director: Vic Armstrong
- Stacker score: 23.4
- Metascore: 12
- IMDb user rating: 3.1
- Runtime: 110 minutes

Nicolas Cage makes another appearance on this list with "Left Behind," an apocalyptic action flick based on Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins's Christian book series by the same name. Critics for general media were not the only ones who berated the film for its clunky direction, cheap-looking special effects, and wooden acting. Even critics for Christian publications admitted the movie was not much of a success.

- Director: Kevin Alyn Elders
- Stacker score: 22.8
- Metascore: 16
- IMDb user rating: 2.6
- Runtime: 85 minutes

It seems that NBA legend Dennis Rodman, who stars in "Simon Sez" as an Interpol agent tasked with rescuing a beautiful young woman who's been kidnapped by an arms dealer, would have been better off focusing on his on-court talents rather than bringing them to Hollywood. His wooden performance paired with this tired story line, make the 1999 film almost unwatchable and a complete box office bomb.

- Directors: James Franco, Bruce Thierry Cheung
- Stacker score: 22.8
- Metascore: 10
- IMDb user rating: 3.2
- Runtime: 90 minutes

A misstep from director James Franco, "Future World" follows a young man in the far future as he traverses a wasteland in search of medicine that will save his mother's life. Snoop Dogg, Lucy Liu, Mila Jovovich, and Suki Waterhouse all have substantial roles in the film, whose plot and feel can best be described as bromidic. Heavily derivative of the "Mad Max" franchise, this film, like so many others on our list, fails primarily because it is completely unoriginal.

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 19
- Metascore: 15
- IMDb user rating: 2.0
- Runtime: 90 minutes

Say hello to our friend Uwe Boll, who shows up again with "House of the Dead," about a group of college students encounters bloodthirsty zombies while attending a rave on a mysterious island. The video game-inspired movie may have been Boll's highest-grossing project with $13.8 million in ticket sales worldwide, but it is also widely considered his worst. Critics have since dubbed Boll the "dark god of bad video game movies."

- Director: Roger Christian
- Stacker score: 18.5
- Metascore: 9
- IMDb user rating: 2.5
- Runtime: 118 minutes

John Travolta starred in "Battlefield Earth," a big-screen adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard's sci-fi novel of the same name. Echoing themes of Scientology, it is commonly referred to as one of the worst films of all time due to its ugly production design, campy approach, and lackluster acting—among many other reasons. The movie mustered only $27.7 million worldwide against a $73 million budget, permanently suspending Travolta's plans for a sequel.

- Director: Uwe Boll
- Stacker score: 17.9
- Metascore: 9
- IMDb user rating: 2.4
- Runtime: 96 minutes

Director Uwe Boll cinches the number one spot on our list with "Alone in the Dark," starring Christian Slater as a supernatural detective who is the protagonist of the video game series on which the movie is based. The flick, whose cast also included Tara Reid and Stephen Dorff, was met with atrocious reviews and a $10.4 million worldwide box office gross—half that of that film's production budget. Blair Erickson, a writer who developed one of the film's first drafts, has since publicaly written about how Boll destroyed what could have been a good movie.