The Worst Reviewed Movies of 2025

I don’t know if you’ve heard about this, but some good movies came out this year. Did you see Ryan Coogler’s vampire epic, Sinners? Or Guillermo del Toro’s long-gestating passion project, Frankenstein? Or the hilarious but also heartbreaking afterlife dramedy, Eternity? You probably should have if you haven’t, but that’s not why we’re here. We’re here to talk about the other side of the coin – the 2025 movies that didn’t just fail to make the grade, but made falling on their faces an artform unto itself.

For this list, we’re namechecking movies that received a 2 or 3 on IGN’s review scale. Nothing got a 1 this year (praise be), and although we did see a few 4s, like The Electric State, Deep Coverand Eddingtonwe decided to really scrape the bottom of the barrel. So if you want to know what movies to avoid (or perhaps seek out if you’re morbidly curious), let’s dive into IGN’s worst reviewed movies of 2025!

Atrocious Actioners

Jackie Chan is known across the globe as one of the best martial arts stars to ever grace the silver screen, but even legends don’t always bat a thousand. PandaPlan from director Luan Zhang is one of Chan’s worst films; he stars as a fictionalized version of himself who has to commit a heist to save zoo pandas from an army of mercenaries. With terrible VFX and lifeless fight scenes, Panda Plan was described as “little more than a poor imitation” of Chan’s previous films by IGN reviewer Chase Hutchinson.

But he wasn’t the only action star to come up short in 2025, with Jason Statham starring in the woeful David Ayer film, A Working Man. Based on the Levon Cade novel series from Chuck Dixon, A Working Man is a paint-by-numbers affair that doesn’t take advantage of Statham’s charm or physical skills. Reviewer Hanna Ines Flint said that Statham is “surrounded by a cohort of undercooked villains in what amounts to a colossal waste of an action film budget.”

Viola Davis also got in on the action with G20an Amazon Prime Original from director Patricia Riggen. Starring Davis as United States President Danielle Sutton, G20 is a “terrorists versus the Prez” vehicle in the vein of Air Force One that unfortunately falls into many of the typical made-for-streaming movie traps. Reviewer Jesse Hassenger said that G20 was lacking in “exciting or well-staged action,” instead featuring “thriller cliches and unconvincing political details.”

In the same vein is Shadow Forcea bare-bones Joe Carnahan actioner starring Kerry Washington and Omar Sy that somehow received a theatrical release. This one is hard to describe, because the plot and characters are so thinly sketched that they might as well be composed on table napkins. Reviewer Devan Suber called Shadow Force “a movie as vague as its title,” adding that it “doesn’t give you any real reason to care about anyone or anything that happens onscreen.” Ouch.

Horrendous Horror

COVID-19 themed movies haven’t generally been widely loved, and Don’t Log Off didn’t change that trend. A screenlife movie in the same style as Searching, Don’t Log Off stars Ariel Winter in a story about a group of friends trying to figure out what happened to one of them that disappears from a video call. Reviewer Steven Nguyen Scaife found it repetitive and tiring, writing that “both the COVID-era setting and the computer-screen presentation of Don’t Log Off show flickers of promise, but this horror film has no clever ideas for using either one.”

Another gimmicky horror film came from social media celebrity Kris Collins and Celina Myers; House on Eden is a supernatural found footage movie that’s yet another uninspired knock-off of The Blair Witch Project. Reviewer Matt Donato was profoundly unimpressed, saying the film is “hapless and nonsensical in its structure” and is “built from blocks stolen from better and more accomplished movies.”

Further weak horror films from this year include I Heart Williea public domain Mickey Mouse slasher based on the Steamboat Willie animated short that Matt Donato said “flimsily sets up cheap flesh-flaying thrills that never stray far from convention,” and Icka sci-fi horror comedy about a science teacher who has to combat a parasitic alien plant that reviewer Shannon Miller said is “not remotely haunting enough to make for a decent horror movie or anywhere near funny enough to be a good comedy.”

I reviewed The Strangers – Chapter 2the second in a planned trilogy of slasher films from director Renny Harlin. Despite Madelaine Petsch doing what she can in the lead role, the movie is devoid of tension, thrills, or emotional resonance. It might be marginally better than Chapter 1, but I described Chapter 2 as “ultimately just as slapdash as its predecessor.”

The biggest turkey in the horror category this year is Five Nights at Freddy’s 2the latest video game adaptation to be lambasted by critics. The first film wasn’t that great either, but the sequel reaches new lows with a shoddy script penned by series creator Scott Cawthon that’s more concerned with spoon-feeding easter eggs to franchise fans than doing anything dramatically satisfying. It’s a shame, because director Emma Tammi (who returns from the first movie) isn’t an untalented filmmaker; her minimalist horror movie, The Wind, that she directed before becoming the custodian of the FNAF films, is a pretty decent spooky western. But her skills aren’t on display in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, which Matt Donato described as a “bare minimum sequel.”

Star Trek to Nowhere

Holding the ignominious honor of being the only film rated a 2 by IGN this year is Star Trek: Section 31. Originally developed as a spin-off series from Star Trek: Discovery for Michelle Yeoh’s character, Philippa Georgiou, Section 31 was reworked into a movie after production issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ultimately, neither director Olatunde Osunsanmi or screenwriter Craig Sweeny wrangled anything of value out of the film, which is nominally about Georgiou as an evil-emperor-turned-secret-agent who joins a team of whoevers to recover a superweapon before bad guys can use it to destroy the universe… or something. It’s actually kind of hard to follow, but trying isn’t even worth your time, with reviewer Jordan Hoffman describing the film as “nothing but a lousy, uninteresting caper picture” that’s devoid of all the qualities fans expect from the Star Trek franchise.

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