10 Recent Movies Which Scored 0% On Rotten Tomatoes
Cinema at its most impressively awful.
No matter what you think of it, there's no denying the influence that Rotten Tomatoes has on the film industry: audiences en masse make their movie-going decisions based on that single aggregate score, such that studios have a vested interest in getting it as high as possible.
But as rare as a "perfect" 100% rating is on the platform - reserved for the hallowed likes of Paddington 2 - it's just as difficult to make a movie which appeals to basically nobody and scores a frosty 0% critical approval rating.
Yet with the VOD movie market opening up significantly over the last five years, critics have never had more bad movies at their fingertips, and so, every year a number of tawdry, low-effort genre films end up landing the illustriously terrible rating.
These 10 films, each of them released within the last two-or-so years, were universally reviled by critics for their atrocious writing, horrendous directing, and slumming performances from actors who deserve or know better.
Thankfully, most of these films announce their awfulness upfront, so you've at least had fair warning before you start watching...
10. The Last Days Of American Crime
To the surprise of absolutely nobody, a 149-minute film from Olivier Megaton (Taken 3) wasn't the smartest thing for Netflix to sign off on, with this adaptation of Greg Tocchini's 2009 graphic novel turning out an agonisingly overlong thriller dud.
Though its premise - of a dystopian government planning to broadcast a signal which makes people unable to knowingly commit crimes - is loaded with potential, this exhausting slog of a movie sucks out most of the fun.
Between its only fitfully coherent script, its bored performances - save for an energetic-if-annoying Michael Pitt - and its braindead visual style, The Last Days of American Crime is proof perfect that the freedom Netflix grants their filmmakers isn't always a good thing.
With an hour cleaved away this would be a mediocre-yet-watchable thriller, but with a runtime rivalling that of several Marvel Cinematic Universe epics, it's positively painful to reach the end. Nobody would blame you for bailing out long before that.