20 2000s Movies Audiences Loved, But Critics Hated

12. Lucky Number Slevin

There is only one film on this list that can top the 87% audience score boasted by Lucky Number Slevin on Rotten Tomatoes, which goes to show just how well mainstream cinema-goers took to the movie. For context, this is the same score as The Social Network and Ratatouille, among others.

Of course, any project that can boast Josh Hartnett, Lucy Liu, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, and Bruce Willis is going to have a decent head start on winning people over, and the mystery thriller brought more on board with its twisting and turning plot, landing on a shocking reveal that was lapped up.

It was the kind of bombshell that can steal all the focus as the cinemas empty, with audiences happy to overlook certain jumps in both logic and reason. Lucky Number Slevin's big twist was very successful in this, as it papered over some of the cracks that appeared throughout the rest of the runtime.

Said cracks were obviously picked up by the critics, the likes of the plot becoming too convoluted for its own good, characters going only skin deep, with even accusations of style over substance leading to a much cooler reception. Though there are certainly films on this list that critics were much harsher on, the gulf between audiences and critics is rarely this wide.