10 Actors Who Just Appeared In Their Worst Movie

It's often said that you're only as good as your last movie, and that no matter how many classics you might have behind you, it's your most recent hit or miss that can end up colouring your future prospects as an artist.

While that clearly isn't always true, it's nevertheless dispiriting to see an actor hit an undeniable career low, appearing in a film that is quite categorically their worst to date.

Now, this doesn't mean that the actor in question also turned in career-worst work - they might've given a fine performance that was wasted on a poor script or generally uneven execution.

And on the balance of overall quality, these recent films are the worst-received of each actor's respective careers, from bold gambles that just didn't pay off to more blatantly cynical cash-grabs that most certainly did pay off - in the literal sense, at least.

But of course, any of these actors could easily get back on the right track with a quality new project, by which point most of these disappointments would've probably already been forgotten. In the very least, here's hoping...

Now, nobody's going to assume that Ice Cube has an unimpeachable critical winning streak or anything, but his filmography is for the most part a pretty standard mix of good and bad - largely dependent on the quality of the script he's working with, like most actors.

But if you thought the rapper-turned-actor couldn't plumb depths much lower than Ride Along 2 (14%), Dangerous Ground (8%), and Are We Done Yet? (7%), think again.

Cube's new screenlife adaptation of War of the Worlds currently sits at an almost impressively awful 0% on Rotten Tomatoes - a score that's genuinely difficult for even very, very bad movies to get in this day and age.

But it's certainly well-earned, because while a new take on War of the Worlds that unfolds entirely on a computer screen is an interesting idea, the execution is woefully bad.

The script is laughably inane, the VFX atrociously bad, it fails to do anything interesting with its unique style, it's packed full of embarrassing Amazon product placement, and Cube's performance feels totally disconnected from everything happening around him.

It shouldn't surprise anyone that this thing spent five years festering in post-production hell before finally coming out, because it's easily one of the worst movies released by a major studio in the past decade.