10 Criminally Low IMDb Movie Ratings You Won’t Believe

2. Killing Them Softly

IMDb Rating: 6.2

Goodfellas was the worst thing to happen to the American gangster film. Scorsese's magnum opus is an enrapturing account of the criminal life of Henry Hill, telling the typical rise-and-fall story with such in-the-moment excitement you can't help but taken along for the ride, but in the two-and-a-half decades since there's been few films that have been able to escape from its shadow. And even those that do (A Most Violent Year turned the whole idea on its head, presenting a hero who strived to not get wrapped up in that world) skew so close it's easy for them to be dismissed.

Thus, Killing Them Softly is one of the most underrated films of decade, and although many people took umbrage with the supposedly on-the-nose political message (although that it's obvious is really the point - the criminals are all so wrapped up in their own things they don't think about the bigger picture), the central problem was getting over the wall Goodfellas built. Casting Ray Liotta, who post-2000 has a had a career coasting solely on his starring role, certainly didn't help, but it's really something intrinsic with the genre.

To many, seeing Andrew Dominik go from the gigantic The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford to more well covered pastures was in itself a disappointment, so scoring lower than the western (7.6) is to be expected, but not to a point where it sits alongside Spider-Man 3, Winter's Tale and A Million Ways To Die In The West.