10 Directors Who Just Made Their Worst Movie

It's damn-near impossible for most filmmakers to have decades-long winning streaks like, say, Martin Scorsese, who has turned in banger after banger for an entire half-century. All the same, it's enormously disheartening whenever a director plumbs newfound critical depths, delivering what is by far their weakest work to date. Unfortunately, for the following 10 filmmakers, that time came over the past 12 months.

From celebrated directors being blindsided by their first dud project to more uneven filmmakers getting their worst reviews to date, these artists all turned in the most divisive, even loathed projects of their careers so far. In some instances, it's clear as day that a director will rebound with a hit project soon enough, while others? Not so much. And in the case of a certain octogenarian Hollywood legend, it's entirely possible it'll be their last movie ever.

Regardless of what the future holds for these directors, their latest films were received with indifference at best, if not pure, acid-tongued vitriol by critics and general audiences alike.

The lesson here? No matter how brilliant a director might be, nobody is infallible or above turning in a weak project - except Scorsese, of course.

Zack Snyder's filmography is just all over the map, from the well-received likes of his Dawn of the Dead remake, 300, Watchmen, the Snyder Cut of Justice League, and Army of the Dead, to abject critical failures such as Sucker Punch, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and his Netflix sci-fi tentpole Rebel Moon - Part One: A Child of Fire.

Despite many believing that Rebel Moon's sequel surely couldn't be any worse, Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver ended up landing a catastrophic 16% on the Tomatometer - even lower than the first part's 22%.

While Part One was a wholly unoriginal mish-mash of myriad beloved blockbusters, it did at least benefit from a stacked supporting cast and a few entertaining action beats. Part Two, however, failed to build those elements into a satisfying climax, instead stranding its ensemble amid a coma-inducing script and array of action that was ultimately more exhausting than enjoyable.

Snyder has always been an acquired taste, yet only his most die-hard acolytes could surely defend such a creatively bankrupt venture as this. 

To Snyder's mild credit, the Director's Cut of the film - which adds almost an entire hour to the runtime - was received decidedly more positively. Even so, the version that most people actually bothered to see just wasn't it.