20 Biggest Summer Box Office Bombs Of All Time

Budget: $80 million (marketing unknown)

Box office: $10.8 million

Loss: $69.2 million

As anyone with a passing interest in movies will be aware, there’s only one great Raid, and it doesn't feature Benjamin Bratt and James Franco.

Actually there are two great Raids – Gareth Evans’ stunning 2011 action bonanza The Raid: Redemption and last year’s impressive sequel Berandal – and then there’s The Great Raid, a 2005 war film that sat on the shelf for three years before recouping a fraction of its budget on its eventual limited release.

Set not too far from the Indonesian locale of Edwards’ films, The Great Raid is an account of a famous rescue of Allied prisoners from Cabanatuan City in The Philippines in World War II. John Dahl’s reenactment of said events was billed as “a story that has never been told” but “a movie that has never been watched” would be more accurate.

Roger Ebert, among others, was a fan, but the late great critic’s endorsement wasn’t enough to save a film that badly needed a rescue mission of its own.