20 Most Disappointing Movies of 2025

2025 has certainly been a terrific year for movies by any measure, but it's simply impossible for every hotly anticipated film to deliver on expectations.

Sometimes a filmmaker just misses the mark, whether a result of complacency on their own part, studio meddling, or some other factor outside of their control.

And with that in mind, these are the 20 films from 2025 which fell most brutally short of the hype, leaving audiences baffled and disappointed that they just didn't come up to snuff.

Now, were all of these films terrible or even bad? Absolutely not - some were still solidly watchable, yet they failed to live up to the quality that was either expected or at least hoped for.

The lesson here? No matter how neat a movie might look, and how optimistic the marketing might have you feeling, there's always the prospect for basically every film to fall short of the hype.

Nobody's saying we as movie lovers need to be relentlessly pessimistic and cynical about every new film, but there's definitely something to be said for sensibly tempering your expectations...

The eighth and apparently final Mission: Impossible movie wasn't bad, but it did nevertheless fall far short of the expectations set by Tom Cruise and filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie over the past decade.

Simply put, Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning is one of the most convoluted and outrageously bloated blockbusters of all time - a globetrotting action film with far too many characters and subplots that also seems to vastly overestimate the average viewer's interest in the franchise's "lore."

That is to say, The Final Reckoning bends over backwards to force contrived links to pretty much every prior entry in the series, most of which feel like the very sort of half-baked fan service McQuarrie himself recently criticised.

Though the cast certainly tries hard and the set-pieces are entertaining, it's also abundantly clear the series peaked with Fallout and has spent the last two movies trying, in considerable vain, to top it.

And as an apparent conclusion to Ethan Hunt's (Cruise) story, it ultimately doesn't feel like much of an ending at all. A cinematic anti-climax if there ever was one.