9 Worst Billion Dollar Movies

Ranking: #34

Worldwide Earnings: $1,021,103,568

After The Return of the King became the second ever billion-dollar movie nearly a decade earlier, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey reached similar heights at the box office, which just shows that high revenue doesn't indicate quality. After all, the worst Middle Earth film by some distance is the second highest-grossing of the lot.

Lacking the genuine perfection of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, which is still arguably the best Hollywood franchise of All Time or the exhilarating spectacle of both of its follow-ups (which were improvements), this one is a major chore to sit through. It's less an epic adventure, more a seemingly endless trudge through some forests.

Like Age of Ultron and Fallen Kingdom, it's not a terrible film since the final act is pretty epic and the performances are largely superb, but it's fatally undone by its indifferent script and terrible pacing. Rather than being thrilling, it's often numbingly boring.

This was such a disappointment that neither of the subsequent two grossed as much, which is hardly surprising. To make a trilogy of three-hour movies out of a 300 page book has to be one of the worst Hollywood decisions in recent memory.