Ranking Every Keanu Reeves Movie Worst To Best

60. The Day The Earth Stood Still (2008)

day the earth stood still
20th Century Fox

Almost a decade before he joined the MCU with Doctor Strange, director Scott Derrickson helmed this completely pedestrian, forgettable remake of the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Though the film released at the height of Keanu's rep as a wooden performer, this was actually a smart use of his particular brand of stoicism, casting him as the affect-free alien messenger Klaatu.

That doesn't make up for the fact that this is a boring remake no matter its glut of big-budget CGI hooey, and offers little reason for its own existence beyond the soulless milking of a brand name (both the original film and Reeves).

59. Chain Reaction (1996)

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Fox

Undeniably watchable thanks to the sheer star collision of Reeves, Morgan Freeman, and Rachel Weisz, Chain Reaction still isn't nearly as exciting as its high-octane title might suggest.

This sci-fi fugitive movie - helmed by The Fugitive director Andrew Davis no less - miscasts Reeves as physics student and machinist Eddie Kasalivich, while Weisz is largely wasted as his sidekick, leaving the bulk of the acting heft to fall to an effortlessly scene-stealing Freeman.

It could be worse, but it's by no means a good movie.

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