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Gal Gadot's 15 Best Movies Ranked from Worst to Best

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Ignacio Weil

Entertainment - May 3rd 2026, 17:00 GMT+2

15. Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

Patty Jenkins’ sequel should have been Gal Gadot’s victory lap, but it plays more like a very expensive wish-granting accident. Diana is still radiant, and Gadot gets a few sincere emotional beats with Chris Pine, yet the movie buries her under clumsy rules, rubbery action, and a villain plot that keeps explaining itself while somehow making less sense. The mall opening has charm; almost everything after that feels like a superhero movie trapped inside a perfume commercial with homework. | © Warner Bros.

Cropped Death on the Nile — 14. Death on the Nile (2022)

A murder mystery on a luxury riverboat sounds impossible to ruin, but *Death on the Nile* manages to make glamour feel strangely airless. Gadot’s Linnet Ridgeway is meant to be dazzling enough to make everyone jealous, and she absolutely looks the part, though the performance never gets much room beyond rich, doomed, and photogenic. Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot does the heavy mustache-lifting, while the film’s glossy digital sheen keeps sanding down the danger. | © 20th Century Studios

Cropped Knight and Day — 13. Knight and Day (2010)

Before Hollywood knew exactly what to do with Gadot, *Knight and Day* dropped her into the Tom Cruise-Cameron Diaz action-comedy blender and gave her the small role of Naomi. The movie itself is breezy, silly, and professionally assembled, but it is also the kind of star vehicle where everyone outside the two leads is basically scenery with a passport. Gadot barely gets enough screen time to leave a mark, though the film has more pulse than plenty of her later, bigger projects. | © 20th Century Fox

Cropped Criminal — 12. Criminal (2016)

On paper, *Criminal* has the sort of unhinged premise that should be either brilliant trash or trashy brilliance: Kevin Costner gets Ryan Reynolds’ CIA memories implanted into his brain. Gadot plays Jill Pope, the grieving wife caught in the middle, and she brings more softness than the film’s meathead sci-fi thriller machinery probably deserves. The problem is that the movie treats emotion like a side quest between growling, shooting, and Gary Oldman looking personally offended by the script. | © Lionsgate

Triple 9 2016 1 — 11. Triple 9 (2016)

John Hillcoat’s dirty-cop thriller has a cast so loaded it almost feels illegal: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Anthony Mackie, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson, and somehow Gadot orbiting the chaos as Elena. *Triple 9* is grimy, violent, and occasionally gripping, but it never becomes as sharp as its cast list promises. Gadot mostly functions as part of the criminal-world texture, elegant and dangerous in theory, while the movie saves its best material for the men sweating through Atlanta’s underworld. | © Open Road Films

Cropped Red Notice — 10. Red Notice (2021)

Netflix spent blockbuster money on *Red Notice*, and somehow the finished thing feels like three famous people trapped inside an algorithm that keeps shouting “fun” at them. Gadot is easily the sleekest part of it as The Bishop, playing the world-class art thief with enough bite to suggest a better movie hiding in the vault. Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds do their usual brands at full volume, while Gadot at least seems aware that the whole operation is nonsense with nice luggage. | © Netflix

Cropped Heart of Stone — 9. Heart of Stone (2023)

As a bid to turn Gadot into a full spy-franchise lead, *Heart of Stone* has admirable ambition and a severe case of borrowed personality. Rachel Stone gives her more to do physically than many of her roles, and the action is clean enough when the movie stops drowning itself in tech jargon about “the Heart.” The frustrating part is that Gadot looks ready for a sharper, meaner espionage film, while Netflix keeps handing her a very polished screensaver with explosions. | © Netflix

Cropped Fast Furious — 8. Fast & Furious (2009)

Gisele Yashar arrives in *Fast & Furious* before the franchise fully becomes superheroes-with-seatbelts, and Gadot immediately cuts through the macho fumes with a cooler, more controlled energy. The film itself is a weird transition piece, still pretending to care about street racing while already eyeing the international mayhem to come. She is not the main attraction yet, but her chemistry with the franchise’s rhythm is obvious: calm, stylish, lightly dangerous, and somehow more convincing than half the plot mechanics. | © Universal Pictures

Cropped Fast Furious 6 — 7. Fast & Furious 6 (2013)

The sixth film gives Gisele her biggest emotional swing in the series, and Gadot makes the Han romance work far better than anyone needed a car-heist soap opera subplot to work. *Fast & Furious 6* is absurd in the proper franchise way, with endless runways, tank chases, and physics being escorted out of the room. Still, Gisele’s sacrifice lands because Gadot plays her with restraint instead of melodrama, which is basically a miracle inside a movie powered by nitrous and family speeches. | © Universal Pictures

Cropped Ralph Breaks the Internet — 6. Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)

Gadot’s best late-career surprise might be voice acting, because Shank in *Ralph Breaks the Internet* has the effortless cool many of her live-action roles keep trying to manufacture. The movie is messy, overstuffed with internet references, and occasionally too pleased with its own corporate playground, but Shank gives it a slick little spark. Her scenes with Vanellope work because Gadot sounds relaxed, amused, and confident, not trapped under the weight of a franchise trying to crown her as an icon. | © Walt Disney Animation Studios

Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice 2016 1 — 5. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

A lot in *Batman v Superman* is loud, gloomy, and written like everyone swallowed a philosophy textbook, but Gadot’s Wonder Woman entrance is pure movie-star math. She spends much of the film as a mysterious presence at fancy events, then suddenly shows up in armor and makes the whole theater remember why blockbusters exist. The film around her is a beautiful migraine, yet her debut as Diana has swagger, mystery, and the rare ability to steal focus from Batman fighting Superman. | © Warner Bros.

Cropped Zack Snyders Justice League — 4. Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)

The four-hour Snyder cut gives Diana more mythic weight than the theatrical version ever managed, even if it also gives everyone about twelve extra slow-motion entrances. Gadot benefits from the restored scale: her Wonder Woman feels less like a cameo in someone else’s chaos and more like an ancient warrior trying to hold a broken team together. Not every line survives the operatic seriousness, but her action scenes finally breathe, and the movie treats her like a pillar instead of decoration. | © Warner Bros.

Cropped Keeping Up with the Joneses — 3. Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)

This suburban spy comedy is not secretly a masterpiece, but it understands something many larger Gadot vehicles forget: she is funniest when the movie lets her be intimidating and ridiculous at the same time. As Natalie Jones, she plays the impossible neighbor with deadpan elegance, bouncing nicely off Isla Fisher and Zach Galifianakis while Jon Hamm handles the square-jawed spy routine. The film is lightweight, sure, but Gadot looks more comfortable here than in several projects built entirely around her. | © 20th Century Fox

Cropped Fast Five — 2. Fast Five (2011)

The moment the franchise figured out it should become a heist machine instead of a street-racing lecture, Gadot’s Gisele started making a lot more sense. *Fast Five* uses her brilliantly: not too much, not too little, just enough charm, competence, and dry confidence to make her feel like a real asset to Dom’s crew. The Rio vault madness still plays like premium action nonsense, and Gadot fits the ensemble without needing the movie to stop and announce her importance. | © Universal Pictures

Cropped Wonder Woman — 1. Wonder Woman (2017)

For one clean, shining moment, the DC universe stopped sounding like a boardroom argument and let Gadot carry a movie on sincerity, physical presence, and old-fashioned heroic awe. *Wonder Woman* works because Patty Jenkins frames Diana’s innocence as strength, not stupidity, and Gadot sells the impossible balance between warrior, outsider, romantic lead, and symbol. The third act gets swallowed by digital noise, but everything before it gives her the role she was born to play, and for once the hype was earned. | © Warner Bros.

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Gal Gadot became a movie star in the strangest modern way: first as the elegant wildcard in a franchise about cars, then as the face of a superhero era that Hollywood immediately tried to copy, inflate, and overcomplicate. Her filmography is uneven, sure, but it is also more revealing than people give it credit for – full of giant budgets, risky casting bets, strange detours, and performances where her calm, almost statuesque presence either anchors the chaos or exposes just how messy the movie around her really is.

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Gal Gadot became a movie star in the strangest modern way: first as the elegant wildcard in a franchise about cars, then as the face of a superhero era that Hollywood immediately tried to copy, inflate, and overcomplicate. Her filmography is uneven, sure, but it is also more revealing than people give it credit for – full of giant budgets, risky casting bets, strange detours, and performances where her calm, almost statuesque presence either anchors the chaos or exposes just how messy the movie around her really is.