You can tell right away this one’s off. John Travolta does his best, but the movie treats his autistic character like a punchline instead of a person. It’s awkward, mean-spirited, and so uncomfortable to watch that ten minutes in, you already wish you could walk out. | © Quiver Distribution
You can tell Morbius is lifeless from the first scene. Every moment feels off because of flat performances, awkward exposition, and CGI so blurry it’s hard to tell what’s happening. It’s not scary, thrilling, or even bad in an entertaining way, just dull enough to make you check the time before the ten-minute mark. | © Sony Pictures Releasing
You can feel the disaster from the first tilted camera shot. The dialogue is nonsense, the acting wooden, and the story so dumb it borders on parody, humans learning to fly jets after a thousand years of ruin. Within minutes, Battlefield Earth stops being sci-fi and becomes an unintentional comedy about how not to make a movie. | © Warner Bros. Pictures
You can tell it’s a trainwreck the second Arnold Schwarzenegger says, “Everybody chill.” Neon lights, the weirdest bat-suit of all time, and ice puns fill every frame like a fever dream Hollywood refused to wake up from. By the ten-minute mark, it’s clear this isn’t a superhero movie, it’s a two-hour toy commercial in full meltdown. | © Warner Bros. Pictures
Me Time opens with Mark Wahlberg and Kevin Hart wingsuiting off a cliff, and somehow it’s already unfunny. The CGI looks like it was borrowed from a 2010 phone game, and the jokes hit the ground faster than the characters. Within minutes, it’s clear this movie has none of the energy or chemistry it thinks it does. | © Netflix
You know The Happening is trash the moment people start “running from the wind.” The dialogue is bizarre, the acting is lifeless, and every scene feels like a parody that forgot it was supposed to be scary. When the big twist turns out to be homicidal plants, it stops being a thriller and becomes a full-blown comedy – by accident. | © 20th Century Fox
It only takes a few minutes to realize Jupiter Ascending is all sparkle, no substance. The plot makes zero sense – Mila Kunis is suddenly space royalty, Channing Tatum’s flying around in hover boots, and everyone speaks like they’re in different movies. Despite flashy visuals, the story’s so hollow and chaotic you stop trying to follow it and just watch the pretty nonsense go by. | © Warner Bros. Pictures
The Last Airbender takes one scene to realize M. Night Shyamalan completely missed the point. The energy, humor, and heart of the original series vanish into lifeless exposition and wooden acting that sound like a bad school play. The bending looks ridiculous, the pacing is broken, and every line reminds you that this adaptation never should’ve left the storyboard. | © Paramount Pictures
Fans knew Dragonball Evolution was a disaster within minutes – Goku in high school was the first red flag. The movie barely resembles the anime, swapping energy blasts and wild fights for dull dialogue and awkward effects that look like glowing fireballs. Even newcomers could tell something was off, but longtime fans just asked the same thing over and over: why? | © 20th Century Fox
It only takes one scene to realize how wrong Movie 43 went. The so-called “comedy” kicks off with either a hostage pitch meeting or a fake banned movie hunt, both equally painful. By the time Hugh Jackman appears with, yes, testicles on his neck, you know you’ve entered cinematic purgatory disguised as a sketch show. | © Relativity Media
Nothing kills fear faster than a bunch of teens reading creepypasta off a laptop. The movie opens like a group project gone wrong: flat dialogue, zero tension, and no sign of actual horror. Within ten minutes, you know Slender Man isn’t scary; it’s just painfully boring. | © Sony Pictures Entertainment
You realize something’s horribly wrong within seconds, before a note of “Memory” is even sung. The CGI human-cat hybrids look like a bad tech demo from a nightmare, and the uncanny visuals never stop getting weirder. By the time Rebel Wilson’s feline peels off her own skin, you’re wondering how anyone thought this was fit for human eyes. | © Universal Pictures
You can tell it’s bad before the first line of dialogue. The endless, self-serious title sequence full of Egyptian cat murals drags on forever, setting the tone for everything that follows. Then comes Halle Berry’s bored voiceover, corny exposition, and a plot that already feels lost, proof that Catwoman lands on all fours in the worst way possible. | © Warner Bros. Pictures
You know Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is doomed the moment it opens with yet another “previously on” recap and a wall of exposition about the T-Virus. Within minutes, the promised White House showdown is reduced to rubble, and the editing turns every fight into an incomprehensible blur. What should’ve been a wild finale ends up feeling like watching chaos through a blender. | © Screen Gems
It takes about ten minutes, maybe less, to realize Home Sweet Home Alone forgot everything that made Home Alone work. The lifeless CGI titles, flat TV-style camerawork, and painfully unfunny setup make it clear there’s no magic here. What follows isn’t a holiday comedy, just a hollow echo of a classic that deserved to be left alone. | © Disney+
We’ve all sat through that moment when it hits you: This movie’s bad, and it’s not getting better. Some films take an hour to fall apart, but these? You can tell in ten minutes flat. The tone, the pacing, the sheer awkwardness, it’s obvious from the start that you’re in for a mess.
