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15 Worst Movies That Cost More Than 100 Million Dollars

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Nazarii Verbitskiy

TV Shows & Movies - May 21st 2026, 20:30 GMT+2

The Little Mermaid — 15. The Little Mermaid (2023)
The Little Mermaid promised to bring beloved animated magic into the real world, but the $250 million budget produced something that felt trapped between two different movies. The underwater sequences looked murky and weightless, turning vibrant coral kingdoms into dim CGI soup where it became hard to tell what was happening or why it mattered. Halle Bailey's vocals deserved better than being surrounded by fish that moved like plastic toys and water that never felt wet. The whole production seemed determined to recreate every single moment from the original while somehow missing what made those moments work in the first place. | © Walt Disney Studios

Snow White — 14. Snow White (2025)
Snow White arrived with enough behind-the-scenes drama to make the actual movie feel like an afterthought. The lead actress spent months in interviews explaining why the original story needed updating, while set photos leaked showing dwarfs replaced by "magical creatures" that looked like they escaped from a different, much cheaper fantasy. Disney somehow managed to take one of their most beloved properties and turn it into a cultural flashpoint before anyone even saw it. The final product feels less like a movie and more like an expensive apology that nobody wanted. | © Walt Disney Pictures

Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker — 13. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker tries to fix every complaint about The Last Jedi while also wrapping up a nine-film saga, and the result feels like watching someone frantically stuff decades of lore into a single movie. The film brings back Palpatine with barely any setup, introduces Rey's Sith lineage as a last-minute twist, and speeds through plot points so quickly that emotional moments never get room to breathe. Every major decision seems designed to undo the previous film rather than build on it. What should have been a triumphant finale instead plays like expensive damage control. | © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny — 12. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)
Some franchises should know when to stop, but Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny pushes forward anyway with a story about time travel and ancient artifacts that feels disconnected from everything that made the character work. The digital de-ageing technology makes Harrison Ford look like a video game character in the opening sequence, immediately setting a tone of expensive artificiality that never goes away. Even when Ford appears as his actual age, the action sequences feel labored and the dialogue sounds like people trying to remember how Indiana Jones movies used to talk. Two and a half hours later, it becomes clear that some heroes work best as memories. | © Walt Disney Studios

Cropped Deadpool Wolverine — 11. Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)
Deadpool & Wolverine promised to fix the multiverse mess by throwing two beloved characters into the same movie and hoping their chemistry would paper over everything else. The meta-jokes about Disney ownership and franchise fatigue feel more desperate than clever, like Ryan Reynolds is trying to wink his way out of a script that never quite figures out what story it wants to tell. Hugh Jackman's return as Wolverine should have been the emotional anchor, but the film treats his Logan comeback as just another gag instead of something that matters. All that R-rated violence and fourth-wall breaking can't hide how much this feels like expensive fan service pretending to be a real movie. | © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Justice League — 10. Justice League (2017)
Some superhero team-ups feel inevitable, but Justice League arrived like a corporate obligation nobody really wanted to fulfill. The film tries to squeeze six major characters into one overstuffed plot while dealing with extensive reshoots that left Superman's digitally removed mustache looking like a fever dream. Watching Batman, Wonder Woman, and the rest navigate stilted dialogue and a forgettable villain feels like witnessing expensive damage control rather than the epic culmination DC fans deserved. Two and a half hours somehow felt both rushed and endless. | © Warner Bros.

Thor Love And Thunder — 9. Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

Thor: Love and Thunder feels like someone decided the best parts of Thor: Ragnarok were the jokes, then built an entire movie around that misunderstanding. Taika Waititi cranks the comedy so high that genuine emotional beats about cancer and loss get buried under constant quips and screaming goats. The tone lurches wildly between silly and serious without ever finding balance, making Russell Crowe's scenery-chewing villain feel like he wandered in from a completely different film. What should have been a touching story about mortality becomes exhausting instead. | © Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Cropped the electric state — 8. The Electric State (2024)
The Electric State arrived on Netflix as a $320 million gamble that feels like someone fed every nostalgic sci-fi reference into an algorithm and asked it to make a movie. The Russo Brothers packed their post-apocalyptic road trip with giant robots, retro aesthetics, and emotional family drama, but none of these expensive pieces ever click together into something that feels necessary or even coherent. Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt wander through a world that looks meticulously designed yet completely hollow, like a theme park attraction that forgot to include the actual ride. All that money bought impressive visual effects that somehow make the story feel smaller instead of bigger. | © Netflix

Jupiter Ascending — 7. Jupiter Ascending (2015)
Jupiter Ascending proves that spectacular visuals and a massive budget cannot save a story that makes absolutely no sense. The Wachowskis built elaborate alien worlds and dazzling action sequences around a plot involving intergalactic royalty, reincarnated space princesses, and a man who is part wolf, but forgot to include any logic connecting these elements. Mila Kunis spends most of the movie looking confused while Channing Tatum roller-skates through the air in gravity boots, which perfectly captures how audiences felt watching it. The whole thing collapses under the weight of its own ambitions, turning what should have been epic into something accidentally hilarious. | © Warner Bros.

Cropped Transformers The Last Knight — 6. Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Bay's fifth Transformers movie somehow made giant robots fighting feel exhausting instead of exciting. The Last Knight drowns every action sequence in so much visual noise that following who is fighting whom becomes genuinely difficult, while the plot jumps between King Arthur mythology, alien conspiracies, and Mark Wahlberg yelling at machines with no coherent thread connecting any of it. Even the explosions start to blur together after two and a half hours of relentless chaos. This is what happens when spectacle completely replaces storytelling and nobody seems to notice the difference. | © Paramount Pictures

Batman v Superman Dawn of Justice — 5. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
The problem with Batman v Superman wasn't just that it was dark and serious. Zack Snyder took two of the most beloved superheroes in history and made them into brooding, violent strangers who barely resembled their comic book counterparts. The whole thing felt like a grim fever dream where Superman scowls constantly and Batman brands criminals like cattle. When your movie makes audiences actively root against Superman, something has gone catastrophically wrong. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

Cropped Pearl Harbor — 4. Pearl Harbor (2001)
Michael Bay decided to turn one of America's most solemn historical moments into a three-hour romance where the actual attack feels like an interruption. Pearl Harbor spends most of its massive runtime on a love triangle so wooden that the dialogue makes the explosions look subtle by comparison. The film somehow makes World War II feel like background noise to whether Kate Beckinsale will pick Ben Affleck or Josh Hartnett. Bay's trademark excess turns what should have been a memorial into a bloated spectacle that mistakes loudness for emotion. | © Touchstone Pictures

Cropped Green Lantern — 3. Green Lantern (2011)
Green Lantern had one of the most expensive superhero costumes ever created, and it was completely computer-generated for reasons nobody could explain. The digital suit looked like Ryan Reynolds was trapped inside a video game cutscene, making every scene feel disconnected from reality in the worst possible way. Warner Bros. spent a fortune building an entire cosmic mythology around a hero who seemed embarrassed to be wearing his own uniform. The whole production felt like watching someone burn through studio money while apologizing for existing. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

Cropped Tom Cruise The Mummy 2017 — 2. The Mummy (2017)

The Mummy tried to launch Universal's Dark Universe with Tom Cruise doing his usual running-and-screaming routine, except this time surrounded by ancient Egyptian curses and a mummy who looked more like a zombie extra from The Walking Dead. The movie couldn't decide if it wanted to be a horror film, an action blockbuster, or a setup for five more movies, so it split the difference and failed at all three. Russell Crowe shows up as Dr. Jekyll to deliver exposition about monster-fighting organizations that nobody asked for. What should have been a straightforward creature feature turned into a corporate mandate wrapped around a confused script that forgot to make anyone care about the actual mummy. | © Universal Pictures

Suicide Squad — 1. Suicide Squad (2016)
Suicide Squad promised a different kind of superhero movie, one where the villains got to be messy and unpredictable instead of noble and brooding. The editing feels like it was assembled by someone having a panic attack, jumping between tones and scenes without any clear sense of what story it wants to tell. Jared Leto's Joker shows up just enough to be distracting but never enough to matter, while the rest of the squad fights a forgettable glowing sky-beam that could have been copy-pasted from any other blockbuster. The real tragedy is watching Will Smith and Margot Robbie work overtime to inject personality into a script that seems actively hostile to character development. | © Warner Bros. Pictures

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Hollywood has a long and painful history of throwing enormous budgets at projects that had no business asking for them. These 15 movies prove that a nine-figure budget is absolutely no guarantee that anyone is going to enjoy what ends up on screen.

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Hollywood has a long and painful history of throwing enormous budgets at projects that had no business asking for them. These 15 movies prove that a nine-figure budget is absolutely no guarantee that anyone is going to enjoy what ends up on screen.