these action movies fail to get
audience's blood or wallets pumping hey
everyone I'm Rebecca and welcome to
watchmojo.com dat the box office so
there's nothing that I can do is that
what you're saying
can I have faith that means we're
looking at action-oriented films that
were massive financial duds we're
ranking them based on how much money
they lost as well as how much hype they
had prior to release all right let's
check it out I hear that you are
incredibly dangerous number ten Gemini
man even though it managed to make it
out of development hell this film seemed
to be doomed Gemini man tells the story
of Henry Brogan a former marine turned
assassin who's on the run from a clone
of himself despite the impressive use of
D aging technology and solid
performances the sci-fi thriller was
labeled as a generic action movie with a
subpar script at the box office
Gemini man immediately tanked bringing
in only 173 of the expected 275 million
dollars resulting in losses upwards of
75 million for the studio's involved it
will live on though as one of Will
Smith's biggest bombs ever number nine
Speed Racer based on the classic anime
from the 1960s Speed Racer is a bright
colorful racing film about the titular
protagonist and his struggles against
his fellow racers and corporate greed
the habitants care is paid with how hard
we push our team I just wanted you to
see how committed we are to winning the
movie was not well received at the time
of its release but has since developed a
cult following nevertheless Speed Racer
only grossed a little over ninety
million dollars on a budget of 120
million making it a bomb upon release oh
my god did you see that
a real single set jump into a flying
cake I know he blew up at Fuji but this
kid is flat-out magic given that it was
up against Iron Man the film that
kick-started the enormous ly successful
MCU it's a wonder it even made as much
as it did you think you can drive a car
and change the world it doesn't work
like that maybe not but it's the only
thing I know how to do and I gotta do
number eight John Carter Captain John
Carter Virginia a Disney sci-fi action
film adapted from a series of pulp
adventure novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs
John Carter is about the eponymous civil
war veteran who finds himself on Mars
and becomes embroiled in a conflict
there between Martian factions so dangos
winning the war let the red man kill red
and until only thoughts remain the movie
had a troubled production and its budget
reportedly ballooned during that time
which along with advertising expenses
put the price tag at around 350 million
dollars this will do that all even John
Carter's final gross of 284 million
dollars wasn't enough to recoup Disney's
heavy investment making it a very
expensive bomb indeed fitting solution
for setback because you say number 7
Catwoman sharing its name if nothing
else with the comic character of the
same name Catwoman follows a woman who
gains cat-like powers after being
drowned by a villainous cosmetics
company you hear that
it's called silence that's all I ever
wanted now keep it down lambaste it by
critics for failing on nearly every
production level it's gratuitous
sexualization and its lack of ties to
its supposed source material Catwoman
also failed to connect with audiences
managing to only gross 82 million on a
budget of 100 million dollars the other
night you killed
she was a nice girl why cat gadget cats
may have nine lives but Catwoman had
trouble scraping together even one
number six Alexander a historical epic
about the life of Alexander the Great
the famed Macedonian general and ruler
Alexander failed to live up to the
greatness of its namesake critics
largely panned the film citing its poor
pacing historical inaccuracies and lack
of involving characters as some of its
major faults what disturbs me most is
not your luck respect for my judgment
but your contempt for a world far older
than ours meanwhile audiences were
probably turned off by its laborious
runtime and the sparse action although
it grossed 167 million on a one hundred
and fifty five million dollar budget
advertising and other costs still put
the film behind around twice that much
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number five the rhythm section releasing
a movie around the Super Bowl can be
risky and the rhythm section proved to
be no exception
it wasn't an accident there was a bomb
in that plane this action drama film
stars Blake Lively as a grieving mother
who finds out her family was killed not
in a tragic plane crash but instead a
terrorist attack how would you do that
the setup for the movie must not have
appealed to many as it received the
worst wide opening of all time making
only 2.8 million dollars of the expected
9 to 12 million in its first weekend
with losses expected to be in the 30 to
40 million dollar range this action
movie was just a little offbeat but not
quite my tempo number 4 The Lone Ranger
this western action film adapted from a
long-running radio series in other media
follows the title Texas Ranger and his
Native American sidekick as they team up
to fight outlaws know like other entries
on our list
The Lone Ranger suffered critically as
well as financially as many found it
overflowing with too many ideas and the
whitewashing of Tonto was a rather sore
spot dnews like coyote be killed and
leave nothing to waste
tell me Kemosabe what does the white man
kill for the movie had many production
issues and cost at least 225 million
dollars though that figure bloke's to
over 375 million dollars with
advertising costs since it only managed
to make 260 million dollars The Lone
Ranger managed to be a singularly
disappointing boom worse how could this
be worse could develop an itch on your
nose
number 3 47 Ronin set in a fantasy world
of 18th century Japan 47 Ronin is about
a group of disgraced / outcasts samurai
or Ronin who try to get revenge on the
man who disgraced their former lord they
say only demons have the power to see
past a witch's disguise
are you a demon
no well it's visuals and action were
praised by some most found the
characters and the story flat and it was
especially unsuccessful in connecting
with Japanese viewers I take a vow
before you I will not rest until justice
is done it also failed spectacularly at
the box office making only 151 million
dollars on a two hundred and twenty five
million dollar budget a figure that
includes marketing costs with its total
losses amounting to around as much as it
made when accounting for inflation if I
accept my fate no one will question the
UH now about people number two Sahara an
action comedy adventure film Sahara
follows adventurers searching for a ship
in the Sahara Desert while also becoming
caught up in a fight against a warlord
spreading a deadly plague hold on while
many of the films on this list so far
have been considered bad most criticism
of this adventure flick is about how
generic and dull it is treasure hunters
general marine salvage the cool
themselves hardly your military elites
don't one of the most expensive flops of
all time Sahara made one hundred and
nineteen million dollars at the box
office but its total cost was a whopping
160 million dollars it seems like the
executives and charge invested a bit too
much in their own search for treasure
you should put the money to better use
like containing this plague is it
telling that I have seen exactly zero of
the movies on this list including the
honorable mentions yes yes it is all
right well you would think that based on
the stars that number one could have
pulled in at least some audience members
but no it failed miserably so let's look
through the honorable mentions or
dishonorable I guess and then we'll see
what our biggest action movie box-office
bomb was so you really want to attack
this thing yes yes I do
the NSA guy you were talking to what's
his supervisors name and Hitchens
and maybe it's better for to you and you
aren't around for the next part so you
can deny being here
in med school we were taught that this
is the most painful experience that a
person can add or without possibly going
into cardiac arrest
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RIPD I can't let you turn that gold in
this supernatural buddy action comedy
film follows a police officer that is
recruited into a ghostly police force
after death to combat evil spirits you
can take your chances with judgment you
can join the RIPD critics panned the
film adapted from a comic book as being
highly derivative of Ghostbusters and
men in black while also being rather
predictable and nonsensical yeah look
I'm sorry to disappoint but this is crap
audiences stayed away in droves to RIPD
cost 130 dollars to make yet it only
grossed 78 million dollars making it one
of the biggest box-office bombs of all
time a movie this unoriginal never stood
a ghost of a chance kind of like that
pun stop talking
drop it stop talking you're talking I
bet they thought they were gonna knock
him dead with RIPD but instead it was
dead on arrival
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and terrible puns but anyway let us know
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