Worst Movies You Can Watch on Netflix Right Now

“Sеx Drive” is about teen who swipes his brother’s car to visit a girl he met online who lives in another part of the country. Critics said the film was funny for raunch entertainment aimed at teens but its appeal does not extend beyond that demographic.

Bruce Willis stars as the leader of a group of soldiers tasked with rescuing health workers tending those wounded during a conflict in an African country. David Ansen of Newsweek said the film is “… hopelessly steeped in stale Hollywood action conventions.”

“King Arthur: Legend of the Sword” stars Charlie Hunnam as the legendary English monarch. Some critics thought Guy Ritchie’s version of the legend pulled it away from its foundation. Drew Dietsch of Fandom said the movie was “a good production with some eccentric style, but a mostly bland and unfocused fairy tale reappropriation.”

Seth Rogan and James Franco play the team behind a successful tabloid television show who discover that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un is a fan of the program and arrange to interview him. The CIA intervenes and recruits them to assassinate the despot. The movie was controversial and upset the North Korean government. Emily VanDerWerff of Vox said that “even the film’s most ardent champions would likely concede that ‘The Interview’ is a spectacularly weird film to end up at the center of a free speech brouhaha.”

In this sequel to the original “Insidious,” in which a family battled a malevolent spirit that had possessed their son, the spirit now possesses the father. Critics said the film lacked suspense, and Donald Clarke of the Irish Times called it “confused and crudely staged.”

A mix of live action and animation, “Osmosis Jones” is an adventure/comedy about a white blood cell (Chris Rock) combating a virus (Laurence Fishburne) inside the body of a character played by Bill Murray. There’s plenty of director Bobby Farrelly’s gross-out humor. Critics praised the film’s inventiveness and sly references to other films, though some like Danny Graydon of BBC.com called it a “vastly underachieving diversion.”

This remake of the 1970s film that starred Burt Reynolds, about inmates playing prison guards in football, failed to improve on the original. Adam Sandler played the lead as the disgraced quarterback who lands in jail. Michael Compton of the Bowling Green Daily News said “Unlike the original, this version lacks that gritty edge that made it so effective.

In the future imagined by this film, mechanized police patrol the streets to keep humans in line. One robot, Chappie, is grabbed by humans and reprogrammed to try to understand human behavior. Critics thought the film’s ideas were too big for director Neill Blomkamp to explain. Angie Ham of Slashfilm said “The larger story is positively riddled with plot holes, and any sense of subtlety seems to have fallen right through them.”

“Project X” is about three teens who intend to hold the most epic party ever, but aren’t ready for the consequences. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes dismissed the film as “unoriginal, unfunny, and all-around unattractive … predictably mean-spirited debauchery.”

“The Giver” stars Jeff Bridges in the title role, as an old man who’s the sole keeper of the community’s memories, some of which hold perilous truths. Richard Crouse said the film had “big ideas about individual freedoms, memory, traditions and customs. Important themes one and all, but they’re wrapped in a movie that does not do them justice.” The cast also included Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, and Alexander Skarsgård.

Colin Farrell plays a gang member who infiltrates a criminal organization to kill the leader, who ruined his formerly happy life. His plans are disrupted when a neighbor uncovers his secret and threatens to expose him unless he helps her with her own revenge. Some critics hailed it as a modern noir, but others like Robbie Collin of the Daily Telegraph said it was “too dull to function as a thriller and too silly to qualify as anything else.”

This animated film about the Caped Crusader, voiced by Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill, focuses on the origins of the Joker. Critics said the story “adds little to its iconic source material, further diminished by some questionable story additions.”

In a sequel to the Terminator series, the first not to feature Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christian Bale plays John Connor in a story set in the then-future of 2018, involving the conflict between humanity and Skynet’s network of machines. Evan Williams of The Australian said “for once I found myself hankering for Arnold Schwarzenegger.”

Zac Efron plays an Iraq War veteran who carries a photo of a woman he doesn’t know, but who he believes kept him alive. He meets her at her workplace, and though she mistrusts him, a romance begins. Critics were fairly vicious toward the film. Jessica Lambert of Little White Lies was typical: “Romance isn’t dead, but films like this are giving it a bad name.”

An action-comedy that spoofed the action genre, “Last Action Hero” stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Austin O’Brien. Tom Hibbert of Empire Magazine said the film was “an attempt to be both a high-octane actionfest and a satire on such films, the result of which is the weirdest concoction: the metaphysical blockbuster.”

Mads Mikkelsen plays an assassin who wants to retire but is targeted by his former employer who considers him a liability. “Polar is almost two hours of sensory overload that attempts to be a slick and gritty thriller but comes off as a brash, cluttered and crude film,” said Carolyn Mauricette of Cinema Axis.

Director Lasse Hallström has been nominated for three Academy Awards with a film résumé that includes “My Life as a Dog,” “What’s Eating Gilbert Grape,” and “The Cider House Rules.” “Safe Haven,” about a woman who moves to a town in North Carolina and falls in love with a widower, is not among his finest achievements. Critics dismissed it as “schmaltzy, predictable, and melodramatic,” adding that it “also suffers from a ludicrous plot twist.”

In “Collateral Beauty,” an advertising executive played by Will Smith suffers a tragedy. He seeks answers from beyond by writing letters to Love, Death, and Time. He gets answers that steer him to the interconnectedness of the world. Despite the star power of Smith, Ed Norton, Kate Winslet, and Helen Mirren, “Collateral Beauty” failed among critics. “‘Collateral Beauty’ sets a record: it is probably the worst movie each of these fine actors will ever do,” proclaimed Paul Byrnes of the Sydney Morning Herald.

In “Dear John,” Channing Tatum plays a soldier who meets a college student (Amanda Seyfried) and they fall in love. They become separated over the next seven years and are connected by their letters, which trigger unforeseen consequences. Some critics saw no chemistry between Tatum and Seyfried. Phelim O’Neill of the Guardian said “Their romance fizzles out in their letters to each other, and the plot gets lost in the post.”

This rom-com misfire stars Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston in a screwball comedy. Matt Joseph of We Got This Covered seemed to sum up critics’ opinions: “The silly story and crummy writing leave ‘Just Go With It’ feeling a bit unfinished and never quite hitting the right level, like a haphazard hodgepodge of poor ideas.”

Ben Affleck directed, co-produced, and starred in this Prohibition-era film about the son of a Boston policeman who became a mobster and is forced to flee Boston because he stole a gang leader’s money and his girlfriend. There’s plenty of violence in this stylish period piece, which critics found jumbled and misguided. David Edelstein of New York Magazine/Vulture said “You probably won’t turn it off when it comes on cable. But the material needs to be bigger, more momentous, as well as more intimate.”

In “Unthinkable,” Samuel L. Jackson plays a special operative who teams with an FBI agent portrayed by Carrie-Anne Moss to try and find three nuclear bombs set to explode in three different cities. The movie holds a respectable 66% score among audiences, but critics were unimpressed. One, Sean Axmaker, called the film “… a clumsy polemic that bounces between the boundaries of stage-play debate and torture porn spectacle as everyone argues over ethics.”

Katherine Heigl plays a lovelorn television producer in this rom-com that also featured Gerard Butler. Helen O’Hara of Empire Magazine said the movie is not as “risqué as it wishes it were, nor as likable as it should be.” “The Ugly Truth” is one of three films on the list with a Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score of 14%.

“Self/less” is sci-fi mystery thriller(take your pick) about a billionaire, played by Oscar-winner Ben Kingsley, who can only beat cancer by moving his consciousness into a healthy body. Tim Robey of the Daily Telegraph said the film was “anonymously slick and rarely betraying a sense of humour, Self/less might not mind a discreet facelift, but it much more urgently needs a personality transplant.”

Action film star Jason Statham is a detective teamed with a rookie cop tasked with stopping a master thief from draining the funds from a bank by using a computer virus modeled on chaos theory. Only three critics reviewed the film for Rotten Tomatoes. One of them, Christopher Null of Filmcritic.com, said the movie was “wholly lifeless.”