Bottom 5 Reaction & Review Movies of 2025

Hey, guys, and welcome back. Now for those of you reading this for the first time, about a day has passed since I uploaded the Top 5 Movies I reviewed for 2025. Well now, it's time to look at the opposite side of things. I'm taking a look at the Bottom 5 Movies I covered in 2025. Now I'll be honest, this one was a little bit harder to put together. I'll get a little bit more into that when I reveal the number 5 movie on this list, but just to let you guys know, there were quite a bit of bad movies last year that I had to compile and think of which ones would fit this list. But when the dust was settled, I finally decided on these 5 movies. These 5, in particular, were just bad enough for various reasons that they earned the dishonor of being on this countdown. Plus also, it gives me one more chance to rip into them on why I think they deserved to be here.

Now like before, these are *not* full on reviews. These are just summaries of what I thought about these particular movies. If you really want to know, you can go find them yourself on my blogspot account. Now with all that said, it's time to countdown the Bottom 5 Reaction & Review Movies of 2025.

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Bottom 5 Reaction & Review Movies of 2025

We kick things off with number 5 and, like I just mentioned, this was one kinda hard to put together. Because there were quite a bit of bad movies that deserved to be on this countdown. And when it comes to number 5, I narrowed it down to 3 movies. Two of those were sequels to movies that I've already covered. The other one is more of an original movie. And ultimately, I decided to pick the latter in this case. Because, while the other two films were certainly bad, they weren't quite bad enough to make it on this list. At worst, they were just disappointing sequels. This movie, though, I ended up hating because of how stupid and illogical it was. The movie I'm talking about is 2003's "Sky High".

5 - Sky High (2003)

Guys, I love stupid movies, but this movie takes up the stupidity level, ramps it up and multiplies it by 10. Because everything about the movie felt like it made almost no sense and, for a movie that was trying to take itself seriously, it fails at doing so because of it's horrible writing. The characters were all vapid and lifeless, and the story itself could've been interesting, but, well, made itself into a mess that tried, in vain to clean itself up, but ultimately didn't.

The story itself, I thought was going to be really interesting. Because it presented itself with 3 different possibilities. Does our main character accept death and await reincarnation? Does it remain a ghost forever? Or does it seek revenge upon her killer, only for her to lose her soul forever? I thought it was going to go the route of having alternate endings, but sadly, it doesn't. It just stuck with the traditional one ending and nothing else. And even then, the ending itself really sucked.

And the stupidity factor comes in multiple cases here. Such as when our main character detective is told that guns don't work on the supernatural. And what does he do? He uses his gun to try and stop our villain even though he was just told earlier that they don't fucking work! Guys, I've criticized Shane Abilene's horrible shooting skills in the "Triple-B" movies from Andy Sidaris that he's in, but I don't think even he would be stupid enough to shoot at something that he couldn't even kill. This detective, though, is stupid as fuck because apparently he's too focused on getting revenge for his wife being murdered.

I could also mention the pacing issues the movie had, too. The movie was over 2 hours long even though it had no reason to be that long in the first place. Guys, I wanted to like this movie, simply based on it's premise, but this film disappointed me so much that there's no way in hell I'm ever gonna watch this movie again. And again, I *love* stupid movies, but there's only so much stupidity I can take from a movie that wasn't even trying to be "so bad, it's good". Well, guess what? It's not "so bad, it's good", it's so bad, it's boring". Yeah, this movie's also boring, too, which also adds more to the pacing issues. But I've kinda dwelled on this movie enough as is. So with that said, "Sky High" comes in at number 5.

Number 4 is a movie based off a Marvel Comics character that I usually like. But that doesn't mean it's prone to being in a bad movie, and this one is most certainly his worst. Coming at number 4 is "The Invincible Iron Man".

4 - The Invincible Iron Man (2007)

Now I've covered quite a handful of these Marvel animated movies and just about all of them have ranged on being average at best. But if you want the lowest of the low, then look no further than "The Invincible Iron Man". A character who, again, I usually do like. And at least with the other movies I've covered that feature Iron Man, both in the latter two live action movies and the other animated films that he's in, they're at least able to give you something of value from the character. This movie, on the other hand, offers nothing but a coalmine of suckittude.

To start with, the animation ranges on being subpar at best to horrible at worst. The latter in which it involves CG. And it's some of the worst-looking CG I've seen implemented in any animated anything in a long time. The worst part about it is that it looks and feels unfinished. I mentioned it beforehand in my review, but there was a scene where Iron Man is trapped underwater and as soon as he moves his arm to get free, it actually skips a frame of animation! Like, holy shit, how cheap do you have to be where you have to actually *skip* a frame of animation and still look like shit?! Granted, a lot of DC's direct-to-video animated films have had their problems of bad CG when it's implemented into their own animated films, but it's nothing in comparison to how poorly implemented it's used here.

On top of all that, the story is really kinda just reworking Tony Stark's origin story, which isn't really that great. Also, Tony Stark's father is still alive in this movie, which I still find really strange because I'm use to him not being around in the live action "Iron Man" movies. But anyway, this movie also tried to foreshadow a prophecy that when the Mandarin rises from his grave, an "Iron Knight", AKA Iron Man, will show up to do battle and defeat the Mandarin once and for all. And guess what? That *never* happens in this movie. Some other character, whose name I don't fucking remember and don't care to re-read my review to find out, ends up beating the Mandarin in a really retarded and cliche way that I've seen done in other movies and TV shows. And the worst part about it is that it doesn't really do it very well either.

Guys, I'm just glad that this wasn't the only "Iron Man" film to exist, prior to his debut in the MCU. Because if it was, it would've tarnished my interest in the character and I probably would've had no interest in ever watching any of the "Iron Man" movies. Granted, I wasn't really a fan of "Iron Man 2", while "Iron Man 3", though very flawed, was still entertaining enough to make me want to keep rewatching it. So for all of the sequels faults, at least they have something there that you could care about. This movie doesn't make you care about "Iron Man" whatsoever. And like I said, if this film had been the only movie to exist that starred Iron Man, I would've hated the character before I even got the chance to like him. Which is saying a lot because it could've been much higher on this countdown, had I never seen any of the live action movies. But since I have, the blemish here only does enough to get to number 4 on this countdown.

We jump from comic books to video games, because number 3 is the only video game adaptation I reviewed last year. It's a series that I have, admittedly, grown a bit more fond of thanks to playing games like Resident Evil's 2 and 4, along with a few other games in the series. But when it comes to movies, it's been hit or miss, and this one is, by far, the biggest misfire of it's movie adaptation career. I'm, of course, talking about "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City".

3 - Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021)

Oh dear lord, where do I start here? Well, first of all, this movie tries to adapt Resident Evil's 1 and 2 into one movie. Which, that by itself, is kind of a huge mistake because, one, you're trying to tell two different stories in under two hours long. And two, you would also have to cut a lot of corners just to try and make your film adaptation to work. Which, in the hands of a competent writer, *maybe* you could get away with it. But again, trying to tell two different stories in under two hours just doesn't work here.

So not only does the story not work, all of the characters are all really forgettable or are changed for the worst. To give you guys a couple of examples, Leon Kennedy is more of an inept rookie than he was in Resident Evil 2. Which is in stark contrast with his counterpart in that game because, while he was a rookie, he wasn't completely inept or stupid like he is in this movie. Albert Wesker has an out of the blue face turn towards the end of the movie that makes no fucking sense whatsoever because, well...fuck you, that's why. Other characters like Sherry Birkin, who had a major role in Resident Evil 2, is reduced to having no reason to be in this movie outside of name recognition. Which I found to be the biggest baffling change that they did here because Sherry actually has a purpose in games like Resident Evil's 2 and 6. So why the fuck this movie changed that completely makes no sense whatsoever.

On top of all that, we had terrible CG, the lighting being kinda shit in darkly lit scenes, and the acting being also terrible as well. And do you want to know the worst part about all this? This movie was suppose to serve as a "reboot" of sorts for the live action "Resident Evil" movies. And if this is the best this movie has to offer, I hope it never fucking happens. Because even though I have never seen any of the previous live action "Resident Evil" movies, I have no interest in ever watching them. Granted, I didn't have any interest in them to begin with, but this movie solidified that decision for me because it is easily the worst "Resident Evil" movie I have ever seen. If you want better "Resident Evil" movies, go watch the CG animated films. They're not exactly great, but they do a hell of a much better job in being more loyal to it's source material. And this is coming from someone who normally doesn't care about any of that. But this movie prevented me from not doing so because of how poorly made it was in being a live action "Resident Evil" movie. So yeah, "Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City" gets it spot at number 3.

Number 2 is a movie that, for quite a while, was in contention to be number 1 on this Bottom 5 list, but something else beat it, and I'll tell you what it is in a little bit. But first, I should talk about the movie that came in at number 2. Number 2 is a movie that involves vampires and they also speak mandarin. If you don't know what I'm referring to, the movie I'm talking about is "Chinese Speaking Vampires".

2 - Chinese Speaking Vampires (2021)

Allow me to summarize the entire plot to you guys right here: Some actor is trying to land a film role that's supposed let him speak Mandarin. He has to go to a Mandarin speaking school where he has to learn the language within a month, otherwise, he doesn't get the role. The head teacher of this Mandarin school is also a vampire that is trying to recruit other humans into vampires. Thus, leads into our battle between our heroes trying to stop the vampires from taking over the world. Or possibly just LA, because I kinda remember one of the vampires admitting that.

But anyway, this story is shit and mostly plotless. The movie was suppose to be aiming to be a horror comedy, which it fails miserably at because nothing about the movie is remotely funny. It even tries to go for more racial humor, but it doesn't work because none of it is really funny. And I normally like racial humor, but this movie just does it so casually that it comes across as really awkward and unnecessary. The characters were about as interesting as moldy bread is. There is a romantic subplot between our main character and another girl that is shit. There is *nothing* here that you make will laugh.

On top of all that, the fight choreography is poorly done and edited too. Not only are the fight sequences nauseating to get through, because of all the fucking jump cuts and everything, but it's also inconsistent as well because of our final fight between our main character and the main mandarin-speaking vampire. Why is it inconsistent? Because it shifts from between night and day between each cut and the filmmakers couldn't decide if the scene was suppose to be shot in the dark, or when the sun was suppose to come up. It was so poorly done, much like every other fight scene in this movie.

There was also the issue of the lack of makeup effects. Because, since this movie is suppose to have vampires and all that, you would naturally think that we would get to see them biting their victims. Well, guess what? You get the bites, but you don't get the bite marks. Because when you see our main vampire trying to bite one of our victims, you don't actually get to see the aftereffects of it because there are no bite marks on *any* of the victims. Guys, how fucking hard is it to include something as simple as something like bite marks? It couldn't have cost that fucking much, but apparently, the filmmakers didn't have the budget for it...somehow. Either that, or the special effects team were too fucking lazy to get off their asses and actually include something as mundane as a fucking bite mark!

Oh yeah, and speaking of which, the special effects were horrible, too. Mainly, when it comes to CG. The CG effects are atrociously bad. Which, I kinda hinted at in my review when I mentioned all of the vampires who turn into dust, but I never flat out stated it when it came to it's CG. So yeah, I'm letting you guys know now that the special effects are fucking garbage here. There wasn't a single thing that I liked about this movie. And normally, this kind of shit would hit the number one spot for this year's Bottom 5.

But then something else came along and beat that movie by a mile. So, what movie came along that it deserved to be on the top of this putrid stain of this Bottom 5 countdown? Well, it's a movie that, not only is really poorly made, but it also pissed me off on a somewhat personal level, too. So with that said, the number one movie on this year's Bottom 5 goes to "Robert And The Toymaker".

1 - Robert And The Toymaker (2017)

Now, why would this film, in particular, be at the number one spot? Why would this film piss me off on a personal level? Well, something interesting happened after I finished typing that review. I said that, after watching this fucking garbage of a movie, I said that I was gonna go watch "Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge". Which is not only my favorite "Puppet Master" movie, but it's also something that I watch every year around October, what with it being Halloween and all. So, I went over to my DVD collection, popped in the movie, picked the third option, because the first disc contains the first 5 movies and all, and I pressed play.

And guess what happened? I got audio for the movie...but no dialogue. There was no dialogue playing whatsoever. Now I thought, OK, maybe it's just on my end and maybe I didn't adjust the wires properly. So I popped it out to check the disc, and there were no scratches on it. So disc error wasn't an issue. I tried to mess around with the wires to get it the movie to play...but I still got no dialogue for it. Again, the audio's music was playing, but *not* the dialogue. And you want to know the fucked up part about is? Every other movie on that DVD works perfectly fine. I got audio and dialogue for the other 4 movies. But "Puppet Master III" did not give me that same kind of treatment. And eventually, I had to give up on watching it. Which frustrated me to no end because I wanted to watch my favorite "Puppet Master" movie in the series and I couldn't do that. And guess what? I *still* can't get it to play properly. I don't even know if I'll ever get a chance to watch it again anytime soon because this movie, in particular, pissed me off so much that I decided to say fuck it, this hunk of shit is gonna be on this year's Bottom 5 list and it made it straight to the top of it, as well.

Now, setting aside why I couldn't watch my favorite "Puppet Master" movie in the series, this movie is also really poorly made, too. This movie is, to quote a certain reviewer from the past, "a perfect storm of failure". This movie fails on every conceivable level. There is not a single frame in this movie that I enjoyed. This movie doesn't even have the basic job of showing it's own opening title during the whole movie. Guys, for everything I've said about all of the bad movies that I've covered for this series, at least they're able to show you it's opening title like any other movie in history would. This movie, though, didn't want to do that. At least, not my copy of it on DVD anyway, back when I had it. I've long since traded it in and I'm thankful for it. But yeah, this movie didn't bother showing it's opening title. And that tells me they either forgot to add it in, or they were so ashamed of themselves for making this movie that they didn't even bother adding it in just in case some asshole online critic couldn't decipher what the movie they were reviewing is. Which already kinda backfires since they released this movie on DVD and all.

But anyway, setting aside that, I probably should mention that the story for this film is essentially just a ripoff of "Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge". Which is partly why I ranted about why I couldn't watch it earlier because I watched a piece of shit knockoff instead. We have our main character who is basically this movie's version of Toulon, if Toulon had been stripped of all his depth and backstory. We have our dolls, who are nowhere near as cool-looking as Toulon's puppets were, we had a forgettable Nazi General who was nowhere near as interesting as Klaus was from "Puppet Master III". Instead, he spends his time chewing up the scenery in the worst way possible. He's not like the villain from the 1993 "Judge Dredd" movie where he was actually doing the same thing, but was still funny while hamming his performance. The Nazi General in this movie talks so much that he doesn't know when to shut the fuck up. And you're gonna hate him for the same reasons.

Guy's, there's nothing else here that I can say worked. Special effects are garbage, the sound-mixing is horrible, the acting is atrocious, *nothing* about this movie worked. And do you want to know something else that I found fucked up about this movie, aside from it being a shitty knockoff of "Puppet Master III"? I was doing a little digging on other reviews of this movie, and I found out that this thing is part of a series of movies, the third to be one to be exact, and it's a prequel to how it all started. And do you want to know how many movies this fucking thing has centered around it? 5, including this one. They were all directed by some guy named Andrew Jones. And I'm gonna say this right now, just in case anyone's stupid enough to ask me, no, I am never reviewing another one of these fucking movies from Mr. Jones here. In fact, I'm gonna swear off reviewing anymore movies that this guy has made. How the fuck this guy was able to shit out 5 movies out of this garbage is something that baffles my mind. As I said, I'm not reviewing anymore movies from his shitbag series, because if they're anywhere near as bad as this thing was, I'm probably gonna end up banning all of Andrew Jones films from ever being covered for this series just out of spite. That's how much I hated this movie, guys. It is unwatchable from start to fucking finish, and that's why "Robert And The Toymaker" ends up on this year's Bottom 5 list.

And there you have it, guys. I actually got both lists out this time. Probably a month late, but at least I got them out this time. So, I hope you guys stay safe and I will see you all later for another year of Reaction & Review. Peace.