What is the most disappointing sci-fi movie sequel of all time?

Follow-ups that squandered a classic, killed a franchise or simply arrived years after anyone was still asking. Which one let you down hardest?

1

Terminator: Genisys

The 2015 attempt to reboot the timeline that spoiled its own twist in the trailer.

1000pts

2

Independence Day: Resurgence

The 2016 sequel that arrived twenty years late without its lead.

756pts

3

The Matrix Revolutions

The 2003 finale that ended the trilogy on a note most of its audience found opaque.

665pts

4

The Matrix Reloaded

The 2003 sequel that followed one of cinema's great originals with freeway chases and exposition.

597pts

5

The Phantom Menace

The 1999 prequel whose trade-blockade politics met two decades of backlash.

517pts

6

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

William Shatner's 1989 quest to meet God, the lowest-rated of the original-crew films.

517pts

7

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

The 2009 sequel that swept the Razzies and is disowned by its own director.

517pts

8

Alien: Resurrection

The 1997 fourth entry that resurrected Ripley as a clone and the series as a curiosity.

423pts

9

Highlander II: The Quickening

The 1991 sequel that recast an immortal Scot as an alien and is routinely called one of cinema's worst.

423pts

10

Men in Black II

The 2002 sequel that reset its own characters and repeated the first film's jokes.

423pts

11

Star Trek: Nemesis

The 2002 film that lost money, closed out the Next Generation crew and stalled Trek on film for seven years.

310pts

12

Jurassic Park III

The 2001 entry that dropped Spielberg and most of the wonder.

310pts

13

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

The 2019 finale that reversed much of the film before it and split the fanbase.

172pts

14

RoboCop 3

The 1993 sequel that softened a hard-R satire into a PG-13 toy commercial.

172pts