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?
1Terminator: GenisysThe 2015 attempt to reboot the timeline that spoiled its own twist in the trailer.1000pts
2Independence Day: ResurgenceThe 2016 sequel that arrived twenty years late without its lead.756pts
3The Matrix RevolutionsThe 2003 finale that ended the trilogy on a note most of its audience found opaque.665pts
4The Matrix ReloadedThe 2003 sequel that followed one of cinema's great originals with freeway chases and exposition.597pts
5The Phantom MenaceThe 1999 prequel whose trade-blockade politics met two decades of backlash.517pts
6Star Trek V: The Final FrontierWilliam Shatner's 1989 quest to meet God, the lowest-rated of the original-crew films.517pts
7Transformers: Revenge of the FallenThe 2009 sequel that swept the Razzies and is disowned by its own director.517pts
8Alien: ResurrectionThe 1997 fourth entry that resurrected Ripley as a clone and the series as a curiosity.423pts
9Highlander II: The QuickeningThe 1991 sequel that recast an immortal Scot as an alien and is routinely called one of cinema's worst.423pts
10Men in Black IIThe 2002 sequel that reset its own characters and repeated the first film's jokes.423pts
11Star Trek: NemesisThe 2002 film that lost money, closed out the Next Generation crew and stalled Trek on film for seven years.310pts
12Jurassic Park IIIThe 2001 entry that dropped Spielberg and most of the wonder.310pts
13Star Wars: The Rise of SkywalkerThe 2019 finale that reversed much of the film before it and split the fanbase.0pts
14RoboCop 3The 1993 sequel that softened a hard-R satire into a PG-13 toy commercial.0pts
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Nemesis took $43.3 million, the lowest of the thirteen films, and The Final Frontier out-grossed it by nine million dollars: https://youpick.best/articles/star-trek-ranked-many-ways
