What is the worst movie starring a professional athlete?
Studios kept betting that a famous body equals a leading man. These fifteen results say otherwise, some more loudly than others.
1Kazaam
The 1996 fantasy comedy in which Shaquille O'Neal plays a rapping genie released from a boombox; it holds a 5% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes.
2Steel
Shaquille O'Neal's 1997 turn as a DC superhero who builds his own armour, a bigger flop than the genie film that preceded it.
3Blue Chips
The 1994 college basketball drama that cast Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway as recruits alongside Nick Nolte.
4Simon Sez
Dennis Rodman's 1999 action comedy as an Interpol agent, released to some of the worst reviews of the decade.
5Double Team
The 1997 Jean-Claude Van Damme thriller in which Rodman plays an arms dealer; it swept its Razzie categories.
6Mr. Nanny
Hulk Hogan's 1993 family comedy as a former wrestler hired to babysit two sabotage-happy children.
7Santa with Muscles
The 1996 Christmas film in which Hogan, an amnesiac millionaire, becomes convinced he is Santa Claus.
8No Holds Barred
Hogan's 1989 wrestling drama, produced by the WWF and built around a rival called Zeus.
9Suburban Commando
The 1991 comedy casting Hogan as an intergalactic soldier hiding out with a suburban family.
10Space Jam
Michael Jordan's 1996 live-action and animation hybrid, beloved by a generation and savaged by critics at the time.
11The Marine
John Cena's 2006 action debut as a discharged Marine chasing the men who kidnapped his wife.
1212 Rounds
Cena's 2009 thriller built on a series of increasingly implausible timed challenges around New Orleans.
13See No Evil
The 2006 slasher starring the wrestler Kane as a hotel killer, the first film from WWE's own studio.
14Universal Soldier: The Return
The 1999 sequel that cast the wrestler Bill Goldberg as a super-soldier and killed the franchise for a decade.
15Doom
The 2005 video game adaptation starring Dwayne Johnson, then a few years out of the wrestling ring.
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