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What is the worst movie starring a professional athlete?

By YPB Team

Studios kept betting that a famous body equals a leading man. These fifteen results say otherwise, some more loudly than others.

  1. Kazaam — ranked #11
    Kazaam
    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.
  2. Steel — ranked #22
    Steel
    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.
  3. Blue Chips — ranked #33
    Blue Chips
    The 1994 college basketball drama that cast Shaquille O'Neal and Penny Hardaway as recruits alongside Nick Nolte.
  4. Simon Sez — ranked #44
    Simon Sez
    Dennis Rodman's 1999 action comedy as an Interpol agent, released to some of the worst reviews of the decade.
  5. Double Team — ranked #55
    Double Team
    The 1997 Jean-Claude Van Damme thriller in which Rodman plays an arms dealer; it swept its Razzie categories.
  6. Mr. Nanny — ranked #66
    Mr. Nanny
    Hulk Hogan's 1993 family comedy as a former wrestler hired to babysit two sabotage-happy children.
  7. Santa with Muscles — ranked #77
    Santa with Muscles
    The 1996 Christmas film in which Hogan, an amnesiac millionaire, becomes convinced he is Santa Claus.
  8. No Holds Barred — ranked #88
    No Holds Barred
    Hogan's 1989 wrestling drama, produced by the WWF and built around a rival called Zeus.
  9. Suburban Commando — ranked #99
    Suburban Commando
    The 1991 comedy casting Hogan as an intergalactic soldier hiding out with a suburban family.
  10. Space Jam — ranked #1010
    Space Jam
    Michael Jordan's 1996 live-action and animation hybrid, beloved by a generation and savaged by critics at the time.
  11. The Marine — ranked #1111
    The Marine
    John Cena's 2006 action debut as a discharged Marine chasing the men who kidnapped his wife.
  12. 12 Rounds — ranked #1212
    12 Rounds
    Cena's 2009 thriller built on a series of increasingly implausible timed challenges around New Orleans.
  13. See No Evil — ranked #1313
    See No Evil
    The 2006 slasher starring the wrestler Kane as a hotel killer, the first film from WWE's own studio.
  14. Universal Soldier: The Return — ranked #1414
    Universal Soldier: The Return
    The 1999 sequel that cast the wrestler Bill Goldberg as a super-soldier and killed the franchise for a decade.
  15. Doom — ranked #1515
    Doom
    The 2005 video game adaptation starring Dwayne Johnson, then a few years out of the wrestling ring.
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Kazaam sits at 5% on Rotten Tomatoes and Steel at 4%, on a fifteen-film list where Hulk Hogan supplies four entries by himself: https://youpick.best/articles/shaquille-oneal-ranked-many-ways

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