Paul WS Andersons 10 Best Movies Ranked By IMDb

Paul W.S. Anderson’s 10 Best Movies, Ranked By IMDb

Paul W.S. Anderson is known for making campy, popcorn flicks that are guilty pleasures and these are the highest rated on IMDb.

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Paul W.S. Anderson is best known for writing and directing a string of summer popcorn flicks, with varying degrees of success. He got his first big break with 1994’s Shopping, before moving into the mainstream with the mega-popular 1995 adaptation of Mortal Kombat. Since then, Anderson has branched out into producing such films as DOA: Dead or Alive, Pandorum, and Monster Hunter.

Many of the films Anderson has created turned out to be guilty pleasures that were blasted by critics and fans alike, even if they still managed to pack theaters. Indeed, that might be the secret to his success. IMDb has ranked the films that Anderson has specifically directed, be they cinematic flops, or big-budget triumphs.

10 Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) – 5.5

Paul W.S. Anderson returned to direct the final installment of his guilty pleasure video game adaptation of the Resident Evil franchise, but it ranked among the lowest of his films in terms of critical rating. It’s true that the Resident Evil films had quickly declined in quality immediately following the original, but The Final Chapter was an attempt to wrap it up with a bow and deliver a solid bang in the process.

It largely succeeded, even if its score rating was below mediocre. By this time, Resident Evil had become so chronologically and thematically convoluted that there was probably no way out of the woods. It returned the series back to the original location of the first film in an attempt to bring it full circle, which is more than most popcorn flick franchises bother to do.

9 Pompeii (2014) – 5.5

It’s hard to find anyone who even remembers Pompeii, much less what they thought of it. The supposed tentpole film came and went with a snap of the fingers, and made very little impact in the process. All this, despite a rather stellar cast featuring Kit Harington, Emily Browning, and pop culture icon Kiefer Sutherland.

The film was a box office disaster, taking in a paltry $117,831,631 worldwide box office gross, versus an estimated $100 million dollar budget. Pompeii failed to spark much in the way of interest, especially at a time when juggernauts like the Marvel Cinematic Universe were already at full throttle.

8 Alien Vs. Predator (2004) – 5.6

Paul W.S. Anderson decided to bring two cinematic monster titans together to share the silver screen for the first time, and audiences could scarcely believe that it was happening. Alien vs. Predator was an attempt to adapt the Dark Horse comics crossover into a tangible franchise piece, but it was doomed from the start.

In an attempt to cash in at the box office, AVP was given a PG-13 rating which completely missed the point. The story was panned, the characters missed the mark, and it didn’t have much going for it aside from a decent battle with a Queen alien at the end of the film.

7 The Three Musketeers (2011) – 5.7

Anderson tried to adapt another property that nobody really asked for with 2011’s updated Three Musketeers film. The film boasted a decent enough cast (including Anderson’s wife Milla Jovovich), but there was a significant lack of buzz around the film’s release, and that was bound to hurt box office receipts.

As with many big-budget adventure films based on historical works, The Three Musketeers was considered to be watered down by a contemporary script, empty action scenes, and a certain level of disrespect for the source material.

6 Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) – 5.8

After kicking things off with the seminal original Resident Evil film, Paul W.S. Anderson came back to the franchise and the director’s chair for the Afterlife sequel. To date, it is viewed by some as the weakest of the Resident Evil films in terms of story and settings, but Anderson attempted to work with his own script as best he could.

The introduction of Chris Redfield, a popular character from the games, is largely seen as a waste as he takes a backseat for the principal protagonist Alice, which is a huge missed opportunity. Afterlife did was set the stage for Resident Evil: Retribution, one of the most fun and entertaining flicks in the series.

5 Mortal Kombat (1995) – 5.8

Mortal Kombat was the film that put Paul W.S. Anderson on the map, and it remains one of the most entertaining guilty pleasures in cinematic history. Sure, it hasn’t aged all that well, and there’s some dubious cinematography and horribly outdated CGI, but Anderson managed to capture the feel of the Mortal Kombat video game franchise in a way that even the recent 2021 reboot film failed to do.

This was a popcorn film in almost every way, but it was hampered by its own PG-13 rating, which flew directly in the face of what the video games were all about. Still, it’s fun to watch, it’s got some heart, and the fight sequences are pretty exciting all these years later.

4 Soldier (1998) – 6.0

Shortly after unleashing Mortal Kombat on cinemas, Paul W.S. Anderson took on this sci-fi action classic starring the iconic Kurt Russell as a child soldier turned one-man wrecking crew, who gets traded up for the latest model. After being dumped on a planet being used as a landfill, he finds purpose in protecting a group of civilians from an updated breed of genetically enhanced super-soldiers.

This film is very underrated and deserves more praise than it got. It won’t win any awards for its cinematic quality, but it’s a bone-crushing action movie with a unique story, and a very likable central character that audiences grow to root for before the final credits are over. Plus, Russell’s fight with Jason Scott Lee is still as brutal and fantastic as ever.

3 Death Race (2008) – 6.3

The original Death Race 2000 hasn’t aged very well, which means this 2008 remake by Paul W. S. Anderson is more than welcome. It’s gritty, dirty, and heartless, but it also manages to concoct the right mix of Fast and the Furious and Mad Max in order to satisfy fans of cinematic vehicular homicide.

Jason Statham carries the film, and he’s the right pick for the role. His brash, thuggish attitude seems fitting for a guy engaging in one of the most hazardous sports the future has to offer. He’s flanked by a great cast including Ian McShane, Joan Allen and Tyrese Gibson, who round out the characters nicely.

2 Resident Evil (2002) – 6.7

Paul W.S. Anderson made good on his adaptation of the popular survival horror video game Resident Evil, and it was the start of a franchise that would span 14 years, and multiple sequels. That’s a pretty significant run for a series with such a paper-thin premise, and an over-reliance on CGI monstrosities.

Part of the reason why the original Resident Evil film worked so well is that it stuck to the claustrophobic source material. Future sequels attempted to one-up each other, which were seen as harmful the franchise in the process, but the first film was all about a tiny team battling ravenous undead inside cramped spaces. If it works, don’t change it.

1 Event Horizon (1997) – 6.7

Event Horizon was wildly unappreciated for its time, and that remains one of the great cinematic sins of history. This was a smartly written sci-fi horror film that introduced audiences to some of the most hellish imagery ever to hit celluloid. It was nightmarish, and downright frightening, as well as being a cinematic triumph.

It can’t compete with masterpieces like 2001: A Space Odyssey when it comes to sheer cinematography, but that’s not the intention. Event Horizon took everything that made Hellraiser so iconic and jammed it into a sci-fi piece about humanity inadvertently opening up the gates to a dimension of pure, unabashed horror. Anything more would have garnered an X-rating.

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