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All Gerard Butler Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
The latest: Gerard Butler leads his family to safety amidst a world devastated by a comet in Greenland 2: Migration. Opening this weekend in theaters everywhere.
We’re ranking Gerard Butler movies by Tomatometer! We start with his Certified Fresh, including theHow to Train Your Dragon live-action film, the sentimental tearjerker Dear Frankie, and 2020’s Greenland. That sci-fi family thriller was his first Certified Fresh non-animated movie since Frankie 16 years earlier, and that led the way to 2021’s equally praised Copshop. Of course, much of Butler’s bread and butter are movies that don’t necessarily hit with critics but have built an enduring, action-focused audience over his career, including 2006’s 300, RocknRolla, the Fallen series, Law Abiding Citizen, and now Plane. —Alex Vo
99%
Critics Consensus: Boasting dazzling animation, a script with surprising dramatic depth, and thrilling 3-D sequences, How to Train Your Dragon soars.
Synopsis: A misfit Viking teenager sees a chance to change the course of his clan's future when he befriends an injured dragon.
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill
Directed By: Christopher Sanders, Dean DeBlois
92%
Critics Consensus: Exciting, emotionally resonant, and beautifully animated, How to Train Your Dragon 2 builds on its predecessor's successes just the way a sequel should.
Synopsis: Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time charting the island's unmapped territories.... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson
Directed By: Dean DeBlois, Tom Owens
92%
Critics Consensus: Visceral and visually striking, Ralph Fiennes' Coriolanus proves Shakespeare can still be both electrifying and relevant in a modern context.
Synopsis: Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus (Ralph Fiennes), is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Vanessa Redgrave
Directed By: Ralph Fiennes
92%
Critics Consensus: Thanks to some top notch acting, the chemistry between its stars, and a witty, thoughtful script, Mrs. Brown delivers a nuanced and entertaining, if not entirely factual, account of a seldom explored historical relationship.
Synopsis: After the death of her beloved husband, Prince Albert, Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) withdraws from public life, so the court appoints a former servant of... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, Geoffrey Palmer, Antony Sher
Directed By: John Madden
90%
Critics Consensus: The rare trilogy capper that really works, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World brings its saga to a visually dazzling and emotionally affecting conclusion.
Synopsis: When the sudden appearance of a female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must journey to... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Cate Blanchett
Directed By: Dean DeBlois
83%
Critics Consensus: It doesn't add many new ingredients to the genre, but action fans in the mood for an old-school thriller will be happy to buy what Copshop is selling.
Synopsis: On the run from a lethal assassin, a wily con artist devises a scheme to hide out inside a small-town police station--but when the hitman... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Frank Grillo, Alexis Louder, Toby Huss
Directed By: Joe Carnahan
82%
Critics Consensus: Dear Frankie is a small, good-hearted film with fine performances.
Synopsis: Frankie (Jack McElhone) does not know his father because his mother, Lizzie (Emily Mortimer), ran away from the abusive lout when Frankie was just a... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Jack McElhone, Gerard Butler, Sharon Small
Directed By: Shona Auerbach
78%
Critics Consensus: Plane charts a standard action-adventure course with its cruising altitude just a few miles above Direct-to-Video -- but with Gerard Butler in the cockpit, thriller enthusiasts will still find this a fun flight.
Synopsis: In the white-knuckle action movie PLANE, pilot Brodie Torrance (Gerard Butler) saves his passengers from a lightning strike by making a risky landing on a... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Mike Colter, Yoson An, Daniella Pineda
Directed By: Jean-François Richet
77%
Critics Consensus: Crafted with loving fidelity to the animated classic by original co-director Dean DeBlois, How to Train Your Dragon doesn't best the first iteration but still reaches enchanting heights of its own.
Synopsis: On the rugged isle of Berk, where Vikings and dragons have been bitter enemies for generations, Hiccup (Mason Thames; The Black Phone, For All Mankind)... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Mason Thames, Gerard Butler, Nico Parker, Nick Frost
Directed By: Dean DeBlois
77%
Critics Consensus: Beware, comets of Greenland: Gerard Butler is here to protect Earth -- and show audiences an improbably entertaining time.
Synopsis: John Garrity, his estranged wife and their young son embark on a perilous journey to find sanctuary as a planet-killing comet hurtles toward Earth. Amid... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roger Dale Floyd, Scott Glenn
Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh
84%
Critics Consensus: Suspenseful atmosphere, an evocative setting, and a strong cast keep audiences invested throughout The Vanishing's patient approach to unraveling its mystery.
Synopsis: Three lighthouse keepers arrive on an isolated island off the Scottish coast and find an object that becomes the catalyst to a struggle for survival... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson
Directed By: Kristoffer Nyholm
80%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Examining the lives and origins of private soldiers who operate in Iraq and around the world illustrates how they are changing the face of modern... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, P.W. Singer
Directed By: Nick Bicanic, Jason Bourque
62%
Critics Consensus: Pantera trades the original Den of Thieves' self-seriousness for a more winking lightheartedness that doesn't entirely smooth over its familiarity but ought to satisfy those hankering for absolute Dad Cinema.
Synopsis: Gerard Butler (Plane, Has Fallen series) and O’Shea Jackson Jr. (Straight Out of Compton, Godzilla: King of the Monsters) return in the sequel to 2018's... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, O'Shea Jackson Jr., Evin Ahmad, Salvatore Esposito
Directed By: Christian Gudegast
61%
Critics Consensus: A simple-minded but visually exciting experience, full of blood, violence, and ready-made movie quotes.
Synopsis: In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Lena Headey, David Wenham, Dominic West
Directed By: Zack Snyder
60%
Critics Consensus: Mixed reviews for Guy Ritchie's return to his London-based cockney wideboy gangster movie roots, but most agree, it's a step in the right direction following two major turkeys.
Synopsis: Old-school mobster Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) rules London's underworld with an iron fist and a score of well-greased palms. As big-time gangsters and petty crooks... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandiwe Newton, Mark Strong
Directed By: Guy Ritchie
59%
Critics Consensus: Them That Follow never quite captures the spiritual fervor of its setting, but the cast's committed performances make for an intermittently satisfying character study.
Synopsis: Inside a snake-handling church deep in Appalachia, a forbidden relationship forces a pastor's daughter to confront her community's deadly tradition.
Starring: Olivia Colman, Kaitlyn Dever, Alice Englert, Jim Gaffigan
Directed By: Britt Poulton, Daniel Savage
58%
Critics Consensus: A competent, if sometimes by-the-numbers entry to the 007 franchise, Tomorrow Never Dies may not boast the most original plot but its action sequences are genuinely thrilling.
Synopsis: Media mogul Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) wants his news empire to reach every country on the globe, but the Chinese government will not allow him... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh, Teri Hatcher
Directed By: Roger Spottiswoode
49%
Critics Consensus: The world ends more with a whimper in Greenland 2: Migration compared to its predecessor's big bang thrills, but Gerard Butler's sturdy star power keeps this continuation reasonably compelling.
Synopsis: In the aftermath of a comet strike that decimated most of the planet, the Garrity family must leave the safety of their Greenland bunker to... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis, Amber Rose Revah
Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh
54%
Critics Consensus: This adaptation of The Cherry Orchard is too tedious to hold interest.
Synopsis: Set in Russia at the turn of the century, "The Cherry Orchard" chronicles a noblewoman's return to her family estate after a five-year absence to... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Alan Bates, Katrin Cartlidge, Owen Teale
Directed By: Mihalis Kakogiannis
51%
Critics Consensus: Despite good intentions, Nim's Island flounders under an implausible storyline, simplistic stock characters, and distracting product placement.
Synopsis: Life is an adventure for a courageous youngster named Nim, who lives on an exotic island with her marine-biologist father and a menagerie of animal... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster, Gerard Butler, Michael Carman
Directed By: Jennifer Flackett, Mark Levin
50%
Critics Consensus: Despite the impressive Icelandic scenery, Beowulf And Grendel fails to find its footing in the transition from epic tale to the big screen.
Synopsis: In Denmark, during the 6th century, Danish king Hrothgar and his warriors kill a troll whose son, Grendel, vows revenge.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgård, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, Sarah Polley
Directed By: Sturla Gunnarsson
49%
Critics Consensus: It's far from original, but Olympus Has Fallen benefits from Antoine Fuqua's tense direction and a strong performance from Gerard Butler -- which might just be enough for action junkies.
Synopsis: The unthinkable happens when heavily armed and highly trained terrorists launch a bold daytime attack on the White House. The building is overrun, and President... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett
Directed By: Antoine Fuqua
49%
Critics Consensus: Though it presents the war in shockingly gritty, realistic terms, Harrison's Flowers uses such scenes as background for a trite love story.
Synopsis: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Harrison Lloyd (David Strathairn) is missing on assignment and presumed dead in a far-off country. Refusing to accept this, his wife Sarah... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Andie MacDowell, David Strathairn, Elias Koteas, Adrien Brody
Directed By: Élie Chouraqui
43%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Follow the dark and violent path of a man who plunges into a metaphorical hell until he reaches paradise in search of his forbidden and... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, Al Pacino
Directed By: Julian Schnabel
42%
Critics Consensus: Den of Thieves pays energetic homage to classic heist thrillers of the past; unfortunately, it never comes close to living up to its obvious inspirations.
Synopsis: Nick O'Brien is the hard-drinking leader of the Regulators, an elite unit of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Ray Merrimen is the recently paroled... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Pablo Schreiber, O'Shea Jackson Jr., 50 Cent
Directed By: Christian Gudegast
41%
Critics Consensus: Reign of Fire gains some altitude with its pyrotechnic action and a smolderingly campy Matthew McConaughey, but the feature's wings are clipped by a derivative script and visual effects that fizzle out.
Synopsis: In present-day London, 12-year-old Quinn watches as his mother wakes an enormous fire-breathing beast from its centuries-long slumber. Twenty years later, much of the world... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Christian Bale, Matthew McConaughey, Izabella Scorupco, Gerard Butler
Directed By: Rob Bowman
38%
Critics Consensus: Cut from the same rough cloth as its predecessors, Angel Has Fallen rounds out a mostly forgettable action trilogy in fittingly mediocre fashion.
Synopsis: Authorities take Secret Service agent Mike Banning into custody for the failed assassination attempt of U.S. President Allan Trumbull. After escaping from his captors, Banning... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Morgan Freeman, Frederick Schmidt, Danny Huston
Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh
38%
Critics Consensus: Much like the submarine in its story, Hunter Killer cruises the murky action depths, following a perfunctory course into territory that's been charted many times before.
Synopsis: American submarine Capt. Joe Glass is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress in the Arctic Ocean. He soon learns that a secret... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Gary Oldman, Common, Michael Nyqvist
Directed By: Donovan Marsh
32%
Critics Consensus: The music of the night has hit something of a sour note: Critics are calling the screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular musical histrionic, boring, and lacking in both romance and danger. Still, some have praised the film for its sheer spectacle.
Synopsis: From his hideout beneath a 19th century Paris opera house, the brooding Phantom schemes to get closer to vocalist Christine Daae. The Phantom, wearing a... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, Patrick Wilson, Miranda Richardson
Directed By: Joel Schumacher
32%
Critics Consensus: It's sweet, gentle, and affably modest, but Chasing Mavericks is ultimately pulled under by an unconvincing script and a puzzling lack of energy.
Synopsis: When 15-year-old surfing phenomenon Jay Moriarty discovers that the mythic Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, actually exists near his California... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jonny Weston, Elisabeth Shue, Abigail Spencer
Directed By: Curtis Hanson, Michael Apted
28%
Critics Consensus: London Has Fallen traps a talented cast -- and all who dare to see it -- in a mid-1990s basic-cable nightmare of a film loaded with xenophobia and threadbare action-thriller clichés.
Synopsis: After the death of the British prime minister, the world's most powerful leaders gather in London to pay their respects. Without warning, terrorists unleash a... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett
Directed By: Babak Najafi
29%
Critics Consensus: With all of the hyperkinetic action and none of the flair of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor's earlier work, Gamer has little replay value.
Synopsis: Each week Kable, a death-row inmate, battles his fellow prisoners in a violent online game called "Slayers," his every move controlled by a young gamer's... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michael C. Hall, Amber Valletta, Logan Lerman
Directed By: Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor
28%
Critics Consensus: There's a complex man at the center of Machine Gun Preacher but the movie is too shapeless and emotionally vacant to bring his story to life.
Synopsis: Sam Childers (Gerard Butler), a former biker, decides to go to East Africa to help repair homes destroyed by civil war. Transformed by the horrors... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Kathy Baker
Directed By: Marc Forster
26%
Critics Consensus: Unnecessarily violent and unflinchingly absurd, Law Abiding Citizen is plagued by subpar acting and a story that defies reason.
Synopsis: Clyde Shelton is an honorable family man, until the day his wife and daughter are murdered in a home invasion. He hopes for justice, but... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill
Directed By: F. Gary Gray
26%
Critics Consensus: An enthusiastic but ultimately uninspired soccer film.
Synopsis: The U.S. soccer team (Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley, Jay Rodan) are heavy underdogs as they prepare to play the British squad in a 1950 World... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Wes Bentley, Jay Rodan, Gavin Rossdale
Directed By: David Anspaugh
25%
Critics Consensus: Hilary Swank is miscast as the romantic lead in this clichéd film about loss and love.
Synopsis: When Gerry (Gerard Butler), the husband of Holly Kennedy (Hilary Swank), dies from an illness, she loses the love of her life. Knowing how hard... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Hilary Swank, Gerard Butler, Lisa Kudrow, Gina Gershon
Directed By: Richard LaGravenese
24%
Critics Consensus: Though the sequel is an improvement over the first movie, it's still lacking in thrills.
Synopsis: Fearless explorer Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) tries to locate Pandora's box before criminals Jonathan Reiss (Ciarán Hinds) and Chen Lo (Simon Yam) use it for... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Angelina Jolie, Gerard Butler, Ciarán Hinds, Chris Barrie
Directed By: Jan de Bont
19%
Critics Consensus: This retelling trys to offer a different spin on the origin of Dracula. Unfortunately, there's nothing here audiences haven't seen before.
Synopsis: Long ago, Abraham Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer) imprisoned the infamous Count Dracula (Gerard Butler) within a vault inside Carfax Abbey. In the present day, Van... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Christopher Plummer, Gerard Butler, Jonny Lee Miller, Justine Waddell
Directed By: Patrick Lussier
18%
Critics Consensus: Lacking impressive visuals, well-written characters, or involving drama, Geostorm aims for epic disaster-movie spectacle but ends up simply being a disaster of a movie.
Synopsis: After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Alexandra Maria Lara
Directed By: Dean Devlin
17%
Critics Consensus: A Family Man has some worthy ideas, but they're bungled in a middle-of-the-road melodrama populated by thinly sketched -- and occasionally downright unlikeable -- characters.
Synopsis: Dane Jensen is a hard-driven headhunter who works at a cutthroat firm. When his boss pits him against the equally driven Lynn Vogel, Dane gears... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Gretchen Mol, Alison Brie, Anupam Kher
Directed By: Mark Williams
17%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Fifty years ago, Sir Richard Turkel (Christopher Lee) met disaster while exploring the supposedly cursed tomb of the ancient Egyptian tyrant Talos. Now his granddaughter,... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jason Scott Lee, Louise Lombard, Sean Pertwee, Lysette Anthony
Directed By: Russell Mulcahy
15%
Critics Consensus: Look on Gods of Egypt, ye filmgoers, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay of this colossal wreck, boundless and bare. The lone and level sands stretch far away. (Apologies to Shelley.)
Synopsis: The survival of mankind hangs in the balance when Set, the merciless god of darkness, usurps Egypt's throne and plunges the prosperous empire into chaos... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Brenton Thwaites, Chadwick Boseman, Elodie Yung
Directed By: Alex Proyas
14%
Critics Consensus: Despite the best efforts of Butler and Heigl, The Ugly Truth suffers from a weak script that relies on romantic comedy formula, with little charm or comedic payoff.
Synopsis: Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a lovelorn TV producer who, despite a long and arduous search for the perfect mate, is hopelessly single. The battle... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Eric Winter, John Michael Higgins
Directed By: Robert Luketic
14%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: After Will Spann's wife suddenly vanishes at a gas station, his desperate search to find her leads him down a dark path that forces him... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jaimie Alexander, Russell Hornsby, Dani Deette
Directed By: Brian Goodman
13%
Critics Consensus: Gerard Butler and Jennifer Aniston remain as attractive as ever, but The Bounty Hunter's formula script doesn't know what to do with them -- or the audience's attention.
Synopsis: Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, thinks he's seeing an upswing in fortune when he gets a call to bring in his bail-jumping... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler, Christine Baranski, Jason Sudeikis
Directed By: Andy Tennant
13%
Critics Consensus: This incoherently plotted addition to the time-travel genre looks and sounds cheesy.
Synopsis: While working at the site of an archaeological dig, Professor Johnston (Billy Connolly) stumbles into a wormhole and plunges back in time to 14th-century France.... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, Gerard Butler, Billy Connolly
Directed By: Richard Donner
6%
Critics Consensus: Witless, unfocused, and arguably misogynistic, Playing for Keeps is a dispiriting, lowest-common-denominator Hollywood rom-com.
Synopsis: Long past his soccer-playing heyday, George Dryer (Gerard Butler) is struggling financially and failing in his attempt to reconcile with his ex-wife, Stacie (Jessica Biel),... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Gerard Butler, Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones
Directed By: Gabriele Muccino
5%
Critics Consensus: A star-studded turkey, Movie 43 is loaded with gleefully offensive and often scatological gags, but it's largely bereft of laughs.
Synopsis: Twelve directors, including Peter Farrelly, Griffin Dunne and Brett Ratner, contributed to this collection of outrageous spoofs and stories. A seemingly perfect man has an... View Full Synopsis
Starring: Elizabeth Banks, Kristen Bell, Halle Berry, Leslie Bibb
Directed By: Steven Brill, Peter Farrelly, Will Graham, Steve Carr



