Most Underrated Comic Book Movies

Let's talk about those comic book films which were completely overlooked and underrated!
The Top Ten
1 Watchmen

Love this movie. Well acted, written, shot, directed and with heavy thematic substance to boot as well. It's the sort of movie that isn't made much these days, and we're all the poorer for it. Forget the MCU and The Dark Knight. THIS is the best superhero film of all time.

It would have been a box-office Smash if it came out today, how on Earth did Jackie Earle Haley not even get nominated for an Academy Award for his role of Rorschach, but Oh My God that performance gave me chills!

Was gonna give it to the punisher before I saw this, absolutely supurb movie and a great action comic book (graphic novel I know) iteration at that. Awesome job!

This movie is VERY underrated, the acting is phenomenal and is 10 times better than any of todays superhero movies.

2 Hulk

I think this film was real underrated masterpiece. Eric Bana and Jennifer Connelly did a very good job. The effects looked stunning, the storyline included many dramatic but very nice moments

By far the best hulk! Why is this so hated? This movie holds my favorite. superhero movie moment ever, the tank in the desert.

This one was great! There was a couple of goofs here and there, but overall, this doesn't deserve the hate it got.

3 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice

This is what I mean by Zack Snyder doing scene after scene randomly. Batman v Superman had one of the most razzie wins with Hillary's America: The Secret History Of The Democratic Party. Even Suicide Squad won an oscar. Batman V Superman never did. And Jesse Eisenberg deserves a razzie

I'd say this is about even with Civil War. This feels darker, yet CW more balanced. Both overstuffed, but both good enough for me.

I would feel okay if it had mixed reviews rather than negative

4 Punisher (2004)

I Don't Why People Criticize This Movie So Much What Do They Criticize it for, The Movie Had Great Action Scenes,Thomas Jane Was The Perfect Casting Choice for The Punisher and Best of all it had a KILLER SOUNDTRACK

5 Spider-Man 3

Agreed. Hugely underrated. Found it to be a satisfying closure to the trilogy with enough action, character and story to keep you entertained. Sure it was overstuffed but it was well written enough to give each element enough screentime, and at least developed it's three villains somewhat (unlike the overrated Scott Pilgrim which couldn't do the job with 7). It's a great finisher to an excellent trilogy.

I admit some parts are weird ( dance scenes, crowd reactions...) but overall it was an action packed entertaining movie with heart and with symbiote being a great obstacle for peter both mentally and physical and sandman story was great too, very touching..

I preferred this to Spider Man 2, one of the most overrated films of all time. In this the effects were better, and everything felt more exciting. Otherwise, I'd take Amazing Spider Man films and Spider Man 1 any day.

A satisfying closure to what will be the one of the greatest superhero movie trilogies

6 Daredevil

Dark, edgy, with great direction, and stayed true to the source material.

I enjoyed this to an extent

7 Batman Returns

This is my second favourite Batman movie (After Batman 1989), and has the Best Batman Movie Villain of all time - Danny DeVito's Penguin.

Honestly, I think this is the greatest Batman movie ever. Seriously, and Michael Keaton is the best Batman ever and Michelle Pfeiffer shines as Catwoman

By far the best superhero movie! Everything is just perfect... The music, sets, acting, cinematography, atmosphere... The's a lot more than you can say about the messy Nolan trilogy! If you want the true dark knight tune here... It doesn't get any better than this!

Honestly, I just watched this masterpiece and it’s one of my favourite movies ever. - BlazingParasol

8 Batman Forever
9 Dredd

A more faithful adaptation of Judge Dredd than the 1995 Sylvester Stallone version. It could've done better at the box office if the screenings weren't limited to 3D-only.

10 X-Men: The Last Stand

No, really don't think so. Start was good, but then when Singer left everything went downhill. Only slight saving graces were Grammar's Beast, Wolverine and Iceman.

Much better than people give it credit for.

The Contenders
11 Hellboy

"Hellboy" is one of those rare movies that's not only based off of a comic book, but also feels like a comic book.

12 The Shadow

The Shadow is one of the best super-hero films ever made. A sleek, noir adventure full of action, intrigue, truly evil villians, and one bombshell of a heroine. the Shadow is not one to be missed.

An absolutely brilliant movie and totally underrated. A perfect 10/10. Simply one of the best movies ever made. A masterpiece of art.

13 Iron Man 2

Criminally Underrated! There is still a lot of heart and the story is great and funny and Robert Downey jr., as always kills it as Iron Man

It wasn't awful, just not great either. Kind of a dumb fun movie. First one far superior.

SPECTACULAR

Not as good the original but still a fun film. One of the complaints people gave this film was that it was to sad to see Tony be an alcoholic but that’s a key part of the character, and had to be done in one of the films.

14 Green Lantern

This is really good!

15 Blade
16 Batman Begins
17 The Punisher (1989)

OK, Dolph Lundgren isn't superb actor but he did a phenomenal job here. He's definitely the best actor who played Punisher. And the movie was great but still very underrated

18 X-Men Origins: Wolverine

A solid Wolverine Origin story that has a FANTASTIC LEAD, a likeable love interest and a lot of heart.

19 Fantastic Four (2015)

This is a grossly misunderstood movie. It is not as bad as everyone thinks. I mean come on. Some people think the originals are better. The thing looks quite good and there are some solid performances in there

I'm sorry but no this one sorta left out way too much and left the comics completely

OH...MY...GOSH! Why is this awful film on here?

20 Spawn

The movie is dark, funny and interesting as hell. Visual effects were great too

21 Kick-Ass
22 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

This is an awesome movie.

23 Blade Trinity

Reynolds brought great comic relief to the movie that contrary to popular belief, was great for the movie. Blade sticks to his cold hearted and unemotional ways while someone else brings a little comedy to the show. Jessica Biel was great as always

24 V for Vendetta

Better than the book
Should have stolen Oscar instead of "the departed"

A great comic book movie with a good message.

25 Suicide Squad
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