WWE Studios have come a long way since it was making just cheap action movies for their wrestlers to star in. Of course, at the start, it was a co-production as their very first credit was the sequel to The Mummy with The Scorpion King, giving The Rock a Hollywood starring role. However, for much of the next decade, it was all about churning out terrible B-movies.

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With everyone from Triple H and John Cena to The Miz and Randy Orton getting a chance to star in bad action movies or unfunny comedies, there was little light to see at the end of the tunnel. However, things changed when WWE decided to use their studio to make movies for real actors and only offer smaller roles to their superstars. Here is a look at the five best WWE Studios movies ever and the five worst.

10 THE CHAPERONE - WORST

Triple H, Acting, WWE Studios, The Chaperone

It is a good thing that Triple H found his calling as the man who built the best wrestling brand in WWE with NXT. Outside of his skills as an aging professional wrestler, WWE wanted to push him into movie roles as well. He played a significant role in a Marvel movie when he portrayed a vampire in Blade: Trinity.

However, he also had two starring roles that both appear on this list. The Chaperone was a 2011 WWE Studios movie that starred Triple H as a former wheelman who wants to go straight to do right by his family but who is lured in for "one last job" but backs out and leaves his crew high and dry. They then seek revenge when he takes on the role as a chaperone for his daughter's school field trip.

9 FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY - BEST

Fighting with My Family - Still

Released in 2019 and promoted hard by Dwayne Johnson, Fighting with My Family is the life story of WWE superstar Paige and her trip from her family's U.K. promotion to the WWE, all while leaving her brother — who also has WWE aspirations — behind.

The cast was excellent, with Florence Pugh as Paige and supporting cast members, including Lena Headey, Nick Frost, Vince Vaughn, and The Rock. The film premiered at Sundance and was a commercial and critical hit when it reached theaters.

8 KNUCKLEHEAD - WORST

Big Show is a funny guy and has proven to be a great addition to a cast in a supporting role, such as the movie Waterboy and the TV show Psych. However, when he starred in the WWE Studios 2010 movie Knucklehead, it was a low point in his acting career.

The movie starred Big Show as a 35-year-old orphan named Walter — who still lives in the orphanage. After he accidentally burns down the kitchen, the state threatens to shut the orphanage down if it is not fixed, and Walter gets a job as a fighter to earn money to help. Actor Dennis Farina (Law & Order) called it the most embarrassing movie of his career.

7 OCULUS - BEST

The movie that made people start to take WWE Studios seriously was the horror film Oculus. Unlike most of their output to this time, Oculus was not a vehicle for wrestlers. Instead, Karen Gillian (Doctor Who, Guardians of the Galaxy) stars as a woman who believes a mirror is responsible for death and misfortune in her family.

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Oculus got its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2013 and was one of the first WWE movies to receive positive critical acclaim. The film was a box office success and was a terrifying and intelligent horror movie by Mike Flanagan, who went on to make the Netflix series The Haunting of Hill House.

6 LEPRECHAUN: ORIGINS - WORST

Unfortunately, one year after making the critically acclaimed horror movie Oculus, WWE Studios went back to what it did worst — it made a horror movie as a vehicle for one of their superstars. Leprechaun: Origins took the iconic horror baddie and replaced Warwick Davis with Hornswoggle in the leading role.

WWE Studios, to their credit, tried to make the movie darker and scarier than the comic-tinged Leprechaun series later efforts. However, that did not make for a good movie. It ended up with a one-week theatrical engagement and then went straight to video on demand. The film has a zero-percent Rotten Tomatoes rating.

5 THE CALL - BEST

Released the same year as Oculus, The Call also came out in 2013 as a movie that was more about making a great film than about promoting a WWE superstar. While the movie did feature WWE superstar David Otunga, this was a starring vehicle for Halle Berry.

Berry starred as a 911 operator who received a call from a teenage girl (Zombieland's Abigail Breslin) who was kidnapped by a serial killer. Also starring in the movie is Morris Chestnut (Boyz in the Hood) and Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos). The Call was WWE Studios' most commercially successful film at the time.

4 INSIDE OUT - WORST

Triple H, Michael Rapaport, Movie

In 2015, Pixar released what might be its greatest animated movie in Inside Out. Four years before that, Triple H starred in a film by the same name, one of the worst in WWE Studios' history. Just like his other movie on this list, Triple H starred as a former criminal, this time an ex-con.

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Triple H is AJ, a man who gets out of prison and heads home to protect his daughter and the woman he loves from his former best friend. The cast is decent, with Parker Posey as the woman AJ loves, Michael Rapaport as the former friend, and Bruce Dern as Rapaport's dad. Sadly, the script and direction destroyed any chance of the movie to succeed.

3 NO ONE LIVES - BEST

Released in 2013, No One Lives did star Brodus Clay, but he took on a small role in the overall storyline of this film. Instead, this film starred Luke Evans as a man known only as Driver, who was driving cross-country with a woman. When a group of bad guys captures them, everything goes wrong.

The woman commits suicide, and the bad guys find a kidnapped girl in the trunk of the Driver's car. That is when they realize they messed with the wrong person as he makes sure, by the end, no one lives. The movie is pure horror schlock but is highly entertaining for fans of the genre.

2 THE MARINE - WORST

The Marine

The Marine was John Cena's chance to prove he could be a Hollywood star. While Cena has since proven to be a bankable commodity thanks to movies like the last Transformers film Bumblebee, his early efforts were rough, to say the least. The Marine was a success, but it was not a good movie.

Released in 2006, Cena stars as a former Master Sergeant honorably discharged for disregarding direct orders to save hostages in Iraq. At home, his wife is kidnapped by a criminal (Robert Patrick) and sets out to use his unique skills — which includes jumping through a clearly fake explosion — to save her. There have been five sequels.

1 THE RUNDOWN - BEST

Not all B-grade action movies are created equally. As a matter of fact, one of the earliest WWE Studios movies was a straight action flick and was a ton of fun, arguably even a great movie. The Rundown was one of Dwayne Johnson's early efforts as he starred as a bounty bunter sent to South America to bring back the son of a man he works for.

The movie is excellent for several reasons. Johnson has great chemistry with co-star Seann William Scott, who portrays the man he is sent to retrieve. The movie was also directed by Peter Berg, who is a top-notch director (Friday Night Lights), and this is the film that proved The Rock could carry a movie and be a Hollywood star.

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