Gore Verbinski is one of the most talented filmmakers in Hollywood. Almost three decades have passed since the beginning of his career as a director in cinema, and during this time, he has tried his hand in various genres, from family films to drama and horror, and even made music videos for “Bad Religion” and “Vicious Rumors”. As one of the 30 best-selling directors of all time, Gore Verbinski is the director of a popular Japanese horror remake, a blockbuster Disney trilogy, and an Academy Award-winning animated western. However, during the past decade, Gore Verbinski had disappeared from the scene after directing The Lone Ranger and A Cure for Wellness, both of which failed at the box office. Now, Verbinski is back with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die. His new film is an absurdist sci-fi action comedy about a disheveled man from the future (Sam Rockwell) who, along with six customers from a Los Angeles restaurant, tries to stop a rogue artificial intelligence from taking over Earth.
During these thirty years, Gore Verbinski has experienced many ups and downs in Hollywood, but today critics call “Good luck, have fun, don’t die” as the most unique film of Verbinski’s career, which shows that this director is not going to lose his breath. In the following, we will review all Gore Verbinski’s films from the worst to the best, of course, all of them have somehow caused a stir in the cinema industry.
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Rating of Gore Verbinski’s films; From “Pirates of the Caribbean” to “The Ring”
11. The Mexican
- Release year: 2001
- Actors: Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, James Gandolfini, JK Simmons
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 6.1 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 54 out of 100
Most of Gore Verbinski’s films lean toward the fantasy and surreal genres, but one look at the movie poster is enough to tell you that “Mexican” is a big-budget romantic adventure starring two of Hollywood’s biggest stars, both in the early 2000s and today. So, it’s not really surprising that the movie has done so well at the box office.
In the film, Brad Pitt plays a small-time criminal tasked with crossing the Mexican border to retrieve a mysterious cursed pistol known as the Mexican. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, played by Julia Roberts, who is tired of crime and wants to move to Las Vegas from her lover, finds herself in trouble with the law.
“Mexican” certainly has some original ideas, but it becomes boring due to its very slow plot and running time of 123 minutes. Gore Verbinski could not cope well with the duo of Pitt and Roberts in “Mexican”. More than half of the story, their characters are separated, which is ironically for everyone’s benefit; Because none of the actors show their best in this movie. If they were together the whole time, we wouldn’t have James Gandolfini’s character, which is arguably the best (and maybe only) good part of the movie. The late actor of “The Sopranos” plays the role of a dangerous assassin. But even he can’t save the movie from being boring. Ultimately, “Mexican” disappointed moviegoers who, based on its misleading advertising, thought they were in for a romantic adventure.
10. The Lone Ranger
- Release year: 2013
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Armie Hammer, William Fickner, Helena Bonham Carter, Barry Pepper
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 6.4 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 31 out of 100
Disney has never been able to let go of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, which makes perfect sense given that it was one of Disney’s most profitable IPs. However, all their efforts have failed miserably. From “Tomorrowland” to “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time”, “John Carter”, they all failed at the box office, and even “Jungle Cruise”, which to some extent approached the glamorous magic of Gore Verbinski’s films, could not find a proper sequel.
Disney decided that if there was a formula for success, it was the formula of Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp, who were able to make three great and successful films with the successful “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise. So, Disney reunited Verbinski and Depp; This time to make what was clearly an attempt to make a Western version of Pirates of the Caribbean, which ended up being Verbinski’s last collaboration with Disney.
The Lone Ranger is a classic Wild West action adventure starring Johnny Depp as Tonto and Armie Hammer as the original masked cowboy. This film had a staggering budget, production problems plagued it, and controversies followed the release of the film. The film’s commercial failure marked the end of Verbinski’s collaboration with Disney, and since then, its two main stars, Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, have been repeatedly dissed on social media. But the film’s problems are not only related to its edges. The film is unnecessarily exaggerated and casting Depp as a Native American seems a strange choice. However, the long train sequence at the end of the film is one of the most impressive action scenes of the 21st century and is worth seeing.
9. Mouse Hunt
- Release year: 1997
- Actors: Nathan Lane, Vicky Lewis, Lee Evans, Christopher Walken
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 6.5 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 50 out of 100
“Mouse Hunt” is Gore Verbinski’s first directorial experience; A children’s movie that is fun for adults too. You can consider it a combination of the mood of Tim Burton’s Beeltejuice and Home Alone, where instead of two thieves and a child, the main characters are two Coden brothers and a mouse. Although Nathan Lane and Lee Evans make a great comedy couple as two brothers, the real star of the movie is the mouse; Especially when you see that they used a real mouse for this character and there is no animation or computer special effects in it.
As Gore Verbinski’s first feature film, “Mouse Hunt” is a funny work with all the hallmarks of a good nineties comedy. The story of “Mouse Hunt” follows two clumsy brothers, Lane and Evans, who inherit a dilapidated mansion from their late father, a wealthy and influential man. While trying to sort things out, the two get into an all-out and devastating war with the mouse that lives in the mansion, leading to all sorts of hilarious antics. Although this Tom and Jerry-style fun mayhem doesn’t have a great story, it’s a decent children’s movie that will keep you entertained.
8. The Weather Man
- Release year: 2005
- Actors: Nicolas Cage, Michael Caine, Hope Davis, Nicholas Hoult
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 6.5 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 60 out of 100
These days, people are used to seeing Nicolas Cage’s crazy moves on the movie screen; His daring and exaggerated performances have been immortalized in action and horror films such as “Face/Off”, “Con Air”, “Mandy” and many others, which makes “The Meteorologist” different from all recent Cage films. However, Gore Verbinski managed to get a performance out of Nic Cage that showcases his abilities as a fine film actor. If you can get along with the film’s dry and soulless and sometimes even annoying humor, you will enjoy watching “The Meteorologist” immensely.
This is a movie about a man who is struggling to survive. David Spritz is a meteorologist in Chicago’s Cage who is struggling with a midlife crisis despite his impending promotion. David is eager to please his father and wants to be the best meteorologist possible. But luck is not on his side. His job causes him to be hated by the public, his daughter is rejected by her peers, and the girl feels ashamed and humiliated because of her father. However, the film is never that depressing and you end up liking Nic Cage’s character and you admire him just for trying.
Spritz has a sympathetic personality that Cage’s performance complements his inner struggles. Verbinski uses his cold, blue-tinted cinematography, which he used to great effect in The Ring, to emphasize the Chicago winter. Dramas are obviously not Gore Verbinski’s forte, but The Weatherman works well as a brooding character study with a calm tone, dry sense of black comedy, and none of Cage’s famous level of enthusiasm.
7. A Cure for Wellness
- Release year: 2016
- Actors: Dean DeHaan, Mia Guth, Jason Isaacs, Harry Gruner
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 6.4 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 42 out of 100
“A Cure for Health” highlights Verbinski’s interest in queer genres. The film is a shocking psychological thriller, but an unsuccessful attempt at creating a multi-layered horror story, which marked one of Mia Guth’s first appearances in horror films.
This gothic horror film is set in a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps and begins with a young man (Dean DeHaan) tasked with getting the CEO of his company out of the institution. But after a horrific car accident, DeHaan’s character finds himself in this very institution, from which there seems to be no escape. Gradually, he discovers terrifying secrets about the nature of this mysterious place.
“Therapy for Health” is visually beautiful and ambitious. Gore Verbinski returns to the cold and soulless color combination in the ‘Ring’ style, which alone is enough to make your hair stand on end. However, with its running time of 147 minutes, the film tests your patience with body horror and breaking cultural taboos. Undoubtedly, the “20th Century Fox” company did not think that a movie in which Jason Isaacs practically sucks the juice of the rich and wants to impregnate his own daughter can be successful at the box office. However, if you’re not in the mood for such taboo-breaking and want to see Verbinski’s visual talent at its peak, check out Cure for Health.
6. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
- Release year: 2007
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Cho Yunfat, Jonathan Pryce
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 6.4 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 42 out of 100
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End is a little too chaotic to live up to the first or even the second film, but Verbinski provided a fitting and heartwarming conclusion to the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Especially later, he showed how important his role, along with Bloom and Knightley, was for this franchise; Because “World’s End” is basically the last “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie, it doesn’t scream from a hundred kilometers that Disney made it just for the money.
At the time of the film’s release, some criticized its almost three-hour length, which is not unusual for a film that is full of action scenes and in the opening scene of which a child is hanged. But unlike A Cure, which suffers from its long running time, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End makes the most of every moment.
The story of “The End of the World” begins where “Dead Man’s Box” ended. As Jack is rescued from the grave by his brave crew, Davy Jones and the British Navy strive to establish their dominance of the world’s oceans, only to be thwarted by an alliance of pirate lords. With the story becoming more political and the relationships between the pirate lords, and the introduction of the two main villains, the story of “World’s End” is a bit more complicated than the first two films; But the film has nothing less than the first films in terms of Gore Verbinski’s ingenuity and creativity; From the oceans of the earth to the fun maps of heroes that bypass each other again and again. What a shame that Disney tarnished his legacy by continuing the franchise without Verbinski.
5. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
- Release year: 2026
- Actors: Sam Rockwell, Haley Lou Richardson, Juno Temple, Zazy Beetz
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 7.5 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 84 out of 100
After a long hiatus, Gore Verbinski has returned to the cinema this year with “Good luck, have fun and don’t die”; An absurdist sci-fi action movie about a man who returns from the future to the past to warn people about artificial intelligence. Verbinski could not have chosen a hotter subject for his film.
In addition to the fact that the film deals with the issues of our modern world, it also deals with them well. Kids glued to their phones and turning into real-life zombies, school shootings and many people’s concerns about the normalization of these shootings, virtual reality, and most importantly, the dangers of artificial intelligence, are all found in Good Luck, Have Fun, and Don’t Die. The tone of the film can be considered a combination of “Everything, everywhere, at once” (Everything Everywhere All at Once) and the best episodes of “Black Mirror” (Black Mirror), which is different from today’s studio and big-budget films; The kind of movies that no artificial intelligence or algorithm can make. “Good Luck, Have Fun, and Don’t Die” features a soulful performance by Sam Rockwell, complemented by Zazy Beetz, Haley Lou Richardson, and Juno Temple, making it an energetic bomb that’s sure to find new fans and viewers over the years.
4. Rango
- Release year: 2011
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, Alfred Molina, Isla Fisher, Bill Nye
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 7.3 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 88 out of 100
After making the Disney trilogy, Gore Verbinski switched from pirate movies to the western genre; But before he tried his hand in westerns with live-action films such as “The Lone Ranger”, he went to animation. Paying homage to the film Chinatown, Rango follows the story of a troubled chameleon who somehow escapes the Mojave Desert.
It is surprising that “Rango” was released under the Nickelodeon name, as it is more suitable for adults than children. In one scene, one member of the group tells Rango, “I found a human spine in my poop once,” and in another, Rango tells Isla Fisher’s character, Baines, “There’s no need to panic, but I think you’ve just swallowed Plan B.” There are even jokes about the prostate, as well as a reference to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Jokes like these are a testament to the fact that adults can still enjoy Rango for decades to come. Freed from the constraints of live-action filmmaking, Verbinski creates amazing scenes in “Rango” made memorable by his soundtrack. With “Rango”, Verbinski had the opportunity to bring his talent for mixing genres and concentrated emotions to the screen in the best way.
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
- Release year: 2006
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nye, Stellan Skashgaard
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 7.4 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 53 out of 100
The first Pirates of the Caribbean film is the most critically acclaimed film in the series, but Verbinski’s footprint is most evident in its sequels. Dead Man’s Chest and World’s End, which were shot back-to-back and were the most expensive films ever made, are titles that, in Gore Verbinski’s own words, only come true when Disney doesn’t have much time to oversee your film. The result is Lovecraft’s monsters that take a bite out of a ship and the people on it. At the same time, sequences that mix the most advanced computer special effects with old comedy in the style of Buster Keaton. It’s an example of purposeful chaos that Verbinski re-enacted today with “Good Luck, Have Fun, and Don’t Die.” However, the best example of this can still be found in Dead Man’s Chest, which as an action franchise is better than any superhero movie.
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest feels more like the first half of a five-hour narrative than the middle chapter of a trilogy; An incident that raised the voices of some viewers and critics. But like “The End of the World,” “Dead Man’s Chest” remains one of Disney’s best movies, with unforgettable scenes like the bone cages and, of course, the final moments with Davy Jones, never a dull moment. Speaking of Jones, even though Captain Barbossa is a top-notch villain, Bill Nye’s performance by Jones is even better than him. The CGI used to bring him to life in 2006 is better than many of the digital images we see in today’s most expensive films, and Nye portrays the character well, with all his seething anger and heartbreak.
2. The Ring
- Release year: 2002
- Actors: Naomi Watts, David Dorfman, Martin Henderson, Davy Chase
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 7.1 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 72 out of 100
It’s rare for American remakes of foreign horror stories to turn out well, but “The Ring” is such a good horror movie that it’s been overlooked for a long time, but none of them managed to recreate the same magic. During the remake of Japanese horror films for Hollywood, “The Grudge” was one of the most famous, but even that does not reach the charm and horror of Gore Verbinski’s film.
The movie “Ring” is based on the best-selling Japanese movie “Ringo” and has a similar story. The story is about a journalist who is sent by his grieving sister to discover the truth behind her daughter’s death; A death apparently rooted in a legend about a cursed videotape. As Samara’s horrific story unfolds, this true curse is revealed.
With its green-blue visual palette, the film “The Ring” succeeds in recreating the same horror of the original classic film, and at the same time, beyond the one-to-one translation for the English-speaking audience, Verbinski himself has added elements to the film. For example, with Verbinski’s film, you always feel suffocated and dizzy; As if you are drowning yourself.
Gore Verbinski made a huge contribution to the genre with “The Ring” and inspired a new generation of horror filmmakers. Given his mastery of creating creepy atmospheres and surprising horror scenes (which are few and far between), it’s a wonder why he didn’t make more horror films.
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
- Release year: 2003
- Actors: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Jack Donport
- Score of website users IMDb to the movie: 8.1 out of 10
- Rating of Rotten Tomatoes website to the movie: 79 out of 100
Six years before Disney acquired Marvel, the studio took a big risk and took inspiration from a theme park to make its first blockbuster in thirteen years. While “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” could be considered a family entertainer, Verbinski, fresh off his critically acclaimed adaptation of “The Ring,” didn’t shy away from bringing in truly terrifying images, such as the ill-fated crew of the Black Pearl turning into skeletons under the moonlight. With scenes like these, Verbinski challenged the boundaries of what we most considered a Disney film in The Curse of the Black Pearl, entertaining and disorienting audiences in equal measure.
From the first moment that Captain Jack Sparrow appears in the movie “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl”, it is clear that Johnny Depp was born to play this role. Every dialogue becomes more fun and energetic with a certain playfulness that only Johnny Depp can handle. Along with Depp’s lasting performance, Geoffrey Rush gives a brilliant account as Captain Barbossa, and the romantic relationship between Will Turner and Elizabeth Swann complements them.
It may be hard to believe today, but former Disney CEO Michael Eisner was so convinced that The Curse of the Black Pearl would fail (especially after Mission to Mars and The Country Bears failed at the box office) that he wanted to stop production. However, “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” not only became the fourth highest-grossing film of 2003, but also launched a multimillion-dollar franchise that, if recent rumors are true, still has hope for a comeback.
Source: Comicbook
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