10. Street Fighter (1995)
Tomatometer: 15 percent

You would think that a wildly popular videogame about nothing but fighting would be the perfect inspiration for a Jean-Claude Van Damme movie -- especially given that one of the game's characters was inspired by the role Van Damme played in Bloodsport. Sadly, however, 1995's Street Fighter missed whatever opportunity it may have had to capture the quarter-gobbling magic of the arcade hit, and instead went down as a project frequently discussed among the worst films of all time. It didn't have to be this way -- although a fighting game probably isn't the best place to look for the building blocks of a successful screenplay, Street Fighter still could have been a passable 90-minute collection of fighting scenes, rather than the overstuffed mess that Variety's Emanuel Levy deemed "far less captivating than the videogame that inspired it." To be completely fair to the film, there is a certain undeniable pleasure in watching Raul Julia (in what was, unfortunately, his final film performance) ham it up as the megalomaniacal M. Bison -- and it was ultimately profitable. Perhaps more telling, though, is the fact that it was one of Van Damme's last high-profile theatrical releases.

9. Universal Soldier (1992)
Tomatometer: 23 percent

In which our hero faces off against the erstwhile Ivan Drago in a story about cryogenically frozen Vietnam vets whose bodies are reanimated to take part in the top-secret Universal Soldier program. They aren't supposed to remember that they hated each other in their former lives, but -- uh-oh! -- the program's mad-scientist founder (played by an understandably melancholy Jerry Orbach) must not have carried a one somewhere, because the memories return, and stuff starts to go boom. As an early Roland Emmerich project, Universal Soldier is sort of fascinating -- it proves that even with a budget in the $20 million range, Emmerich would find a way to make almost everything explode eventually -- and in the context of the times, it offers an example of what the action-movie team-up craze that started in the 1980s ended up looking like as ideas started to run out. Despite largely negative-to-lukewarm reviews -- typified by the Washington Post's Richard Harrington, who waved it off as "enjoyable in a mindless way" -- Soldier raked in over $100 million worldwide; Van Damme reprised his role in 1999's Dolph Lundgren-less (and far less successful) Universal Soldier: The Return.