Every Single Will Smith Movie, Ranked From Worst to Best (2025)

Role: Cypher Raige

The big twist in this M. Night Shaymalan joint is that the very bad planet Will and Jaden Smith are on is actually Earth! Unfortunately, that's spoiled in both the movie title and the trailer. Which makes it easy to skip!

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Role: Ben

YOU DO NOT WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS MOVIE IS CALLED SEVEN POUNDS. SERIOUSLY.

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Role: Judge

Do you remember Winter’s Tale? Neither do I! But it’s a film where Will Smith is randomly, like, the devil or something.

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Role: Howard

Will Smith had the best of intentions here: to release something happy and uplifting in the extremely shitty year of 2016. Unfortunately, this film was just as bad as everything else that year.

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Role: Detective Mike Lowrey

Did you see the first Bad Boys and think to yourself, “I could definitely benefit from more of this”? Then this film is for you!

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Role: Henry Brogan / Jackson Brogan

This Ang Lee sci-fi action thriller had a few fun moments with Will Smith playing a crack-shot sniper assassin who has to face his own clone, but it’s nowhere close to Smith’s best action role, and should have been way, way cooler with that concept.

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Role: Genie

Here's a real thing that happened. Guy Ritchie directed a live action version of Aladdin in 2019 where Smith stars as the Genie who just blue himself. It also became the No. 6 top grossing movie of the year. What a dark time for Hollywood.

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Role: Deadshot

This film has the same Rotten Tomatoes score as The Room.

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Role: Bagger Vance

In a different time, Will Smith as the titular golf coach might have been a heartwarming film, but The Legend of Bagger Vance has not aged well nearly two decades later.

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Role: Daryl Ward

A movie created by a Netflix algorithm based off your interest in Men in Black, Bad Boys, and The Lord of the Rings.

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Role: Detective Mike Lowery

Ready for a stunning plot twist? Bad Boys For Life… it’s yet another Bad Boys movie made almost twenty years later! There’s plenty of fan service here but it’s still a fun watch even if you have no clue what’s going on. Did you spot the Michael Bay cameo?

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Role: Tea Cake Walters

Will Smith, still in his Fresh Prince days, is the only funny part of this otherwise unfunny rom-com.

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Role: Lance sterling

Smith hadn’t made an animation for years since Shark Tale, and he packs a ton of personality in his super-spy character Lance Sterling. It’s a pretty by-the-numbers spy story, but extremely well animated and a fun time all around.

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Role: James West

Honestly, this is ranked higher than it should be mostly because the titular Willennium gem "Wild Wild West" absolutely slaps.

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Role: Jay

In a little bit of role reversal, Smith’s Jay is inducting Tommy Lee Jones’s K into the Men in Black club. Unfortunately, this scenario is far less interesting than the original.

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Role: Manny

In his feature length debut, Smith played a crippled homeless homeless man. And it was all uphill from there.

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Role: Nicky

Before they were two super villains, Smith and Margot Robbie were two pretty charming cons.

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Role: Mike Lowrey

Even though there’s hardly anything memorable about the general plot of Bad Boys, it did firmly establish Will Smith as a full-fledged movie star.

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Role: Hancock

What any of us would be if we were an actual superhero.

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Role: Del Spooner

In hindsight, Smith’s adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s film—three years before the release of the iPhone—seems entirely prescient. Now there are literally vacuum robots called iRobots.

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