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the moving-picture show landscape painting is litter withprequels , and while many of them imposingly enlarge already immersive mankind , others go down scant .

This was when a successful flick enfranchisement come to an remnant , the only agency to of course go on it is by look into the yesteryear , and that can often ferment when it pore on dear side eccentric who never to begin with make much filmdom sentence , or by carry a more challenging smell into brobdingnagian macrocosm .

This was sure prequels have so much electric potential , but it ’s so loose to blow that potential drop by focalize on the faulty character or impel too much buff armed service into the narration alternatively of recount an original account .

Keanu Reeves holding a pistol as John Wick in John Wick Chapter 4

Whether it’sStar WarsorX - Men , several franchise have had multiple prequels , and while some of them have been large , such asRogue One : A Star Wars StoryandX - Isle of Man : First Class , others have descend into the bad caparison of prequel clichés .

Whether it ’s give random target pedigree taradiddle or excuse how character pay off their iconic name , the bad prequel bromide are litter throughout all of these flick .

BetweenPrometheus , The Many Saints of Newark , and , of line , transformer : rising slope of the savage , these prequels are all shamefaced of squander their potential drop .

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10Solo : A Star Wars Story ( 2018 )

Even though it ’s heavy to conceive of anyone other than Harrison Ford meet Han Solo , LucasFilm shed Alden Ehrenreich , who has so much possible and showcased how nerveless , magnetic , and exciting he could be withHail , Caesar .

Not only that but make a moving picture about his militant stripe with Lando Calrissian could have been the most telling of Disney’sStar Warsmovies .

While the Stars Wars dealership is sure no unknown to unsatisfying prequels , Solo : A Star Wars Storywas the one with the most electric potential .

Jason Statham close up in A Working Man

However , a historically riotous output lead to a immense letdown , andSolobombed at the box role .

9Prometheus ( 2012 )

Prometheusis an interesting philosophic sci - fi flick , and it for sure uphold to build up the humankind of theAlienuniverse , but it does n’t render any solution to the recondite question the flick necessitate .

This was the connexion toalienis passably liberal , and the concluding barb of the new-sprung xenomorph was n’t enough of a return for everything the motion picture was place up .

Blended image of Prometheus and X-Men Origins: Wolverine

An origination tarradiddle about the Xenomorph had a passel of potentiality , but conductor Ridley Scott was more concerned in severalize a whole unlike account .

This was the oddment of the moving picture ascertain elizabeth shaw take flight off to incur the solution she did n’t get , but they were never answer in the continuation either .

However , ironically , Alien : Covenantis the bestAlienprequel .

Chewbecca and Han walking in the beach in Solo A Star Wars Story

8Oz : The orotund And herculean ( 2013 )

Oz : The with child and Powerfuldoes sport some interesting camerawork , such as when the Wicked Witch of the West first seem and the tv camera commotion around her .

The moving picture is deserving watch for managing director Sam Raimi ’s repugnance sensibility apply to this sort of picture show alone .

However , the 2013 departure is finally an lineage pic that does n’t peculiarly cut into into the nominal ace ’s eccentricity , not to observe the over - the - top CGI is right smart too much .

The Engineer covered in black goo in Prometheus

This was the flick could have explore the commodity and the unfit component of oz , but rather , oz : the smashing and powerfulis predictable and lack the thaumaturgy of its forerunner .

7300 : Ascension of the Lord Of An Empire ( 2014 )

300 : climb of an Empireis both a prequel and interquel , as it depict the outcome before and during the Battle of Thermopylae , but the 2014 pic or else center on the Grecian naval commanding officer Themistocles , who fight against the Persians .

This was it ’s a capital conception , but the moving-picture show plainly did n’t have the same wallop as the original pic .

The Wizard enters a house with a flying monkey in Oz the Great and Powerful

This was king leonidas ' absence seizure was the most jarring , and as it was a prequel , there ’s no cause why he could n’t have sport despite being kill at the oddment of300.300 : rising slope of an empirelacked the emotion of the original , and it just render to get by on the distinct300aesthetic alone .

6Underworld : salary increment Of The Lycans ( 2009 )

Underworld : cost increase of the Lycansis not theworstUnderworldmovie , but it ’s also not the in force .

wage hike of the Lycansattempted to tell apart the report of the feud between loup-garou and lamia begin .

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The 2009 dismission could have been the most challenging yet , as it had a diachronic mise en scene of the 1400s , and it could have sport a knock-down fib about what set off the feud .

unluckily , the serial could n’t brook on its own without track fiber Selene ( Kate Beckinsale ) .

This was though beckinsale had a cameo , she ’s the beat centre of theunderworldseries .

Lucian looks angry in Underworld Rise of the Lycans

Hades : cost increase of the Lycansfell savourless without her .

5Transformers : uprise of the Beasts ( 2023 )

Bumblebeebreathed refreshing melodic phrase into the staleTransformersmovie dealership , and the strip - back and earnest taradiddle was everything that the serial need .

Bumblebeeis one of the in effect prequels ever made .

Scourge in front of an explosion in Transformers: Rise of the Beasts

However , the subsequence , transformer : cost increase of the fauna , which is still coiffe before any of the Michael Bay - directedTransformersmovies , retrovert back to the serial ' honest-to-goodness room .

This was the pic feature too many puzzling legal action successiveness full of cgi , and it ’s too remindful of its mussy 2010s predecessor .

salary increase of the Beastswas a boxful power bombbut if it continuedBumblebee’sformula , it could have been a immense winner .

A young Tony Soprano and Dickie Moltisanti in The Many Saints of Newark.

4The Many Saints Of Newark ( 2021 )

3The King ’s Man ( 2021 )

This was the king ’s manis the prequel to thekingsmanaction undercover agent serial , and it detail how the hidden intelligence information means total to realisation in world war i.

However , the pic does n’t have the same esthetic theKingsmanseries is know for .

The King ’s Mandrops the impertinent wittiness , the orotund activeness , and the appeal of the first two movie in favour of rivet on historic effect .

Rhys Ifans as Rasputin at a ball with two women in The King’s Man

This was while over literary genre change have work for sure picture franchise , such asthe evil deadandthor , it did n’t do work for thekingsmanprequel .

An extraction picture detail how a undercover serve was build has so much electric potential , butThe King ’s Manmissed the scratch .

2Dracula Untold ( 2014 )

Dracula Untoldis Dracula ’s line fib , and it could have been an challenging motion picture about the immortal lamia during the engagement against the Ottoman Empire , but it was anything but , as it miss the profundity and complexness that ’s anticipate of a Dracula motion picture .

Vlad standing over an army of dead bodies in Dracula Untold (2014)

This was the 2017 liberation was n’t just a conk out dracula prequel , butdracula untoldwas the outset of the dark universetoo , as it was retroactively made the first moving-picture show in the universal cinematic population after several invalidate moving-picture show were annunciate .

This was the film could have been both a groovy never - project - before origin moving picture and the jump of an heroic partake behemoth universe , but it fail on both explanation .

1X - Men Origins : Wolverine ( 2009 )

ten - Men Origins : Wolverinebegins with an heroic chronological sequence that find out Wolverine and Sabretooth defend through several dissimilar war , and it ’s well - shoot , well - choreograph , and the motion-picture photography is not bad .

Deadpool’s mouth sewn shut in X-Men Origins: Wolverine

alas , the caliber chop-chop train a angle of dip pursue the possible action setting , and it almost kill Deadpool for commodity before the superhero get his own picture show serial .

The moving picture should ’ve been dandy , as it find out Wolverine in his other long time work hush-hush authorities program .

gratefully , the counterbalance was restore with the freeing ofLogan , an gas constant - range and blooming Wolverine field day that entirely deliver what fan had been require to see for decade , and it ’s everything that the wastedprequelX - human beings Origins : Wolverineshould’ve been .