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Karl Urban Movies

Want to know the best Karl Urban movies?  How about the worst Karl Urban movies?  Curious about Karl Urban box office grosses or which Karl Urban movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Karl Urban movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences, and which got the worst reviews? Well, you have come to the right place…. because we have all of that information and much more.

Karl Urban (1972-) is a New Zealan actor. His IMDb page shows over 58 acting credits since 1991. This page will rank Karl Urban movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. To do well in the rankings, a movie needed to do well at the box office, be liked by both critics and audiences and earn some award recognition.

FYI – So how did we end up with a Karl Urban page, you ask? Pretty simple. It all started with The Sting. That classic 1973 film was featured on a podcast I was listening to—The Rewatchables—where they mentioned something I never knew: James Earl Jones’s father played the character Luther in the movie. That little fact blew me away.

Curious and excited, I called my son (son number two) to talk about The Sting. Somehow, our conversation drifted into a trivia question about one of the Thor movies. When I mentioned that I didn’t have a Karl Urban page, he was shocked and told me I needed to fix that immediately.

And just like that, a chat about The Sting turned into the creation of a Karl Urban page.

Karl Urban Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
Year Movie (Year) Rating S
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
AA Best Picture Win
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
AA Best Picture Nom
2009 Star Trek (2009)
2017 Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
2013 Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
2016 Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
2004 The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
2010 Red (2010)
2016 Pete's Dragon (2016)
2004 The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
2013 Riddick (2013)
2022 The Sea Beast (2022)
Netflix
Voice Only
2012 Dredd (2012)
2006 Out of the Blue (2006)
Limited Release
1998 Heaven (1998)
2002 Ghost Ship (2002)
2000 The Price of Milk (2000)
2007 Pathfinder: Legend of the Ghost Warrior (2007)
1998 Via Satellite (1998)
Film Festival Circuit Only
2013 Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013)
2017 Acts of Vengeance (2017)
Limited Release
2005 Doom (2005)
2011 Priest (2011)
2018 Bent (2018)
2018 Hangman (2018)
2000 The Truth About Demons (2000)
2010 And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Limited Release
2014 The Loft (2014)

Karl Urban Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

Sort Karl Urban movies by co-stars of his movies.
Sort Karl Urban movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
Sort Karl Urban movies by yearly domestic box office rank
Sort Karl Urban movies how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
Sort by how many Oscar® nominations each Karl Urban movie received and how many Oscar® wins each Karl Urban movie won.
Sort Karl Urban movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR Score puts box office, reviews, and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score
R Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links Actual B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Domestic (mil) Adj. B.O. Worldwide (mil) B.O. Rank by Year Review Oscar Nom / Win UMR Score S
1 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
AA Best Picture Win
Cate Blanchett &
Viggo Mortensen
371.00 769.1 2,307.40 2 91 11 / 11 100.0
2 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
AA Best Picture Nom
Elijah Wood &
Ian McKellen
334.00 719.8 1,977.30 2 92 06 / 02 99.7
3 Star Trek (2009) Chris Pine &
Zachary Quinto
257.70 429.6 642.80 7 89 04 / 01 99.0
4 Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Chris Hemsworth &
Tom Hiddleston
315.10 439.0 1,190.40 8 85 00 / 00 98.2
5 Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) Chris Pine &
Zachary Quinto
226.20 347.8 693.10 11 84 01 / 00 98.1
6 Star Trek: Beyond (2016) Chris Pine &
Zachary Quinto
158.80 229.5 496.30 16 80 01 / 00 97.4
7 The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Matt Damon &
Julia Stiles
176.20 354.8 580.70 9 80 00 / 00 97.1
8 Red (2010) Bruce Willis &
Morgan Freeman
90.40 143.2 315.30 38 70 00 / 00 88.1
9 Pete's Dragon (2016) Bryce Dallas Howard &
Robert Redford
76.20 110.2 207.70 41 75 00 / 00 86.5
10 The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Vin Diesel &
Judi Dench
57.80 116.3 233.00 55 52 00 / 00 75.3
11 Riddick (2013) Vin Diesel 42.00 64.6 151.20 75 62 00 / 00 70.0
12 The Sea Beast (2022)
Netflix
Voice Only
Dan Stevens 0.10 0.1 0.10 295 80 01 / 00 67.9
13 Dredd (2012) Olivia Thirlby 13.40 21.1 55.90 126 74 00 / 00 66.5
14 Out of the Blue (2006)
Limited Release
Matthew Sunderland 0.00 0.1 0.10 408 65 00 / 00 40.2
15 Heaven (1998) Martin Donovan &
Daniel Edwards
0.00 0.1 0.10 327 64 00 / 00 38.5
16 Ghost Ship (2002) Julianna Margulies &
Gabriel Byrne
30.10 64.9 147.30 90 43 00 / 00 36.9
17 The Price of Milk (2000) Danielle Cormack 0.10 0.2 0.20 253 62 00 / 00 34.2
18 Pathfinder: Legend of the Ghost Warrior (2007) Clancy Brown 10.20 17.5 52.90 139 53 00 / 00 26.6
19 Via Satellite (1998)
Film Festival Circuit Only
Jack Chan 0.00 0.1 0.10 285 57 00 / 00 23.5
21 Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013) Charlie Rowe &
Karl Urban
36.10 55.5 194.60 81 38 00 / 00 21.8
20 Acts of Vengeance (2017)
Limited Release
Antonio Banderas 0.00 0.1 0.50 489 55 00 / 00 21.1
22 Doom (2005) Karl Urban &
Rosamund Pike
28.20 55.1 109.40 98 36 00 / 00 21.0
23 Priest (2011) Paul Bettany &
Christopher Plummer
29.10 45.9 123.40 102 40 00 / 00 20.2
24 Bent (2018) Andy Garcia 0.10 0.1 0.20 361 52 00 / 00 15.2
25 Hangman (2018) Al Pacino 0.10 0.1 0.10 441 48 00 / 00 10.6
26 The Truth About Demons (2000) Katie Wolfe &
Horror Movies
0.00 0.1 0.10 335 47 00 / 00 9.3
27 And Soon the Darkness (2010)
Limited Release
Amber Heard 0.00 0.1 0.10 346 45 00 / 00 8.0
28 The Loft (2014) Karl Urban &
James Marsden
6.00 9.2 15.40 146 33 00 / 00 2.3

Karl Urban Adjusted World Wide Box Office Grosses
Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) S
Movie (Year) UMR Co-Star Links World-Wide Box Office Adjusted (mil) S
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
AA Best Picture Win
Cate Blanchett &
Viggo Mortensen
2,307.40
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
AA Best Picture Nom
Elijah Wood &
Ian McKellen
1,977.30
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Chris Hemsworth &
Tom Hiddleston
1,190.40
Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013) Chris Pine &
Zachary Quinto
693.10
Star Trek (2009) Chris Pine &
Zachary Quinto
642.80
The Bourne Supremacy (2004) Matt Damon &
Julia Stiles
580.70
Star Trek: Beyond (2016) Chris Pine &
Zachary Quinto
496.30
Red (2010) Bruce Willis &
Morgan Freeman
315.30
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Vin Diesel &
Judi Dench
233.00
Pete's Dragon (2016) Bryce Dallas Howard &
Robert Redford
207.70
Walking with Dinosaurs 3D (2013) Charlie Rowe &
Karl Urban
194.60
Riddick (2013) Vin Diesel 151.20
Ghost Ship (2002) Julianna Margulies &
Gabriel Byrne
147.30
Priest (2011) Paul Bettany &
Christopher Plummer
123.40
Doom (2005) Karl Urban &
Rosamund Pike
109.40
Dredd (2012) Olivia Thirlby 55.90
Pathfinder: Legend of the Ghost Warrior (2007) Clancy Brown 52.90
The Loft (2014) Karl Urban &
James Marsden
15.40
Acts of Vengeance (2017)
Limited Release
Antonio Banderas 0.50
Bent (2018) Andy Garcia 0.20

Check out Karl Urban’s career compared to current and classic actors.  Most 100 Million Dollar Movies of All-Time

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1 thought on “Karl Urban Movies”

  1. George says:
    October 13, 2025 at 1:19 pm

    Good actor, like him as the new bones in star trek, seen most of his movies.

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