The films of James Cameron are always head-turners. In fact, he is the creator of two of the biggest-selling films of all time, as well as some of the most famous and well-loved films ever made. He doesn’t limit himself to one genre or one style, and the persistence of his output has never dropped; in short, he is one of the best film directors of all time.

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We’ve used IMDb to rank the five best films he has ever made, and compare them to the five worst. He has only made ten films, so this list encompasses his entire directorial history.

BEST: Avatar (7.8)

Neytiri in James Cameron's Avatar

James Cameron’s Avatar was filmed on a massive budget and pushed forward by the promise of stunning 3D visuals and an expansive world, and Avatar remains one of the biggest films at the box office of all time.

No matter how much of a success the film was, it’s a serious contender for the most over-hyped and over-rated film ever made. Why on earth Cameron feels it necessary to provide the world with four sequels is anybody’s guess.

WORST: The Abyss (7.6)

The Abyss James Cameron

Starting off a list of James Cameron’s five worst films with the excellent The Abyss seems like a crime, but its IMDb average of 7.6 speaks for itself.

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It is yet another way for Cameron to show his love of the deep sea, and managed to take home the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects.

BEST: Titanic (7.8)

James Cameron Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Titanic

Landing on the same IMDb average as Avatar is Titanic, which also happens to have attained a very similar level of exceptional box office success. There must be something pretty special about James Cameron films to convince his audience to flock to cinemas.

While the grand story of the Titanic is an interesting one and Cameron’s dramatization of events is well done, it still remains a mystery why so many people went out in force to see it.

WORST: True Lies (7.2)

James Cameron with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in True Lies

While Cameron clearly has a natural knack for the fantastical, proven by the content of his other films, he fails to unite the mostly realistic characters of this film with the sometimes absurd plot-points of True Lies.

Considering audiences were familiar with the excellent collaborations between Schwarzenegger and Cameron by this point, many of them were very disappointed with what this film provided. Having said that, there are occasional moments of comedic and action brilliance dotted throughout.

BEST: The Terminator (8.0)

Set partially in the distant future (though not so distant anymore), the original Terminator film placed Arnold Schwarzenegger into his defining role: that of a cyborg sent back in time to kill Sarah Connor.

The film was a box office hit which spawned a huge, enduring selection of sequels and spin-offs, each of varying quality.

WORST: Ghosts Of The Abyss (6.8)

The Sunken Titanic in Ghosts of the Abyss

Stepping away from fictional feature films for a moment, the Ghosts Of The Abyss documentary combines two of James Cameron’s previous films: Titanic itself (the documentary is an exploration of the wreckage of the famous ship) and Abyss (the documentary shares a title with his 1989 sci-fi film, as well as a focus on sunken vessels).

It’s a visual masterpiece that attained the most detailed views of the ship ever caught on camera and combined them with impressive CGI recreations of what it would look like, but it doesn’t compare to his fictional works.

BEST: Aliens (8.3)

Aliens-Xenomorph

The sequel to Ridley Scott’s incredible horror masterpiece Alien really took things to the next level, delivering a piece of cinema that combined tension with a Terminator-esque desire for action.

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Sigourney Weaver’s return to the character of Ellen Ripley was well-loved, and this proved to be the final entry into the Alien franchise that would be considered a great film.

WORST: Aliens Of The Deep (6.4)

Another of James Cameron’s ventures into documentary making, directed alongside Steven Quale, shares a lot of structural and visual similarities to the documentary he released just two years earlier.

While it gave audiences some of the great IMAX 3D visuals Cameron loves as well as interesting information about the strange lifeforms deep in the ocean, it is a disappointing departure from the escapism his other films provide.

BEST: Terminator 2: Judgement Day (8.5)

It’s very rare that a sequel is as good as the original film, and in the case of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, we are shown the even more unlikely scenario of a sequel which is even better.

Pretty much everything about the film was praised, from its acting to its action. At the time of its release, this was the most expensive film of all time, but it continued to provide box office success, quintupling what was spent.

WORST: Piranha II: The Spawning (3.7)

Looking at the title of this film, no one would never be able to connect the big-budget masterpieces of James Cameron’s latter career to this absurd attempt at horror.

As this was his first feature film, he may deserve a bit of a break, but it’s still impressively bad. It has been claimed that Ovidio G. Assonitis was very controlling during filming and left Cameron with very limited creative control.

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