Top 10 Will Smith Movies Ever Till 2023

Will Smith is one of the international superstars who are known worldwide for his performances and movies. So today we have brought you a list of his top hits movies to enjoy this weekend.

1. Hitch (2005)

Romantic comedies have a bad reputation, but when they are produced with enough tact and skill, the results can be very compelling. A good example is the 2005 film Hitch, which starred Will Smith as a renowned "date doctor" who arranges a date for a slacker (Kevin James) and his celebrity crush (Amber Valletta) while courting a gossip columnist (Eva Mendes) whose most recent assignment places her on a collision course with Hitch. It's all well-known material, but critics like Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press, who stated, "Smith and Mendes are terrific together," were okay with that. He raises her performance to a point where you'd think she'd played as many stellar roles as Smith.

2. The Pursuit Of Happyness (2006)

The Pursuit of Happyness, also known as the movie that demonstrated that Will Smith's cinematic dynasty would eventually include his children, was an inspirational drama that starred Will Smith and his son Jaden, who was just eight years old at the time the film was released. Chris Gardner's real-life journey from being a homeless single parent to a stockbroker served as its inspiration (and stole the picture anyway). Smith gave a particularly compelling performance as a desperate father on the verge of losing everything, as Tom Meek for the Boston Phoenix put it: "Smith turns in a career-capping performance, and director Gabriele Muccino ingeniously turns the material inward, cautioning us all to be grateful for what we have."

3. Hitch (2005)

Romantic comedies have a bad reputation, but the results can be very compelling when they are produced with enough tact and skill. A good example is the 2005 film Hitch, which starred Will Smith as a renowned "date doctor" who arranges a date for a slacker (Kevin James) and his celebrity crush (Amber Valletta) while courting a gossip columnist (Eva Mendes) whose most recent assignment places her on a collision course with Hitch. It's all well-known material, but critics like Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press, who stated, "Smith and Mendes are terrific together," were okay with that. He raises her performance to such a level that you'd think she had as many positive traits as Smith.

4. Men in Black

After Bad Boys, the mid- to late 1990s pretty much belonged to Will Smith, so Men in Black wasn't just your average action/comedy/sci-fi summer blockbuster, it was an Event Movie with almost $590 million in ticket sales (and a pair of sequels waiting to happen). Tommy Lee Jones went from "distinguished character actor" to "leading man" status as a result of the success of The Fugitive. Although it won an Oscar for Best Makeup, it didn't receive any other honours for its depth of storytelling, but it did delight audiences with its unabashed popcorn thrills, fueled by Smith and Jones' easy chemistry. Slate's David Edelstein called it "The smartest, funniest, and best-looking sci-fi comedy since the movies learned to morph."

5. Six Degrees of Separation (1993)

Six Degrees of Separation, an adaptation of the John Guare play about a slick-talking young man named Paul (William Smith) who shows up on the doorstep of a wealthy New York couple (Donald Sutherland and Stockard Channing) and convinces them he's not only friends with their college-age kids, but also that he's the son of Sidney Poitier, was inspired by the fascinating story of real-life con artist David Hampton. Before the night is over, he is sound asleep in their guest room, and the extraordinary truth of Paul's story is revealed just before the credits start to roll.

6. Where The day Takes You (1992)

Smith's early years as an actor and rapper were largely spent in comedic roles; as a result, when he decided to enter the film industry, he went with the decidedly unfunny part of a handicapped, homeless Los Angeles youth in the ensemble drama Where the Day Takes You. Dermot Mulroney, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Kyle MacLachlan, among others, provided Smith with a group of seasoned actors around whom he could test the waters of drama without having to carry an entire film by himself. This strategy paid off for critics like Roger Ebert, who wrote, "Maybe the director, Marc Rocco, is good with actors. Or perhaps these actors have never worked with such compelling material before.

7. I am Legend (2007)

Will Smith played Robert Neville, the virologist who just so happens to be one of the least healthy people left after a government-engineered vaccine goes wrong and turns the human race into vampire-like creatures. Richard Matheson's classic novel languished in development hell for more than a decade and passed through the hands of a list of stars that included Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

8. Ali (2001)

Smith put in a year of training to get ready for the lead role in Michael Mann's Muhammad Ali biopic, training both inside and outside the ring with live sparring, Islamic studies, and dialect coaching among other things. All that preparation paid off for Smith, who received a Best Actor Oscar nomination as well as raving reviews from critics like Jay Carr of the Boston Globe, who wrote, "Smith makes contact with enough of Ali's swagger, sweetness, wit, and pride to convince us that justice is being done to the boxing champion." Ali ultimately delivered a somewhat disappointing punch at the box office, where its $87 million gross failed to earn back its budget.

9. Independence Day (1996)

Smith began a run of July 4 blockbusters with Independence Day, Roland Emmerich's 1996 ensemble sci-fi thriller about the global anarchy unleashed when an armada of horribly hostile aliens stops by Earth for a visit, after establishing himself as an action star with Bad Boys. Independence Day, the biggest hit of the year with a worldwide gross of over $815 million, owed a lot of its success to Will Smith's wisecracking heroics. In the words of Empire's Angie Errigo, Independence Day was "a throwback to traditional entertainment with an old-fashioned, gung-ho good time thrilled up by '90s-style state-of-the-art technology."

10. I, Robot (2004)

It took a while for Isaac Asimov's classic short story collection to make it to the big screen, and when it did in 2004, the finished product only barely resembled its literary namesake. I, Robot may have disappointed purists, but it was another in a string of blockbuster summer movies for Smith. And even though its transformation into a big-budget action thriller may have sacrificed thought-provoking subtext along the way, Nev Pierce of the BBC claimed that it was still sufficient, saying, "Whether there's anything substantial under the sheen and CGI of Alex Proyas' glistening future vision is debatable, but this enjoyable, engrossing picture is least intelligently artificial.