CulterixZach Cregger’s “Resident Evil” sets an all-time Rotten Tomatoes record for a video-game movie
The adaptation is scoring higher than any previous video-game film on the review aggregator.
Zach Cregger's “Resident Evil” adaptation is scoring higher on Rotten Tomatoes than any previous video-game movie has managed on the aggregator, setting an all-time high for the genre.
Video-game adaptations have historically struggled with critics far more than with audiences, so a record like this genuinely breaks a long-running pattern rather than just being a solid individual score — it's evidence that a filmmaker can treat the source material with the same craft as any other genre picture and have critics respond accordingly.
Why it matters. Video-game movies have a rough critical history — this breaks the pattern.