New R-Rated Survival Sci-Fi Officially Crowned Highest-Rated Video Game Adaptation Ever
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' adaptation has the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating for a movie based on a game.
Zach Cregger's 'Resident Evil' adaptation has the highest Rotten Tomatoes rating for a movie based on a game.
The short version
- After these first three entries, there are only six video game movies on the list with positive Tomatometer scores: The Angry Birds Movie 2 , Sonic the Hedgehog 2 , Pokémon Detective Pikachu , Gran Turismo , Sonic the Hedgehog , and Mortal Kombat II .
- This short list shows just how bad video game movies tend to be.
- For clarity, the Tomatometer represents the percentage of critics who gave a movie a favorable review.
What happened
This Rotten Tomatoes list excludes films that don’t have at least 20 reviews from theatrical releases. That said, the Rotten Tomatoes list consists of just a handful of movies.
Why it matters
For instance, Exit 8 , an adaptation of the game of the same name, has a 91% Rotten Tomatoes score with 176 reviews.
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