By Jesse Schedeen
Moviegoers have a very love/hate relationship with video game adaptations, while critics just plain hate them. That’s obvious just by comparing CinemaScores (a rating based on audience surveys taken opening night) to the critical percentages on Rotten Tomatoes. Sometimes these numbers align, but usually there’s a stark difference between how audiences and critics feel about these films.
The numbers are now in, and they show that audiences and critics were still fairly divided on Tomb Raider. The film currently sits at 49% on Rotten tomatoes, despite earning a respectable “B” CinemaScore rating.
Check out our slideshow breaking down the critical and CinemaScore reactions to past video game movies and what impact those numbers have had on box office performance.
For more on CinemaScores, find out how the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the current DC movies and the modern Star Wars movies have fared with audiences, and how audiences have responded to Jennifer Lawrence’s movies. And check out these 13 movies that scored a dreaded “F” CinemaScore!
And for more on Tomb Raider, check out our negative review, find out why star Alicia Vikander wants her version of Lara Croft to be ‘more relatable’ than Angelina Jolie’s, and then learn about the ways in which the recent Tomb Raider games have influenced the movie.
Jesse is a mild-mannered writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intellectual thicket by following @jschedeen on Twitter, or Kicksplode on MyIGN.
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