OK I think there's a bit of clarification needed here.
The Rotten tomatoes score is actually 39% (not 23%, that score is for the RT top critics only which does not include the sorts of critics that tend to like these sorts of movies). Still not a good score in absolute terms but one of the best for VG adaptations. My view is that if a VG adaptation gets >30% then there's a good chance gamers will think the movie is OK.
Boxoffice Mojo has estimated just above $30 million grossed for opening weekend. This is normally pretty accurate to within a million or so.
The movie isn't going to have good legs. It'll top out at $60 million max in North America, which is not a good performance for a big budget movie with a production budget of $200 million and a promotion budget of who knows what. While a lot of critics may be pretentious dicks when it comes to criticising pulp culture movies, the movies that are wildly successful at the box office yet get poor reviews are the exception to the rule (Transformers being an excellent example), and when they open with a sub $50 million weekend there's no coming back to become a surprise hit.
Thgis movie will have the glitz that other VG movies don't but its underbelly will still be part of the standard VG adaptation fare: poor translation of game story to movie screenplay.
But personallly I'm glad that PoP's rotten tomatoes score has come in under Robin Hood's. I think Robin Hood has been seriously underappreciated by the critics.
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