The Resident Evil movie from Weapons and Barbarian director Zach Cregger releases in theaters on September 18. Reviews from critics went live today, and the movie is earning high scores. GameSpot’s Resident Evil review scored it an 8 and said it successfully captures the breathless terror of the games.

In fact, it’s now the highest-rated video game movie ever. It boasts a mightily impressive 96% on Rotten Tomatoes from 71 reviews and an equally impressive 80 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic. According to Metacritic, Resident Evil is the highest-rated video game movie ever, well ahead of another 2026 movie, Exit 8, which has a 71 Metascore.

Source: Gamespot

I am not surprised. Creggers record is great

Cool! Reviews are at least a good indication. I do not like every highly rated movie, but I pretty much does not like ANY low rated one. So at least this seem to have potential.

I recently bought the UHD set of the previous Resident Evil movies, I have yet to see any of them.

Nice. Going to see it today:)

Went to see it and I must admit, I was disappointed. Was hoping it would be great, but the story felt kinda pointless and its not really much of a horror movie. Its a horror comedy. Which is fine, but the comedy became a bit much. The main character is just silly so the tension in the scarier scenes became more silly than scary. I still enjoyed some of it and will watch it again sometime, but overall a slightly above mediocre adaptation imo. I also think they were going for some kind of record for the most amount of swearing in a movie. Did overhear several people talking about it as I was leaving and they all seemed to like it, so I might be in the minority on this one.

96%? That's not just a great rating for a gaming movie, it's an incredible high rating for a movie in general.

I didn't like the trailer at all