Netflix’s Resident Evil adaptation gets horrible audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, among the lowest for any Netflix video game adaptation.
As seen by Forbes, Resident Evil has a 22% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to its 53% critical score. It is worth noting that anyone can vote as part of the audience score, and no verification to actually watch the show is required.
Resident Evil – Official Trailer | Netflix
Resident Evil – Official Trailer | Netflix
In comparison, the animated Castlevania series that started in 2017 has an 88% audience score and a 94% critical score. See the article : Here are the most watched Amazon Prime video series in the last 2 years: how they stack up against Netfli. The Witcher, which is more closely associated with the romance series but takes elements from the CD project players has a 75% audience score and an 81% critical score.
User ratings for Resident Evil have been incredibly negative. User Jhonatan V said: “Serial disaster, has nothing to do with Resident Evil”.
Another 2-star rating from user Ken C wrote, “it’s relaxing enough if you don’t pay attention. Interesting spin in the RE storyline.
A 3-star rating, by self-described “Resident Evil diehard apologist and enjoyer” Ponpo C calls it, “one of the weirdest pieces of media [I’ve] ever seen”.
“It’s like Dragonball Evolution in the sense that it’s so separated from the source material that if you removed some elements, you would not even know it was an adaptation.”
This reaction to the show could possibly be predicted based on the reaction to the first trailer. At the time of writing, the show’s trailer received 53,000 likes and 125,000 dislikes.