Resident Evil · Rotten Tomatoes score

The bracket clusters around a Fresh score in the 80s, which is a real position on an unresolved film rather than settled fact. Zach Cregger directs off the goodwill from Weapons and Barbarian, the review embargo lifts September 16, and early festival reactions ran warm enough to push traders toward the low 80s before a single official count posted. The counterweight is the genre itself, since video-game adaptations and horror both tend to split critics harder than pre-release buzz implies, and a single wave of mixed notices can drop a Tomatometer ten points in an afternoon. The whole board reprices the moment reviews land, so the embargo lift is the event, not the premiere.