Empire's Scores

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For 6,820 reviews, this publication has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 3% same as the average critic
  • 43% lower than the average critic
On average, this publication grades 0.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)
Average Movie review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 Oppenheimer
Lowest review score: 20 Superman IV: The Quest for Peace
Score distribution:
6820 movie reviews
    • 19 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Really, really bad. It's not good on any level. Not a good horror, not a good revenge flick, it's poorly constructed and has absolutely nothing to say or offer. Utter shit.
  1. Very, very low-brow.
  2. This is probably worse than you’d expect, even from a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel to a sequel.
  3. Despite lashings of bright red gore and the obvious enthusiasm of its gibbering hordes, Redcon-1 is a hard slog. Nearly two hours of grunts vs zombies feels punitive.
  4. Just no.
  5. Pretty terrible sequel in every respect.
  6. The kind of film the tabloids will call to ban. Don't take that as a reason to see it.
  7. Blood Wars is tragically bereft of the pulp verve this nonsense needs to be tolerable.
  8. An absolute shambles of a fantasy folly. Overlong, undercooked, and clogged with enough clichés that even its teen target audience will feel disrespected.
  9. While it's tempting to sum up in thumbs down emoji, when they go low, we go high. So let's just say, abandon all hope, ye who enter here.
  10. Another reason to avoid films endorsed by the US military, this is sub-propaganda tosh that inadvertently plays like Hot Shots: Part Trois.
  11. A risible attempt to modernise classic science-fiction by adding WhatsApp and political chicanery. This thin, frenetic, soulless adaptation is misguided moviemaking cubed.
  12. Cheap and cheerless, Norm’s appeal melts faster than the polar ice. With characters so completely devoid of charm or entertainment value, even David Attenborough would call for a cull of this lot.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    All told, a fairly shameful enterprise, displaying a breathtaking paucity of imagination.
  13. Like, so lame.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    A mercenary display of product placement and a bad advertisment for filmmaking.
    • 20 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Dreadful.
  14. Energetically humourless, with travelogue and circus footage inserted between the dog-piss and big boob jokes.
    • 31 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Re-prehensible, re-heated, and certainly not re-commended.
    • 13 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Unfortunately this isn't even half as fun as the shortest bumper-car ride, with the cast lost in a sea of unfunny situations and badly executed antique jokes on loan from The Munsters all obviously puzzled about why they are actually there.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Even John C McGinley (Dr. Cox from Scrubs) can't save this lamest of comedies.
  15. Pallid doesn't do it. This is offensively bad in every department and should be left to rot in a vault somewhere.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    Gibson's future-world may be a cold one, but it should never be seen as a dull one; this is a missed opporunity.
  16. Jaws but bigger, more mammal, and just plain bad.
    • 18 Metascore
    • 20 Critic Score
    As it stands, it’s one of the worst films you won’t see in 2015.
  17. This is poorly shot, edited and scored, while any acting talent feels wasted.
  18. Utter, unforgivable bilge.
  19. A big old pile of Smurf.
  20. Citizens On Patrol might well have been subtitled When The Rot Set In.
  21. Tonally, Baywatch veers all over the place like a drunk on a speedboat, making for one of the most lacklustre comedies of the year so far.

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