Resident Evil Rotten Tomatoes Score: Zach Cregger Earns His Best-Ever Score, Setting A New Record For The Video Game Franchise!

Resident Evil has launched with a strong critical score, marking Zach Cregger’s best-ever Rotten Tomatoes rating. The film also generated positive buzz when its opening thirty minutes were previewed, and it is tracking toward a successful box office debut that sets a new franchise record. Read on to see how it compares to Cregger’s past work and the rest of the film series.

Resident Evil debuts with a solid score from the critics

The movie premiered to a massive 96% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes. Audience reception is similarly enthusiastic at over 90%, with viewers awarding the video game adaptation a 91% rating on the site’s Popcornmeter. With its 96% critics’ score, it is reportedly the highest-rated video game movie of all time, surpassing the previous record-holder Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and its 86% critics’ rating.

How does it stack up against the previous Resident Evil movies?

According to the review aggregator, no prior installment in this video game adaptation franchise managed to crack even a 40% critics’ score, making this the highest-rated entry in the entire series.

At the time of writing, the film holds a solid critics’ score of 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. Below is how critics have rated the other films in the franchise on the review aggregator:

1. Resident Evil (2026) — 96%
2. Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016) — 39%
3. Resident Evil (2002) — 36%
4. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City (2021) — 30%
5. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) — 24%
6. Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) — 24%
7. Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) — 21%
8. Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) — 18%

How does it stack up against Zach Cregger’s other films?

Released in 2025, Weapons previously held the highest critic rating among Zach Cregger’s directorial projects with 93%. Resident Evil has now overtaken that mark with its 96% score.

1. Miss March – 5%
2. Barbarian – 92%
3. Weapons – 93%
4. Resident Evil – 96%

More about the movie

The survival horror plot centers on Brian, a medical courier forced to battle hordes of infected monsters during a viral outbreak in Raccoon City while trying to complete a delivery. The movie opened on September 18, and you can check out our review here.

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