Predicting The Rotten Tomatoes Scores For 2016's Biggest Remaining Movies
Who needs Batman v Superman?
2016 may be more than half-over, but it's safe to say that a lot of the year's biggest (and hopefully best) movies are still to come.
With a fleet of summer blockbusters still due to be released ahead of the impending Oscar season, there's a lot to be excited about, but of course, as we all know, big movies often crumple under the weight of expectation.
The recent release of the Ghostbusters reboot shows just how much stock people put in Rotten Tomatoes scores, and it goes without saying that the critical reception to each of these coming movies will no doubt have a bearing on its audience response and eventual box office success (or lack thereof).
Everyone wants to be optimistic about these films, and yet at the same time, not all of them are going to live up to expectations. It's time to consider what'll hit and what won't.
Here are our predicted Rotten Tomatoes scores for 2016's biggest movies...
20. Inferno (19%)
Critical Consensus: "Tom Hanks and Felicity Jones are as reliably entertaining as ever, but Inferno suffers from sluggish pacing and implausible plotting."
The two Robert Langdon movies released to date haven't exactly been critical darlings (2006's The Da Vinci Code scored 25% and 2009's Angels and Demons 37%), and it's going to be a struggle to make an improved threequel almost a decade later.
Expect praise for the cast and possibly the action sequences, but the story will be dismissed as pure hokey nonsense just as it was in the previous movies. In short, critics will struggle to find reason for this movie happening beyond lining the pockets of Columbia's executives.