‘Five Nights At Freddy’s 2’ Has The Largest Rotten Tomatoes Critic-Audience Score Divide Ever

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2

Five Nights At Freddy’s 2

It remains to be seen how Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 will perform at the weekend box office, but what we do know is what critics think, and what fans think. Even if the film is being declared as objectively terrible by many, audiences who care enough to show up do not agree in the least. So much so that this divide has set a Rotten Tomatoes record.

We are currently looking at the biggest score divide between critics and audiences in Rotten Tomatoes history. Here’s the split of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 and video game adaptations even remotely close to it, as these often have heavy splits.

• Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 – 13% critic, 88% audience – 75% split
• Five Nights at Freddy’s – 33% critic, 86% audience – 53% split
• Uncharted – 41% critic, 90% audience – 48% split
• Warcraft – 29% critic, 76% audience – 47% split
• A Minecraft Movie – 47% critic, 85% audience – 38% split
• Borderlands 10% critic, 48% audience – 38% split

The rest are closer, with few above a 35% split from what I can find, so you can see how the 75% difference for Rotten Tomatoes critic and audience scores is wild, even for a “it’s made for the fans” type video game movie, which many of the above are. There are many video game movies that have scored worse than its 13%, believe it or not, but all of those are also rated Rotten by audiences as sometimes, bad is just bad (it begins there with Borderlands at the bottom, even with a decent split).

I’ve just never seen anything like this before. This actually appears to be an all-time record period, not just for video game movies. You can look at a controversial movie like The Last Jedi, which has a 50% split, or cult classic comedy Super Troopers with a 53% split. But I cannot find any movie even within striking distance of this 75% difference. The single highest one I can find is a 65% split for The Boondock Saints, the cult classic 1999 action film, 26% critic to 91% audience.

One thing that’s clear is that Five Nights at Freddy’s fans appear to be more way tolerant than most, so long as they believe something is fun and accurate to the game series they like. It may not land for…literally anyone else, but the first film did enormous box office numbers, multiplying its budget many times over, and the sequel is likely to do the same. Still, this is something to behold. We are witnessing history.

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