Overview
- Roth told Variety this week that studio orders to cut mature content for a PG‑13 rating left the film without a clear identity and produced what he called “something that belonged to nobody.”
- The movie grossed roughly $33 million worldwide and holds about a 10% Rotten Tomatoes critic score, marking it a clear commercial and critical failure.
- Reported production costs of about $115–120 million plus roughly $30 million in marketing mean the $33 million return represented a large financial loss for the studio.
- Early reviews after the embargo were almost uniformly negative, with an initial 0% critic score from the first 25 reviews and many critics describing the film as over‑sanitised and bland compared with the games.
- As a result of the experience Roth says he will release his next film independently and unrated, a move that he and observers frame as a response to growing studio risk aversion for big‑budget adaptations.