The streak reaches 18!
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Bill Klem umpired 18 World Series, Chicago Cubs reliever George Washington (Zip) Zabel once pitched 18 innings in relief (eventually winning the game) and now 20th Century Fox has made 18 movies that couldn’t even score a mediocre 50 rating on Rotten Tomatoes. To recap:
Everyone knows Fox makes bad movies, but just how bad? We’ve been keeping a running tab on the lousy reviews for each of their new movies. With the exception of ‘Horton Hears a Who’ last spring, Fox has released 18 movies since last summer’s ‘Simpson’s Movie,’ none of which have earned a 50 rating on the Web’s leading aggregator of movie reviews.
This Friday’s new film, ‘The X-Files: I Want to Believe,’ kept the streak alive, scoring a measly 31 on Rotten Tomatoes. Our reviewer wasn’t all that impressed, a reaction shared by most critics. The Charlotte Observer’s Lawrence Toppman, hardly a fancy-pants big city snob, put it best: ‘They’ve given us a mash-up of a procedural police thriller, a B-grade mad scientist movie of the 1950s and some mumbo-jumbo about God’s influence that hasn’t a real shock or surprise throughout.’
What’s the potential No. 19 film in the streak? ‘Mirrors,’ a thriller with Kiefer Sutherland and Amy Smart, that’s due out Aug. 15. Let’s just say, considering Sutherland’s big-screen track record, that we’ve got our fingers double-crossed.
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox/ Diyah Pera