The Rotten Tomatoes audience score for the new Netflix movie starring Chris Pratt has opened a wide gulf between viewers and critics. Millie Bobby Brown is no stranger to appealing to audiences on Netflix, as she is one of the stars of the popular 1980s-set sci-fi fantasy series Stranger Things. In addition to Stranger Things season 4 being the second most-watched English-language movie of all time on the platform, the overall series has an average Rotten Tomatoes audience score of 90%, peaking with the 96% earned by season 1.

Chris Pratt movies have a similar track record with Rotten Tomatoes audiences, though he does not have the same longstanding relationship with Netflix as Brown, who has also starred in other titles produced for the streamer, including Enola Holmes and Damsel. Some of the most popular Pratt titles include The Super Mario Bros. Movie (which is Verified Hot on Rotten Tomatoes with a 95% audience score), Pixar's Onward (95%, also Verified Hot), Guardians of the Galaxy (92%), The LEGO Movie (87%), and Jurassic World (78%).

The Electric State's Audience Score Is An Improvement

The Movie Was Critically Reviled

The Electric State has split audiences and critics. The new Netflix blockbuster is set in an alternate version of the 1990s where there is a war between robots and humans, during which teenager Michelle (Millie Bobby Brown) is searching for her missing brother with the help of various friendly robots and the former staff sergeant John D. Keats (Chris Pratt). The movie earned a dismal 16% score on Rotten Tomatoes because critics' The Electric State reviews widely panned the project, including the 4 out of 10 review from ScreenRant's own Alex Harrison. Read an excerpt from his writeup below:

In execution, though, The Electric State's sci-fi is muddled and empty, smashed together with references to our '90s for seemingly no reason other than to press a certain demographic's nostalgia button. Does it make much sense to have a world with sentient AI and neural projection where computers still look like boxy PCs and AOL still announces that "you've got mail"? And the robots' consumer culture references, classically fertile ground, serve no larger purpose I can find. The closest I get is the film suggesting it's better when there's a variety of branding on display, instead of just one company's stuff.

Rotten Tomatoes has now aggregated an official audience score for The Electric State. Although this could change as more reviews are added, at the time of writing, it has earned a Fresh audience score of 76% from more than 500 ratings with an average score of 3.8 out of 5. This is significantly higher than its Tomatometer score. In fact, it exceeds it by a full 60%, which is a total that by itself hits the threshold that would determine a movie to be Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

What This Means For The Electric State

It's Still A Risky Project For Netflix

reviews have specifically complimented the movie’s sense of fun and its acting, though many have also acknowledged that the plot is generic, which may be a reason the score isn’t even higher. Ultimately, this audience score goes further toward justifying the huge $320 million budget of The Electric State, which not only makes it Netflix's most expensive movie but one of the most expensive productions of all time. However, it remains to be seen if this response translates to the kind of viewership the movie needs to garner in order to be worth that enormous financial risk.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes