By New “Star Wars” series “The Acolyte” sits at 84% positive amongst critics on Rotten Tomatoes, and at a disastrously low 15% with audiences.
The story is similar on IMDb where 47,000 votes have resulted in a 3.6/10 score with 54.8% of those votes being a 1/10 score. The most recent episode in particular has scored just a 3.4/10 with 61% of scores being a 1/10.
While plenty of people legitimately don’t like the series, such skewed scores would suggest potential ‘review bombing’ may be going on, but is there any way to prove it?
Possibly according to SFFGazette as it has been revealed completely separate works with very similar titles are suddenly being inundated with plenty of bad reviews many years later.
The outlet indicates the 2008 Australian horror film “Acolytes”, a film which generally had poor reviews anyway, has suddenly seen its audience score fall even further due to an influx of 1-star reviews calling the Joel Edgerton and Michael Dorman-led feature an “affront to Star Wars”.
The critical aggregate site has cleaned up that film’s section, purging those reviews, but screen caps of the reviews remain up on X. A “Star Wars” fan film from 2022 titled “The Acolyte: A Star Wars Fan Film” has also reportedly seen a surge of 1-star reviews.
As CBM points out, Rotten Tomatoes has attempted to stop review-bombing in the past with films as users of the site needing to show a verified ticket purchase in order to share their verdict.
With a TV series, there’s no equivalent way to enforce such rules.
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