{"id":599848,"date":"2026-04-11T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599848\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T10:27:10","slug":"exit-8-is-now-the-highest-rated-video-game-film-adaptation-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/599848\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit 8 Is Now The Highest Rated Video Game Film Adaptation Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-intro-line\">Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost to you.<\/p>\n<p>Despite releasing in Japanese theaters last year, Exit 8 just began its theatrical run in North America on April 10. With its new run comes a new wave of critical reviews, which has catapulted it into rather rarified air on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>The film, at the time of posting, is sitting at 95% based on 91 critical reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Although that\u2019s an incredible rating by any metric, it places it far out in front in terms of video game film adaptations, with it eclipsing the previous bests, Sonic the Hedgehog 3 and Werewolves Within, which share an 86% rating.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Just like the game of the same name, which was released in 2023, the film follows a man trapped in an endless, sterile train station corridor that loops endlessly. If he\u2019s unable to identify the anomalies, he\u2019s sent back to square one.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m personally fascinated to see how they adapt a fifteen-minute game into a feature-length film, but they did it for Battleship, I guess.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Wilkins, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reelreviews.com\/intheaters\/exit-8-movie-review\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reel Reviews,<\/a> scored the film 3 out of 5, stating: \u201cTaps into that universal feeling of being stuck on autopilot, of moving forward without ever really progressing. It is horror rooted not in monsters, but in the quiet terror of \u2018sameness\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chuck Bowen, of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.styleweekly.com\/master-of-puppets-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Style Weekly<\/a>, said: \u201cDirector Genki Kawamura has made a pocket-sized Kubrick movie here, utilizing symmetry as a signifier of a crisis of reality met with indifference by gods who probably don\u2019t exist anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Exit 8 is releasing in select Australian cinemas on April 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Press Start may receive a commission when you buy from links on our site at no extra cost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,292477,10498,292478,344,4345,292479],"class_list":{"0":"post-599848","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-exit-8","12":"tag-film-adaptation","13":"tag-highest-rated","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-rotten-tomatoes","16":"tag-video-game-film"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}