If there's one thing Hideo Kojima loves more than making video games that are artistic, lengthy, and full of weird charm, it's movies. The legendary author has long maintained a passion for all things film, filmmaking and more, often posting reviews of anything he watches on his social media channels for all to see.
These reviews usually have some kind of appreciation, perhaps criticism, and are almost always the life of the man himself in the theater.
This means that fans are convinced that Kojima was not a fan of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, the latest installment in the “Whodunit” Knives Out franchise. Why? Because Kojima's review wasn't a review.
Yeah, that's it. No accolades, no selfies, no deep dives into why the film hit so hard. Just “I was watching a movie.”
For what it's worth, we don't know exactly if Kojima actually hated the movie. There is a good chance that any criticism or appreciation would spoil things.
But if he did, then he'd likely be in the minority of viewers, as the film maintains an 81 on Metacritic out of 57 critic reviews and a user rating of 7.4
Compared to Rotten Tomatoes, this number is 92 percent from critics and 94 percent from users.
You know things are bad when Kojima even had nice things to say about Joker 2
Very quickly after Kojima's review went viral, fans began searching for all the instances where Kojima similarly “hated” a movie, and as we mentioned above, that's pretty rare.
A year ago, when Joker: Folie à Deux came out, Kojima shared a pretty nice review of the film, even discussing some of its finer details that would probably go over many viewers' minds.
By comparison, the Joker sequel has a 31 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes, both from critics and audiences.
The only other time fans could remember Kojima having nothing to share about a movie is when he was watching The Marvels. Except, at least at the time, he was sharing his obligatory selfie and some free swag he got.
Considering how much Kojima made it clear he wanted to make a movie before all was said and done, it will be fascinating to see what the reviews actually look like and if people will meme things when they say they've seen the movie.
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