It was a decent movie, why so much hate?

Thanks for the heads up, I want to check this one out..

The low metascore reflects thier review bias. They only found 4 reviews?

They leave out common sense media, which reviews most films. 3/5:
https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/the-professor-and-the-madman

Roger Ebert gave it 1½/4, which is what you expect from a zombie!

I didn't read the reviews, but I didn't like the movie because Sean Penn was sooo overwrought in his performance. It is a fascinating story and the movie should have been much better.

Is it getting a lot of hate?

It's getting hammered by the critics but the RT audience score is 71%.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_professor_and_the_madman

It also has a 7.3 on IMDB.

I watched it today and enjoyed it. Penn's performance is a little weird, but Gibson is excellent, the story is interesting and it's well-directed.

It's a shame the film, reportedly, was not actually finished. I guess that's why it ends somewhat abruptly. It is already a good film. I can only imagine how good it would've been if it had not run into production problems and had been finished to Mel's liking.

I don't get it either. Maybe they don't like Gibson for his politics?

Or maybe because it's just a traditional kind of film telling an actual story?

boring??

I enjoyed the film. A bit sullen for my taste but well done. I always love Natalie Dormer so I was jazzed to see her.

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall watching Penn and Gibson interacting off camera.

7.5/10

It's an awesome movie, hate could be because it has a lot of controversies: https://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a26823219/mel-gibson-professor-and-the-madman-movie-controversy/

but why bring up superhero movies? weird