Dwayne Johnson doesn't care about bad Baywatch reviews

From Digital Spy

The new big screen Baywatch movie hasn't had the best critical reception, with everyone from Mark Kermode to, ermmm, us giving it a bad review.

Star Dwayne Johnson seems to be taking it in his stride, though, joking about how the critics hate the film but the audiences are loving it.

The film originally sat at 13% on Rotten Tomatoes' (in)famous tomatometer before a fan notified Johnson that an influx of positive reviews had bumped it up to an 18%.

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"Yay positive upticks," he tweeted. "Fans LOVE the movie. Critics HATE it. What a glaring disconnect. People just want to laugh & have fun."

Anyone want to tell him that that score has gone up yet again? It's currently standing at a grand total of 19% at the time of writing...

Johnson later tweeted that "critics had their venom & knives ready" which led to accusations of him 'attacking' critics, which he said wasn't his style.

He followed it up with a video showing various fans talking about how much they loved the film, adding: "Fans across the country havin' a BLAST & LOVING #Batwatch. Veryyy happy audience = best part of my job."

Well, we don't about 'Batwatch', but there's no denying the fans are certainly loving Baywatch in the clip:

It's good to see Dwayne focus on making the fans happy, because at the end of day, not every film you make is going to be critically and/or commercially successful, and Dwayne Johnson is signed up for a LOT of films.

Off the top of our heads there's Shazam, Jumanji, Journey 3, Rampage, Doc Savage, Jungle Cruise, Big Trouble in Little China, The Janson Detective, Skyscraper, Alpha Squad Seven and now, Baywatch 2.

In case all the audience joy has changed your mind about seeing the film, here's that trailer again for you:

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