The Raven has received more than 125 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes , and the site has described it as : `` Thinly scripted , unevenly acted , and overall preposterous , The Raven disgraces the legacy of Edgar Allen Poe with a rote murder mystery that 's more silly than scary . ''
The film holds a rating of 23 % on Rotten Tomatoes based on 123 reviews and a 44 on Metacritic .