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The GTA 6 Extended Look Is Getting Movie Reviews on Letterboxd — and It’s Sitting at 4.2 Stars
Grand Theft Auto VI now has something no video game has ever had before its release: tens of thousands of user reviews on a film rating site. Letterboxd — the social network where cinephiles log and rate movies — added Rockstar’s 25-plus-minute Extended Look as a loggable title after its Netflix premiere, and the community has responded exactly how you’d expect: deadpan film-critic parody, five-star hype, and at least one plea to give the ad an Oscar.
What Happened
When Rockstar partnered with Netflix to premiere the Extended Look — a deep-dive presentation on GTA 6’s world, protagonists Jason and Lucia, and its systems — nobody predicted the follow-up: the trailer landing on Letterboxd as “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look (2026),” complete with a poster, a release year, and a ratings page. Users can log it as watched, star it, and write full reviews, exactly as they would for an actual film.
And oh, they’re writing reviews. The current average sits at a lofty 4.2 out of 5, with tens of thousands of ratings already logged — roughly 58% of them five stars. The most-liked review, from user eddyburback, is a masterclass in the form: “Structure was a mess, narrative was vague and confusing (felt like a trailer instead of a movie), animation looked like a video game. I would be embarrassed to release this film.” The punchline, delivered like a true cinephile breaking character: “gameplay looked incredible.”
The joke reviews keep stacking up. One user wrote that it’s “unbelievable the trailer starts with Cyberleek’s execution” — a nod to the still-unidentified figure behind the GTA 6 leaks, whose saga dominated August. Another deadpanned that the Extended Look is “Netflix’s Oscar contender for best short film.” A third simply asked the question the whole experiment raises: “So we are logging ads now?” And user Albert summed up the moment for the gaming side of the site: “GTA in Letterboxd before GTA VI.”
Not everyone is joking. User Stephanie Gillespie gave it one star with a genuinely scathing critique: “Legitimately embarrassing. Where Rockstar used to do these fascinating trailers that talked you through tech and mechanics to really show why their games are interesting, this is just … A bunch of limply edited-together footage of Grand Theft Auto.” One star or five, the verdict that matters is the aggregate — and a 4.2 is the kind of score most actual Netflix originals would kill for.
A Video Game Trailer Is Now Technically a Netflix Film
The Letterboxd listing is only possible because of how far the Netflix partnership actually went. The Extended Look didn’t just air alongside Netflix content — it premiered on the platform, and as we covered, it didn’t take long before the trailer itself hit No. 1 on Netflix’s own movie chart, out-viewing actual films on the service. Letterboxd’s “Where to watch” section now lists the title with a direct Netflix play link. By every technical definition the platforms care about, GTA 6’s marketing is a 2026 release film.
That blurring is the real story here. Rockstar has always edited its trailers like cinema — and the community has long treated them that way, from Trailer 2’s frame-by-frame detail hunts to the record-setting 3.97 million concurrent viewers the Extended Look reveal pulled. Letterboxd simply formalized the relationship. When the man who played Michael in GTA 5 says the Extended Look “looks nothing like GTA 5,” maybe the correct venue for that argument really is a film review site.
The Reviews Are the Best Part
Spend five minutes scrolling the page and you’ll find the full spectrum of Letterboxd culture. There’s the mock-outrage contingent, like the reviewer who couldn’t get past the format. There’s the sincere hype squad logging five-star ratings with nothing but fire emojis. There’s the meta-commentary — “GTA in Letterboxd before GTA VI” now reads as prophecy, since the actual game still has no release-day page of its own. And there’s the Portuguese-language review going viral on its own merits, which roughly translates to: “Let’s be honest? It’s absurdly good. Is Rockstar a mercenary company? Yes. Do they deserve what’s coming? Yes. But nobody makes games like they do.” Three hundred likes and climbing.
The rating distribution tells its own story. At last check, 58% of users handed out five stars and another 23% landed at four or four-and-a-half — but a very real 7% went two stars or below, which means thousands of people have now formally rated a video game trailer as a bad movie. Somewhere in that spread is the only statistically honest review of GTA 6’s marketing campaign ever assembled: the internet, forced to pick a number, mostly picked love.
What This Means for GTA 6
Two things are happening at once. First, the comedy: a 4.2-star average for a trailer is the internet at its best, and the joke reviews are doing more organic marketing than a hundred ad buys — every screenshot of “animation looked like a video game” is a free engagement cycle. Second, the strategy: Rockstar treating a game preview as a streaming-platform premiere — complete with a Letterboxd page and a No. 1 Netflix ranking — signals exactly how the publisher plans to carry GTA 6’s cultural moment into launch. This is a game being marketed as the biggest entertainment release of the decade, full stop.
The movie-industry comparisons haven’t stopped at Letterboxd, either. Last week, the internet spent days comparing Jason Duval’s incomprehensible mumbling to Tom Hardy’s Bane in The Dark Knight Rises — a debate we tracked in our Jason voice actor breakdown. When your game’s trailer is spawning both film-review parodies and superhero-movie voice memes in the same fortnight, you’ve crossed out of “gaming news” territory entirely. GTA 6 is now just… entertainment news.
The reception underneath the memes backs the hype up. Tech analysts have called GTA 6 the most visually advanced game ever shown, the reveal set viewership records, and preorders are already in the millions. GTA 6 launches November 19, 2026 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S — confirmed. Between now and then, expect the Letterboxd page to keep filling up. The only review that actually matters arrives in 80 days.
While You Wait: Rate It Yourself
Want to form your own five-star verdict before November? The Extended Look is streaming on Netflix now, and the best way to follow along with every frame is on a big screen — 65-inch 4K gaming TVs with 120Hz HDMI 2.1 are built for exactly this kind of November. Once you’ve logged your Letterboxd review, GTA V on current consoles is still the perfect refresher course.
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