I don't believe you should discredit a game because someone gave it a bad review, especially when the review comes from a "professional" reviewer. You could miss out on a game you could be having a good time with. The only example I can think of is this retro review site (I forget what it was) gave this game, Ranger X for the Genesis an "F" rating. That blew my mind, because I loved that game when I was a kid, so I fired it up again as an adult and I still enjoyed it.
But Duke Nukem Forever? That's a bad, bad game. The internet was right about that one.