The 10 Best Video Game Movies of All Time

You'd deliberation pulling unneurotic a "best video crippled movies" database would beryllium reasonably casual fixed the meager magnitude of qualifying flicks... truthful we made it a spot much challenging with a Top 10! The question you should person present isn't "Oooh, which movies made the cut?" but alternatively "Wow, determination are really 10 decent movies based connected video games?"

Yes, efficaciously translating games to movie has ever been 1 of Hollywood's biggest challenges, adjacent arsenic games became much and much story-focused, acting similar long-form movies successful their ain right. It's understandable wherefore aged schoolhouse furniture games and platformers, with scant narratives, would beryllium pugnacious to accommodate but modern games travel astir automatically assembled for the large screen. How hard is it to marque an Uncharted movie erstwhile the Uncharted games consciousness similar movies? As it turns out? Super gd difficult.

So games-to-movies is inactive a heck of a seed to crack, apparently, but successful caller years we've been seeing immoderate marked improvement. (And we didn't adjacent cheat by including all 3 Sonic the Hedgehog movies... though possibly we should have!)

And a note: This database is made up of movies that are based connected existent games. It does not see movies that are about video games (The Wizard, Pixels) oregon the galore movies that diagnostic a made-up crippled (Free Guy, Ready Player One, Wreck-It Ralph, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, etc.).

With A Minecraft Movie landing connected our doorstep this week, here's our Top 10 Video Game Movies of All Time!

10. Street Fighter (1994)

Our authoritative crap introduction here, since we person to admit that immoderate video crippled movies are superb schlock, is the goofy blameworthy pleasance of 1994’s Street Fighter. Look, astir video games astatine the clip were either platformers oregon warring games so… not a batch of communicative was unfolding. And Street Fighter was benignant of precisely what you wanted from a Street Fighter movie.

Popping up close toward the extremity of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s heyday (he’d inactive person the underrated Peter Hyams’ movies Timecop and Sudden Death to unleash), Street Fighter has present meandered implicit into beloved cult movie territory, with a crazed formed that included Ming-Na Wen, Kylie Minogue, Wes Studi, and the precocious large Raul Julia (in what would beryllium his last movie role). Written and directed by screenwriter Steven E. de Souza (Die Hard, The Running Man, Richochet), Street Fighter was transformed into a Van Damme vehicle, making Colonel Guile the cardinal quality and guaranteeing a ton of roundhouse rotation kicks.

9. Rampage (2018)

This is astir decidedly the champion movie you could person whipped up based connected the 1986 arcade crippled featuring Godzilla and Kong-esque monsters, and their champion pal -- a elephantine Werewolf -- climbing buildings, eating people, swatting planes, and past reducing said buildings to rubble. For 2018's Rampage, however, the conflict lines were a small different. It was Lizard and Wolf vs. Ape and... Rock.

Yes, Dwayne Johnson re-teamed with manager Brad Peyton (following Journey 2: The Mysterious Island and San Andreas) for a smash-em-up catastrophe flick each astir mutant beasts tussling in, and subsequently leveling, Chicago.

8. Uncharted (2022)

Asked successful the intro: How hard could it beryllium to marque a bully Uncharted movie? Putting aside, of course, however hard it is to marque immoderate movie, successful general.

The Uncharted games not lone play similar enactment movies, with eye-popping interactive cutscenes that are fundamentally stunt spectaculars (one of which adjacent coiled up kinda/sorta successful Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning), but the games themselves were besides influenced by classical action-adventure flicks similar the Indiana Jones films.

The prime to person stars Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg played aged-down versions (that's Hollywood, baby!) of leader Nathan Drake and mentor Victor "Sully" Sullivan soured immoderate fans of the crippled franchise portion besides robbing the movie of Uncharted's bosom and lived-in appeal, but the enactment was decent (particularly the 3rd enactment acceptable piece) and determination was capable charisma connected acceptable to let this mixtape of Uncharted characters and lore to persevere.

7. Resident Evil (2002)

With wide prime up for spirited debate, the azygous astir resilient video crippled movie franchise is the Paul W. S. Anderson Resident Evil series. Spanning 2 decades, with six movies, Resident Evil became the small Umbrella Corporation motor that could with its ain marque of cheese-tastic enactment and horror.

Representing the full tally -- and adjacent the much caller Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City reboot successful 2021 and the abstracted Netflix bid successful 2022 -- is the 2002 original, featuring The Fifth Element's Milla Jovovich arsenic amnesiac heroine Alice, who joins up with a set of warriors to conflict the sinister Umbrella Corporation and the scourge of the zombie-creating T-virus.

Mixing up assorted parts of the archetypal 2 Resident Evil games, this archetypal movie nicely acceptable the signifier for 25 much years of RE films. With 28 Days Later and the Dawn of the Dead reboot helping popularize zombie fearfulness astatine the commencement of this century, Resident Evil recovered itself successful a saccharine spot being capable to propulsion from games filled with undead monsters and tons of dystopian lore.

Oh, and the franchise isn't done reinventing itself either, arsenic a marque caller mentation from Barbarian's Zach Cregger is slated for 2026.

6. Mortal Kombat (2021)

With this database we're trying to onslaught a equilibrium betwixt aged and caller erstwhile it comes to video crippled movies, honoring aged adaptation attempts and erstwhile large swings portion besides saluting the newer grittier and grounded reboots. 2021's Mortal Kombat, which gets a much-buzzed-about sequel successful 2025, deed each the close notes erstwhile it came to satellite building, bone-crunching action, and occasional wit. It took the iconic, pivotal warring crippled and gave it a caller sheen, showcasing our heroes' quest to prevention Earth from Outworld hostiles portion utilizing the revenge communicative betwixt Scorpion and Sub-Zero arsenic the film's... er, spine.

But we'll besides propulsion immoderate emotion to Paul W. S. Anderson's archetypal 1995 adaptation. Yes, earlier helium cracked the Resident Evil code, Anderson had a bully '90s deed with the archetypal Mortal Kombat movie - a fun, campy clang people successful throwing a warring crippled up connected the large screen.

5. Tomb Raider (2018)

And here's another legendary crippled franchise that has been moving for truthful agelong we've gotten into reboot territory. So overmuch truthful that the Tomb Raider movie from 2018 was based connected an wholly antithetic rebooted crippled bid -- the Survivor Trilogy -- than the erstwhile 2 Angelina Jolie films, which had large enactment directors astatine the helm successful the signifier of Simon West and Jan de Bont.

The caller Tomb Raider, starring Ex Machina's Alicia Vikander, was a thoughtful, breathtaking reworking of the 2013 game, the archetypal of the caller trilogy, and included the land of Yamatai escapade that helps alteration young Lara Croft from an aimless heiress into globe-trotting adventurer. Or, survivor, if you will, arsenic this root communicative portrays Lara arsenic a scrappy, skin-of-her-teeth benignant much than a assured enactment hero.

A sequel was successful the works for a portion until COVID delays stalled everything up truthful overmuch that MGM coiled up losing the movie rights to the crippled franchise successful 2022. Such a pity. Trinity's decidedly down this.

4. The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023)

The little said astir the archetypal Super Mario Bros. movie from 1993 the better, though it is simply a fascinating survey from a blockbuster catastrophe standpoint. And the film's present wandered into "so atrocious it's good... but it's inactive bad" territory. Overall, it was a live-action miscalculation of epic proportions.

That archetypal effort to bring Mario and Luigi was truthful abysmal that it fundamentally stamped retired each aboriginal tries. Nintendo fundamentally stopped licensing its characters for movies. Almost 30 years later, the Super Mario curse was breached with a vibrant, delightful animated movie that fundamentally printed wealth astatine the container office. The Mario Bros. satellite was conscionable excessively ridiculous and disjointed -- plumbers, princesses, mushrooms, Bowsers -- for live-action and needed to thrive successful a cartoon environment. This fantastical communicative needed a fantastical presentation. And portion the casting of Chris Pratt arsenic Mario became a sticking constituent for the internet, nary 1 yet gave a s***. Everything worked here.

3. Detective Pikachu (2019)

The live-action/animation hybrid Detective Pikachu was a clever, heartfelt dive into the immense satellite of Pokemon, with Ryan Reynolds voicing a smart, sleuthing Pikachu who teams with Justice Smith's forlorn erstwhile Pokemon trainer, Tim, who's the lone idiosyncratic who tin perceive this peculiar Pikachu talk. Together they analyse the decease of Tim's estranged begetter successful Ryme City. This energetic, offbeat instrumentality connected the unsocial crippled satellite led to container bureau gold, making Detective Pikachu the highest-grossing video crippled movie of each clip (at the time). Great quality arcs, astonishing communicative twists -- the movie intelligibly understood the assignment. As of now, a sequel is supposedly inactive "in the works."

2. Werewolves Within (2021)

The least-watched movie connected this database for sure, and based connected the least-known crippled connected the database (a VR crippled for Oculus Rift from 2016), Josh Ruben's Werewolves Within is simply a hilarious, freaky monster enigma starring Sam Richardson (Veep, The Detroiters) arsenic a caller parkland ranger successful a tiny municipality afloat of feuding citizens who are either being bumped disconnected by their ain neighborly rivals or... a gruesome beast stalking from the woods. Filled with funny, accentuated by co-stars Milana Vayntrub (our mislaid Squirrel Girl), Michaela Watkins (Heart Eyes), and George Basil (Severance), Werewolves Within is simply a large ticker and a must-add to each Spooky Seasons marathons.

1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)

We already told you that the Sonic movies weren't taking up 3 spots, truthful present stands Sonic the Hedgehog 3 -- the champion of the 3 movies to day and besides the rep for the caller Sonic franchise arsenic a whole. The Sonic the Hedgehog movies person gotten amended with each installment, with the bid arsenic a full having genuinely perfected the mode to bring Sega's bonkers console-launching speedy platformer to beingness with animation and live-action.

It's high-octane household amusive that managed to find the cleanable dependable for Sonic successful Ben Schwartz, balancing snarky and sweet. It's besides liable for bringing Jim Carrey retired of blockbuster retirement, gifting a full caller procreation with his incomparable comedic antics. It feels similar a modern cinematic occurrence that we've present managed to get Sonic and Mario up successful movie theaters successful big, palmy ways. And Sonic the Hedgehog 3 was the deepest, astir effectual movie truthful far. The chemistry betwixt Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles successful the movie is spot-on and Keanu Reeves voicing Shadow was impeccable casting.

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