Top 25 Highest Grossing Video Game Movies (and if they sucked)

25. Street Fighter (1994) had a domestic gross of $33,423,521, an opening weekend of $6,859,495 and a production budget of $35 million. This movie was so bad, some speculate Raul Julia, who once starred in a movie that was featured on MST3K, died of embarrassment. Still, it was one of Jean Claude Van-Damme's better written movies. I wish it had more Blanka, but I'd say it only mostly sucked. 2/5

24. The second Mortal Kombat film, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997), featured a cameo from nearly every MK character ever (except Stryker stupidly enough) and James Remar as a really crappy Raiden. The fights are way worse than in the first one too. This movie had a domestic total of $35,927,406, an opening weekend of $16,771,691 and a production budget of $30 million. No Stryker, crap Raiden, this movie is written worse than Virtua Fighter ending movies. 1/10

23. Hitman (2007) was written by a guy who wrote one of the worst Die Hard movies, and it shows. Starring the lead from Justified Timothy Olyphant, this movie is about as exciting as a loading screen. Still, it has Prison Break's Robert Knepper, so it's not Mortal Kombat 2 levels bad. 2/5

22. 2002's Resident Evil is so bad, it boils my blood. The whole series is just God-awful, to the point where I lost all hope the director of the first Mortal Kombat would ever have a repeat performance in putting together a decent video game movie. Plus, it exposed audiences to the fact that the half naked chick's from The 5th Element greatest skill is being half naked. 1/5

21. Featuring Marky Mark and Mila Kunis for some reason, Max Payne (2008) caused great pain for fans of the series. Someone here thought they'd make a video game inspired by great action movies into a moody film, showing they understood the source material about as well as I understood how to make my ex-wife happy. Still, it did give Beau Bridges a paycheck. 2.5/5

20. The Angry Birds Movie 2 from 2018 is something I've never seen, but I asked some of my friends with kids, and they all said the movie occupies their children's attention. So, I guess that makes it a perfect kid's movie? 5/5

19. Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) wasn't. Same crappy characters, same bastardization of the classic Biohazard story, same boring action set pieces. How this movie series has worse writing than the video games, which feature a man punching a boulder, is beyond me. 1/5

18. Need For Speed (2014) didn't necessarily get people racing to the theatres, even with hiring America's favorite meth-head, Jessie Pinkman. There was some decent action but nothing to write home about. This film does get an extra point for casting Billy Bedlam, but loses half a point for not having him pick up a stuffed bunny. 2.5/5

17. Pokemon: The Movie 2000 has one of my favorite titles of a film, since it was released in 1999. I won't watch Anime ever since I caught my father pleasuring himself to some weird tentacle scene when I was 12, so I can't rate this one. ?/5

16. If Silent Hill (2006) was as well written as it was visually put together, we might be looking at one of the best video game movies of all time. Instead, it's pretty awful trash, even if the aesthetic is pretty spot on. Still, since most horror movies suck, it's more forgivable than some of the offenders on this list. 2.5/5

15. Warcraft: The Beginning from 2016 is probably one of the suckiest movies I've had to document. While some movies are so bad they are entertaining to a degree, Warcraft is just boring. One park Tolkein, one park waste of money, if this movie was a person, there would be entire online communities who harass him or her. Yes, this movie is the film equivalent of Lorne Armstrong.

14. 2007's Resident Evil: Extinction, or as it is known in Japan, Pure Crap, is about as good as the rest of the series. I feel like that' enough of a description, and probably more than the flick deserves. 1/5

13: Resident Evil: Apocalypse (2004) also sucked. Surprised? No you aren't. 1/5

12. Assassins Creed (2016) probably didn't need to be made, since the series is so full of story and cutscenes it is like its own movie already. This flick isn't as bad as most on the list, but it's not really all that good either. About as average as a burger from Chili's. 2.5/5

11. Tomb Raider (2018) was made after they decided that Lara Croft shouldn't be busty, infuriating busty nerds who liked looking like a video game heroine and horny nerds everywhere. I'm in one of those categories, I'll let you guess which. Sometimes, it is okay to judge a book by its cover. 0/5

10. From 2010, Resident Evil: Afterlife was something that was filmed. 1/5

9. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life gets a point just for its stupid title, simple because I like long, dumb movie titles. It's also sometimes fun, and strangely enough one of the better movies on this list. A strong supporting cast lifts what is probably a boring script to read, but hey, the bar is set really low for this article. 2.5/5

8. Mortal Kombat came out in 1995, and created the idea in audiences of what a video game movie could be. While it did suffer from some really bizarre choices (which aren't all that hard to understand knowing that he'd go on to make the Resident Evil Alice series), there were enough things right for it to get people clapping their hands like a WWF audience during a Mo entrance. Johnny Cage and Raiden in particular were flawless victories. In my opinion, this is the greatest video game movie of all time, and should be the blueprint of both what to do and what not to do in order to create a perfect video game movie. 3.5/5

7. Pokémon: The First Movie - Mewtwo Strikes Back (2018) has to be my favorite anime of all time, just because it has to announce that it is the first film of the series, which you'd think one would know if they were a Pokemon fan. Maybe that is why the franchise is so successful, because they are newcomer friendly. Still, it's an anime, and I'm afraid of finding a tentacle scene, so I've never seen it. 0/5

6. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time from 2010 has some odd casting choices, and it's not the first time Ben Kingsley played someone from the region. This isn't what a Prince of Persia movie should have been, and fans of both the new series and the old took to it about as well as fish take to living outside of water. Still, I'm giving it an extra half a point because Alfred Molina adds at least that. 1.5/5

5. In 2018, "Rock the Dwayne" Johnson turned Rampage, 1986's silliest arcade game, into a blockbuster movie. Having George The Gorilla make a face didn't really represent the series well. Rampage was Godzilla the game without being Godzilla the game, this was a movie that didn't need a big budget star or a hero monster, and a perfect representation of the concept of Hollywood crapping on their source material by feeling the need to add to it, instead of delve into what is already created. 1/5

4. The Angry Birds movie, from 2016, apparently also occupies children's attention and allows parents a semblance of peace and quiet, albeit with The Angry Birds movie being audible. 5/5

3. Say what you will about Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), as video game movies go, is a fantastic tribute to the source material. Everything that made Lara sexy and cool Angelina Jolie brought to the screen, plus they cast her actual estranged father to play Lara's estranged father. Not a great movie, but when you compare it to only other video game movies and stop comparing it to Con Air to Yojimbo, it's pretty dang good. 3/5

2. Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) is my second favorite Pokemon vehicle to watch, next to the Chow Yun Fat movie from back in the day. Mind you, I don't love either of these movies, but at least I don't have to be afraid of tentacles. Pikachu is stupid levels of cute though, so that is something they did well. The cast does well, it's a fun kids movie. In a way, this film is shielded from harsher criticism because you have to judge a movie for children on a different level, as do video game flicks, so yes, this isn't Shakespeare, but for what it is, it's a pretty good movie. 3/5

1. Sega may have lost its console war with Sony and Nintendo, but it is winning in the profitable video game movie category. 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog brought in big bucks as fast as a Sonic speed runner runs through a level. As far as video game movies go, this adaptation was about as faithful as my ex-wife, and I enjoyed it about as much as I enjoyed that failed garbage heap of a marriage. 1/5

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