Video game movies are almost always bad, no matter how good the source material is. The major problem with making movies out of games stems from the fact that most of these games are classics because of how they play, not their stories. In many old school games the story is simply there as a means to an end, a reason for the hero to pursue his or her goal. While gaming has become much more cinematic in recent times, there are still very few games that have stories worth translating into other forms of media due to most of them being pretty derivative of existing movies in the first place.
Click here to read my choices for the worst video game movies of all time
Click here to read my choices for the worst video game movies of all time