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Postal opens on two terrorists in the cockpit of a plane, fighting about how many virgins greet martyrs when they enter heaven. Here it is, a movie that should make you think Warcraft is high art. Our regrets to any staunch defenders of those two titles. But briefly, an explanation: Entries had to be live action, meaning no Angry Birds, and while BloodRayne is on this list, BloodRayne: Deliverance and BloodRayne: The Third Reich had little to do with the source material, so they were left out of the rankings. So, here’s every video-game movie ranked according to its place in the video-game movie canon, starting with the most absolutely unwatchable and descending down to rare work of honest to god quality. Street Fighter is always going to suffer in comparison to, say, Die Hard, but if you consider it in the context of similar fare, things start to look a little more impressive.

It’s useless to judge video-game movies the way we judge other movies, so Vulture has decided to weigh them exclusively against their peers. Promising growth is happening in the game movie space, and for that we should rejoice!īut while the paradigm might be shifting ever so slightly, B-movie status is historically the ceiling on these kinds of products. Alicia Vikander’s Tomb Raider has garnered a respectable chorus of supporters in the years since its release, and 2021’s Werewolves Within turned out to be a straight up gem. It eked out a positive critical consensus and even reintroduced the singular physical comedy stylings of Jim Carrey after a long Serious Film hiatus. But things started to change with the arrival of Sega and Paramount’s lovable live-action Sonic the Hedgehog in 2020. In the three decades since the release of the first game-to-screen movie, 1993’s Super Mario Bros., there have been precious few good entries in the genre (in a critical sense).

Something has happened in video-game adaptations over the past few years. This article was originally published in 2016 and has been updated to include recent releases, including this month’s Sonic 2. Photo-Illustration: Vulture/Photos by Universal Pictures, Capcom, Paramount Pictures, Warner Bros, Midway, Buena Vista Pictures, Sony Pictures Releasing and Core Design

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