Films Based on Video Games

Name all of the feature films based on video games that have had major international releases.
Only includes films based on the plot of a video game, not films about video games like Wreck-It Ralph, or 80-minute video game commericals like The Wizard.
Also does not include documentaries on video games, like The King of Kong, even though that was awesome.
RT % = score on Rotten Tomatoes, a composite score from film critics.
*originally scheduled for wide release in the USA but distributors and theaters backed out of the deal.
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Year
RT %
Answer
1993
16%
Super Mario Bros.
1994
8%
Double Dragon
1994
12%
Street Fighter
1995
33%
Mortal Kombat
1997
3%
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
1999
10%
Wing Commander
1999
14%
Pokemon the First Movie - Mewtwo vs. Mew
2000
15%
Pokemon - The Movie 2000
2001
19%
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
2001
22%
Pokemon 3: The Movie
2001
44%
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
2002
33%
Resident Evil
2002
14%
Pokemon 4Ever
2003
24%
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life
2003
4%
House of the Dead
2004
21%
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
2005
1%
Alone in the Dark
2005
19%
Doom
2006
4%
BloodRayne
2006
29%
Silent Hill
Year
RT %
Answer
2006
34%
DOA: Dead or Alive
2007*
8%
Postal
2007
22%
Resident Evil: Extinction
2007
14%
Hitman
2008
4%
In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale
2008
16%
Max Payne
2009
6%
Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
2010
36%
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
2010
23%
Resident Evil: Afterlife
2012
31%
Resident Evil: Retribution
2012
5%
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D
2014
22%
Need for Speed
2015
8%
Hitman: Agent 47
2016
16%
Ratchet and Clank
2016
43%
The Angry Birds Movie
2016
29%
Warcraft
2016
18%
Assassin's Creed
2017
35%
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
2017
 
Uncharted
11 Comments
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Level 81
Nov 26, 2013
Interesting to me that the Final Fantasy movie is actually the best-reviewed video game movie of all time. Not much of an accomplishment I guess, looking at this list, but it's something. I had high hopes for that movie but it turned out pretty bad. I saw it at a special advanced screening in San Francisco. Hironobu Sakaguchi was in attendance and I met him in the bathroom before the show. Afterwards there was a standing ovation and he was in tears (of joy). He was probably in tears again when he saw the box office returns and general consensus among critics. Too bad they will probably never take one of the really great stories in video games like Final Fantasy VII or FF6 and just give it the Peter Jackson treatment. Instead they keep giving work to Uwe Boll.
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Level 12
Jun 1, 2017
My god, I feel so stupid for not getting the Pokemon ones. I have failed you, Team Rocket!
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Level 18
Oct 18, 2014
Couldn't you just accept Mario?
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Level 81
Oct 18, 2014
ok. Just significantly loosened up the type-ins. You're welcome.
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Level 68
Nov 19, 2014
19/31. Terrible movies, great games. I have a small hint of love for the Mortal Kombat films despite their obvious flaws because they are so terrible they are actually enjoyable.

Final Fantasy was beautifully made but the plot was a bore.

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Level 81
Nov 20, 2014
I have to admit I loved the first Mortal Kombat movie when it came out, too. It was so kitschy and lame... but... it didn't try to be more than it was. It stayed pretty true to the game, the fight scenes were reasonably well coreographed, and it was fun. The 2nd movie, though, I thought was abysmal. I think my cousin and I actually walked out of the theater. I've only done that twice in my life.
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Level 81
Jul 21, 2016
So... Final Fantasy just barely retained its lead to hold on to the title of best-reviewed video game movie of all time. And... the 2nd best reviewed? A movie based on a game with a plot about throwing birds at rocks and blocks of wood. oy
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Level 90
Jan 29, 2019
This quiz is in need of a major update. The latest Tomb Raider reboot and Rampage both dethroned Final Fantasy as the highest-reviewed video game movies (still in the 50’s, which isn’t great but it’s progress). And then there’s the ones that are either about to be released or are still in development, like Detective Pikachu, Sonic the Hedgehog, Monster Hunter, a Mario reboot, and the ones I’m really dreading: Minecraft and Angry Birds 2.
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Level 81
Jan 29, 2019
yep. I've just had other things going on lately but thanks, I'll try to get around to it at some point.
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Level 51
Oct 4, 2023
FNAF movie coming soon tho
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Level 81
Feb 11, 2024
this is very out of date now and probably not going to be updated in the future. I mean... it's missing the Super Mario Bros movie from 2023 which was one of the highest-grossing movies of the year and most commercially successful video game adaptations of all time. If I was still updating I might even make room for TV series adaptations, as HBO's The Last of US is probably hands down the most critically successful video game adaptation ever made.