(#10) Rampage
- Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Åkerman, Joe Manganiello, Jake Lacy, Marley Shelton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Rampage is one of those video games people probably never thought anyone would turn into a movie. Of course, the mind then wanders to the movie Battleship, and it's clear Hollywood will adapt anything. The original Rampage was released as an arcade cabinet in 1986, and several sequels and reboots have been made surrounding the central theme of city-wide destruction at the hands of three monsters.
In 2018, Dwayne Johnson showed up in an adaptation of the game, which did, in fact, offer up three gigantic monsters. Of course, there was some artistic license taken with how those city-destroying monsters came into the picture, but to be fair, there wasn't much of a 'story' to work with from the games. This movie is fun, and it's especially enjoyable if you're a fan of Johnson, which you absolutely should be.
Critics tore it apart for the pacing of its story but recognized the visual effects, which were brilliant. It may not have been a critical success, but it was a commercial blockbuster, having made more than $428 million on a budget of between $120 and $140 million.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52%
(#15) The Angry Birds Movie
- Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Kate McKinnon, Sean Penn, Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Bill Hader, Peter Dinklage
If there's one game nobody ever thought they would make a movie out of, it's Angry Birds. After all, it's just swiping your finger to topple some constructs and defeat immobile pigs, and there's not much of a story in that. As it happens, there isn't just a story there, there's enough to produce two feature films based on the title, and the first one was actually pretty good.
The film takes the general concept and throws wacky and fun character into the mix. It was also visually impressive, and while there are plenty of animated films out there these days, few are good enough to stand above the rest - especially when they aren't coming out of Pixar. While this movie is one the kids are certain to enjoy, it's a fun movie to watch as an adult as well.
Interestingly, Angry Birds received a score of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes, but its sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 2, sits with a "fresh" rating of %74, making it far more critically successful than its predecessor.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 43%
(#8) Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
- Gemma Arterton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Toby Kebbell, Ronald Pickup, Richard Coyle, Darwin Shaw, João Costa Menezes, Gísli Örn Gardarsson, Reece Ritchie, Dave Pope, Selva Rasalingam, Thomas DuPont, Steve Toussaint, Trampas Thompson, Claudio Pacifico, Dimitri Andreas, David Orpheus, Domonkos Pardanyi, Massimilano Ubaldi, Daisy Doidge-Hill, Vladimir 'Furdo' Furdik, Stephen A. Pope, Christopher Greet, Joseph Beddelem, Sean Francis George, Rachid Abbad, Emmanuel Akintunde, Simon De Selva, Rohan Siva, Shohreh Shojaeifard, Ali Nourbakhsh, Guy C.A., Parham Bahadoran, Amin Mohammad Fouladi, Christine Estima, Zartosht Safari, Elliot James Neale, Charlie Banks, Jesse Mathews, Mehrdad Azmin, Masoud Abbasi, William Foster, Ehsan Parvizian, Farzana Dua Elahe, Felix Quadros, Aziz El Kibachi, Babak Babakinejad
The first Prince of Persia game was released for the Apple II back in 1989, and it was incredibly popular, garnering millions of fans. The game featured rotoscoping to accurately depict the fluid movements of the titular character, making it an impressive visual game in the early days of computer gaming. A sequel followed four years later, but it wasn't until 2003 that the game leapt into a more modern representation with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
The game was adapted into a film of the same name and was a decent representation of the game, which itself has been called one of the greatest video games of all time. The film made several departures from the source material, which didn't please some fans at the time. Despite this, it was a major hit, having managed to earn an impressive $336 million at the box office. It was the highest-grossing video game movie ever made until it was supplanted by Warcraft in 2016.
This is one of those movies that you might really enjoy having never played the game. If you're a huge fan of the video game it's based on, you might not enjoy it as much. Some of the criticism levied at it dealt with the whitewashing of the cast, but if you can get beyond the fact that Jake Gyllenhaal is a Persian Prince, you can enjoy the movie.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 37%
(#12) Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
- Alec Baldwin, Steve Buscemi, James Woods, Donald Sutherland, Ming-Na Wen, Jean Simmons, Ving Rhames, Keith David, Dwight Schultz, John DiMaggio, Peri Gilpin, Lanei Chapman, Catherine Cavadini, Jack Fletcher, Annie Wu, John Demita, Matt Adler, David Michie, Alex Fernandez, David Arnott, Vicki Davis, Steve Alterman, Andrea Baker, Julia Fletcher, Matt McKenzie, Greg Finley, Richard Penn, Barbara Harris, David McCharen, Judi M. Durand, David Randolph, Tracy Metro, David Rasner
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within was directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, and holds the distinction of being the first photorealistic computer-animated feature film ever made. It was also the most expensive video game movie ever made until that record was taken from it by The Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time nine years later.
The movie isn't specifically based on a game in the franchise but relies instead on elements from those games to tell a unique story. It's visually stunning, even decades after it was first released, and the story is captivating. Unfortunately, it made less money than its backers would have liked, and due to the financial losses the company suffered, it has been blamed for the demise of Square Pictures, a film-production studio attached to Square Enix.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 45%
(#11) Resident Evil: Retribution
- Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Michelle Rodriguez, Wentworth Miller, Iain Glen, Sienna Guillory, James Purefoy, Boris Kodjoe, Kevin Durand, Sandrine Holt, Li Bingbing, Oded Fehr, Spencer Locke, Eric Mabius, Colin Salmon, Kim Coates, Mika Nakashima, Thomas Kretschmann, Shawn Roberts, Heike Makatsch, Liz May Brice, Johann Urb, Razaaq Adoti, Indra Ové, Joseph May, Megan Charpentier, Aryana Engineer, Martin Crewes, Pasquale Aleardi, Ray Olubowale, Sally Cahill, Norman Yeung, Parys Sylver, Amanda Dyar, Anna Bolt, Chris Sullins, Takato Yamashita, Ave Merson-O'Brian, Kevin Shand, Toshio Oki, Robin Kasyanov, Ofilio Portillo
Resident Evil: Retribution is the fifth installment of the Resident Evil film franchise, and sits as a direct sequel to Resident Evil: Afterlife, which was released two years prior. The film focuses on Alice after she's captured by the Umbrella Corporation, which forces her to escape and kill many, many people and monsters.
The movie was lambasted for everything from the characters to the plot and the acting, but one thing everyone seemed to agree that the movie did well was its use of 3D imaging. Ultimately, if you like the Resident Evil film franchise, you won't find much wrong with this movie, and it's something of a must-watch if you want to see the whole franchise of six films.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 29%
(#2) Mortal Kombat
- Bridgette Wilson, Frank Welker, Talisa Soto, Christopher Lambert, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Robin Shou, Chris Casamassa, Trevor Goddard, Linden Ashby, Sandy Helberg, Keith Cooke, François Petit
There weren't a lot of film adaptations of fighting games when the first Mortal Kombat movie was released in 1995, and to be fair, there haven't been many afterward either. The movie pulled in parts from the games and wove together a narrative around several central characters in such a way as to be completely cheesy and entertaining at the same time.
All that said, if you've seen the movie, you know the real appeal, and it's not so much what you see as it is what you hear. The theme music and techno beat that culminated in a loud "MORTAL KOMBAT" amidst the bass drop is one of the greatest aspects of this film... and it's not that horrible a movie either. It's got great fight choreography, a good cast, and it features Christopher Lambert in the most whitewashed role nobody cared to complain about at the time.
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 47%
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