10 best video game movies of all time

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Video game movies have been the subject of plenty of ridicule over the last handful of decades. Wounded fans have long complained that out-of-touch Hollywood bigwigs just don’t get the things they’re adapting, and conventional wisdom has always held that video game movies are simply bad.

Fortunately for me, conventional wisdom is wrong. Yes, there are a lot of awful video game movies made by lazy filmmakers trying to cash in on a brand name. But there are also a lot of really excellent films based on video games – particularly in recent years. Video game movies show no sign of slowing down, so I’d like to go through ten of the finest examples ever made.

Uncharted, the 2022 adaptation of Naughty Dog’s beloved action game series, does not reinvent any wheels. It is a competent-enough pastiche of better adventure movies and not much else. In that way, it’s kind of a perfect Uncharted movie.

The original Uncharted was a fairly unassuming riff on adventure films like Indiana Jones and The Mummy. The Uncharted movie simply moves that formula back into the medium of film. Like the games, the movie Uncharted is buoyed by a charming cast of well-realized characters. Tom Holland may not quite resemble the Nathan Drake we know and love, but he’s still a fantastic screen presence. Even Mark Wahlberg, who’s spent the last several years sleepwalking through Transformers movies and faith-based films, is actually delivering a pretty solid performance. It’s nothing new, and there are certainly better adventure films, but Uncharted is a damn good time.

Remember all that stuff I said about Uncharted? That’s all entirely true of 2018’s Tomb Raider, too. It’s another solid (but not particularly groundbreaking) riff on adventure movies of