The 10 Best Video Game Movies Of All Time

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Video game movies tend to run the gambit from very good to apocalyptically bad. Even without famously awful filmmaker Ewe Boll at the helm, most attempts to adapt games to the silver screen fall flat on their face. After all, it isn’t an easy task to cut a 40-hour video game experience into a two-hour movie. Still, there have been some memorable attempts over the years. Here are our picks for the best video game movies of all time.

By their nature, movies have to distill the essence of their source materials into the most basic elements. Sometimes this leads to focusing on the key aspects of what made the video game plots work. Most often, it leads to missing the point entirely. Getting a video game movie right is a careful balance and can’t be done simply by throwing A-list Hollywood voices at the script until it works.

The Assassin’s Creed franchise is already pretty cinematic, so it didn’t take a huge stretch of the imagination to see it jumping onto the big screen. The movie offers what feels like a side story from the games rather than trying to adapt any of their plots directly, which is a mark generally in its favor. It has solid action and special effects even if the plot is paper-thin. Overall, it is simply fun to watch, which makes it better than most video game movies.

2022’s Uncharted adaptation is helped by the fact that Tom Holland seems to genuinely love the video games the movie is based on, allowing him to home in on what makes Nathan Drake a loveable scoundrel. Mark Walberg delivers a reasonable Sully, though the lack of mustache until the post-credits scene is an unforgivable sin in our book. Really, the biggest mark