These are the worst of the worst
Films adapted from their video-game counterparts are notoriously bad. They're typically the kind of movies that make you ponder to yourself, "How in the hell did this get made?!"
With that being said, it's time to highlight the worst of the worst, based on Metacritic's unique critic scoring algorithm.
20. The Angry Birds Movie (tie)
The Angry Birds Movie, aptly named after the wildly popular mobile game, is the best of the worst when it comes to big-screen video-game flicks. The 2016 adaptation was a little too loud and obnoxious for the brave ones who survived this poor excuse for a children’s movie.
MetaScore: 43.
20. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (tie)
This globetrotting sequel offers even more exciting Tomb Raider adventures as Angelina Jolie reprises her role as the courageous Croft.
Michael Atkinson of the Village Voice said of the movie, "it wouldn't be fair to gripe about the hundreds of plot holes; the whole thing is hole."
MetaScore: 43.
19. Resident Evil: Extinction
This 2007 film is the highest-rated in the Resident Evil saga, which isn’t exactly high praise. Jovovich reprises her role as Alice in the poor-man’s version of Mad Max.
MetaScore: 41.
18. Need for Speed
In this 2014 adaptation of the best-selling racing game, Aaron Paul of Breaking Bad fame stars as street racer Tobey Marshall, who is looking for vengeance after being wrongly convicted.
Unfortunately for fans of the game, Need for Speed wasn’t anywhere near fast or furious enough in its two-plus hour runtime.
MetaScore: 39.
10. Silent Hill
This 2006 horror film took a mother to the deadly deserted town of Silent Hill to find a cure for her daughter’s illness.
The San Francisco Chronicle summed up the movie’s problems by saying, “Silent Hill has plenty of bad acting, bad dialogue and a confusing plot.”
MetaScore: 30.
17. Dead or Alive
This incredibly irrelevant movie—based on Tecmo’s Dead or Alive franchise—tells the tale of four rival women who must team up to defeat the forces of evil.
In its blistering movie review, the Austin Chronicle called this 2007 film “a piece of garbage and the best argument for reading books.”
MetaScore: 38.
16. Hitman
Starring Timothy Olyphant as Agent 47, Hitman struggled to make the genetically-engineered assassin-for-hire a likable character—who knew? Todd McCarthy of Variety called the 2007 film "numbingly unthrilling" and said it "misses its target by a mile."
MetaScore: 35.
15. Doom
This 2005 film based on the game of the same name stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and other dudes, who are attacked by genetically-engineered monsters on a Mars base.
Although the film is pretty forgettable, the best part comes when it mirrors the first-person shooter aesthetic of the game.
MetaScore: 34.
13. Resident Evil (tie)
The original Resident Evil--adapted from the incredibly popular video game series--stars Milla Jovovich as Alice, an amnesiac who must prevent the outbreak of the T-virus. It’s the lowest-rated in the saga, but it did spawn multiple sequels because of its box-office success ($102.4 million).
MetaScore: 33.
13. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (tie)
It seems as if the role of Lara Croft was tailor fit for Angelina Jolie. It’s just too bad that the original film was uninspiring and as slow as molasses.
MetaScore: 33.
12. Warcraft
Set in the world of Azeroth, this 2016 film portrays the first confrontations between the humans and orcs. In development for a decade, the film is the highest-grossing video game adaptation ever thanks to strong interest from Chinese audiences, surpassing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
A sequel has yet to be announced.
MetaScore: 32.
11. Max Payne
Sadly, Max Payne feels like it was entirely shot in “Bullet Time”--the slow-motion effect from the game series.
But it's not all bad: Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune said Mark Wahlberg's acting boosted the film from "bottom of the dumpster" to a "top-of-the-dumpster movie."
MetaScore: 31.
9. Ratchet and Clank
This 2016 film finds our two heroes--Ratchet and Clank--in a struggle to stop the sinister Chairman Drek from destroying the Solana Galaxy.
Not only was the animation panned by critics and viewers, it also had an unhealthy obsession with guns for a movie aimed at children.
MetaScore: 29.
8. Hitman: Agent 47
Nearly a decade after the original Hitman movie struck out at the box office, the series was rebooted with this 2015 film. The film failed to capture any passing resemblance to the beloved gaming series.
MetaScore: 28.
7. Bloodrayne
This 2006 action-adventure (comedy?) film was so incredibly bad that Michael Madsen--who played Vladimir in Bloodrayne--called it “an abomination … a horrifying and preposterous movie.”
MetaScore: 18.
6. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
This straight-to-DVD action film told the origin tale of some of the most iconic Street Fighter characters to date. Unfortunately, it was panned for awful dialogue and terribly staged action scenes.
MetaScore: 17.
3. Silent Hill: Revelation 3D (tie)
This sequel follows Heather Mason, who is drawn to the town of Silent Hill on the eve of her 18th birthday.
The silver lining in this crap storm? This film starred future Game of Thrones vets Sean Bean (Ned Stark) and Kit Harrington (Jon Snow).
MetaScore: 15.
3. In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (tie)
In this abomination, Jason Statham stars as a fighter named Farmer--seriously--who must protect the mighty Castle Ebb from evil. The New York Times called it an “awkward Lord of the Rings knockoff.”
MetaScore: 15.
3. House of the Dead (tie)
With a disorienting combination of terrible techno, monster makeup and zombies, it’s an upset that this film isn’t considered the worst video game adaptation ever, nay, the worst movie of all time.
MetaScore: 15.
2. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
Although this sequel picks up where the 1995 original left off, just two of the lead actors reprised their roles in Annihilation.
L.A. Weekly’s Hazel-Dawn Dumpert stated that she would rather “lock a child in a room before [she’d] show him Mortal Kombat: Annihilation.” So there’s that.
MetaScore: 11.
1. Alone in the Dark
In what can only be described as the trifecta of phenomenal actors, Tara Reid, Christian Slater, and Stephen Dorff star in one of the worst movies ever released to the public.
In fact, this 2005 abomination so terrible that it earned a spot on Metacritic's list of the worst movies of all time.
MetaScore: 9.
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