Videogame Movies Pepper Rotten Tomatoes’ Worst of the Worst
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Movies based on videogames are well represented in Rotten Tomatoes’ “Worst of the Worst†— a countdown of the 100 most-despised movies of the last decade.
The depressing list is topped by a movie with a bizarre videogame heritage: Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring Lucy Liu and Antonio Banderas, was meant to be a movie first, but a videogame based on the screenplay (a first-person shooter for Game Boy Advance) made it to market before Warner Bros. could finish its stinker.
Rotten Tomatoes calls the actioner a “startlingly inept film.†Critics unanimously panned the film, burying the needle on the Tomato Meter, which tracks the “freshness†of a movie based on critics’ reviews, at 0 percent.
Everyone’s favorite cinematic whipping boy, Uwe Boll, bottomed out with four movies on the list. Alone in the Dark, In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, Bloodrayne and the director’s first videogame movie, House of the Dead, were all rotten enough to make the bottom hundred. Postal, Boll’s most recent videogame adaptation with a respectably rotten 8 percent on the Tomato Meter, was still much too good to be considered.
Recent videogame stinker Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun Li, dubbed “forgettable†by Rotten Tomatoes, was not overlooked. The dull adaptation of Capcom’s fan-favorite fighter was the 44th worst-reviewed movie of the decade.
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Other recent videogame movies, such as Hitman, Max Payne, Doom, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and the entire Resident Evil series, were spared the indignity of the bottom 100. They’ll simply have to live with mediocrity.
