In many ways, it is difficult to choose the worst movies based on video games because there is a big choice. Taking a successful video game and developing into a good movie is something the film industry have always struggled to do and therefore, we have plenty to choose from when ranking the worst video game movie adaptions.
So, where do you begin? Well, the one movie that perhaps stands above all others in terms of being the worst movie based on a video game is Alone in the Dark. Released in 2005 and produced by Uwe Boll, who goes down as being the king of bad video game based movies, Alone in the Dark stars Tara Reid as a brilliant archaeologist and Christian Slater as a supernatural detective. Beginning with the opening titles, this movie is baffling and the titles only lead to more confusion than if they were not on the screen at all. Sex scenes and special effects seem to be the main goal of Alone in the Dark and they come at the huge detriment of any meaningful and understandable plot. If you want to waste 100 minutes of your time, watching Alone in the Dark is a good choice. Just remember, when you are watching the 90 second long text crawl, it was reportedly put there because a test audience said they could not understand the film.
In terms of a being a complete waste of money, it is worth remembering, should you choose to watch it, that Mortal Kombat: Annihilation cost almost double the amount of money to make than the previous Mortal Kombat film. As you watch the awful special effects throughout the movie, the original Mortal Kombat film gets better by the second and that is saying something. If the goal was to make the original Mortal Kombat movie look great, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation succeeded. However, we know that was not the case yet it does seem as though Mortal Kombat: Annihilation was deliberately made to be awful. As a fighting based film, perhaps the narrative is not of huge importance but having sat through the film, you will be left asking yourself at the end, ‘what was that all about’? Unfortunately, no one seems to have the answer.
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If Alone in the Dark takes top spot in our worst movies based on video games, followed by Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, then House of the Dead is not far behind. This is the second film in the list by Uwe Boll and is based on the first-person shooter of the same name. Look out for the poor Matrix-style bullet effects, bad editing, and a lot of violence in a movie that really disappoints.
