Ever since
Super Mario Bros. and
Double Dragon received Hollywood film adaptations that met with financial flops and critical scorn, video game movies have a reputation of being inferior to the video game source materials on which they are based with very few to no exceptions. Fans who are most familiar with that sort of reputation are sure to remember how the first
Mortal Kombat movie tipped the tides of video games movies a little bit, how the
Resident Evil films managed to get away with profits in spite of numerous negative reviews among critics and fans, and how Uwe Boll's filmography of
House of the Dead,
Alone in the Dark, and
Bloodrayne left the foulest of tastes in the mouths of audiences who have seen them. Such movies were so bad that numerous top 10 lists have been made to determine the worst of the worst, like what
WatchMojo and
GameTrailers did for their lists. So why do movies based on video games tend to suck?
