Until recently, most video game-based films or TV shows were so poorly received that even avid gamers like myself experienced a fit of the eye-rolls at the mention of any new adaptations. Please, not again.
There were some exceptions. Some of the films are genuinely enjoyable - the bonkers 1993 Super Mario Bros, which lead actor Bob Hoskins described as a “nightmare”, springs to mind – while others, like Paul W.S. Anderson’s totally illogical but thoroughly entertaining Resident Evil films, are so bad that they’re good, the stuff that great drinking games or first dates are made of.
