It actually was surprisingly good for a video game movie

Rating: 8/10 (24 April 2006)

I went in anticipating a bad film, even though I loved the games, and was pleasantly surprised that the movie actually had a decent plot and fairly good special effects. It captures the mood of the games well, though it probably makes more sense to people who have played the games than to those who have not. The other thing that impressed me was the level of tension held throughout--I actually frequently felt uncomfortable while watching this film, not because of anything actually on the screen, but because the atmosphere and acting carried well enough to make me nervous. On the video game movie scale, with the highest being Tomb Raider and the lowest House of the Dead, I'd put this more on the Tomb Raider end, though it wasn't quite that good.