Best of a very poor bunch

Rating: 6/10 (31 August 2014)

(56%) Unlike Super Mario bros, Street fighter, Doom, most of the Resident evil series, well pretty much every video game movie, this at least has some real connection with its source materiel. And although I'm no fan of the game, the tone, visuals, monsters, concepts all have the spooky feel that made the game a hit. The movie though is a bit forgettable and over-long, and the overuse of CGI monsters and general effects is a little excessive which takes away from the quite intense and really quite scary scenes. As a horror this is a decent spook show, and as a video game movie it's really quite good, maybe even the best of the lot, although with that said the competition overall is less than impressive.