Summary

• Movie adaptations of video games often fall short due to poor adherence to game lore and unappealing storylines.
• High-profile casts and successful game franchises do not guarantee box office success for video game movies.
• Poor special effects and lack of attention to source material contribute to the failure of many video game movie adaptations.

Video games and movies are a connection that has been seen a lot throughout the years. There have been a lot of movie adaptations of video games, yet surprisingly, they don't usually work out the way you would expect them to. Most of these movies rarely exceed expectations at the box office, and many of them end up flopping more often than not.

There are many reasons for these movies not performing well, from not sticking to the game's lore, which makes the core fans angry, to not being enticing enough for casual moviegoers to be excited about. Whatever their reasons, we will list down some of the biggest video game movie flops we have ever seen.

10 ꧒ Borderlands

• Released: 2024

The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Borderlands movie is one of the biggest video game movie flops of recent times. With a budget of $115 million, it made less than $10 million on its opening weekend in the US, which isn't surprising given its critical reception.

There were a lot of expectations of this movie due to its star cast consisting of famous personalities such asಌ Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, as well as the popularity of the Borderlands games, but it failed to match these expectations by any means due to a mix of bad CGI and a poor story that barely follows the game at all.

9 ♕ Alone in the Dark ﷺ

• Released: 2005

Alone in the Dark is not only one of the worst video game adaptations but also one of the critically worst-rated movies of all time. The whole movie is just a mess in a lot of ways, with many characters, all of whom are barely introduced properly. The pacing and plot are also very weird, and it honestly makes it hard to understand what's going on at most times.

It also doesn't feel like a horror movie at all, with there being no sense of doom at any time, and the scary scenes coming off more like comedy. This is in complete contrast to the original game released in 1992, which was one of the pioneers of the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:horror game genre.

8 Mortal Kombꦗat: Annihilation

• Released: 1997

Although Mortal Kombat: Annihilation didn't perform horribly at the box office, there is no doubt that it is one of the worst video game movies ever created. This was a sequel to the original 1995 movie, and it somehow managed to do even worse, in terms of its special effects, fight scenes, and almost everything else as well.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Mortal Kombat series is one of the most iconic fighting games of all time and this movie managed to dis🌊appoint most of its fans across the globe. The failure of this movie was also one of the main reasons we never got to see this series come to a proper conclusion and the whole franchise was ultimately rebooted in 2021.

7 Wing Comm🅠ander ♈

• Released: 1999

The Wing Commander games were quite ahead of their time in their portrayal of space simulation gameplay, which made the low quality of the movie feel even worse. Although the storyline of the movie is not too bad, it's its special effects that really let it down.

Some of the most iconic characters from the games, such as the Kilrathi, also look completely different in the movie, which didn't go down too well with fans. The spaceships and combat also look very low-budget, and considering movies such as The Phantom Menace came out just a couple of months after it, there's no reasonable excuse for the space sequences being so bad.

6 Far Cry

• Released: 2008

Far Cry is probably the perfect video game to turn into a movie, so the fact that this adaptation did so badly is kinda upsetting. Its box office performance wa🌺s very poor, and it made less than a million dollars on a budget of $30 ൲million, which tells you all you need to know about it.

The action, which you would expect to be the best part of a Far Cry movie, is very disappointing and doesn't even come close to the thrill you would get from playing the game itself.

5 The House of t💧he Dead

• Released: 2003

The House of the Dead is a series of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:horror shooter arcade games from the 90s and its movie adaptation is one of the worst things we have ever seen. It's not even one of those movies that is so bad that it is good, it is just plain awful, and watching it feels like a chore, which explains the reason for its bombing at the box office.

Just some of the things wrong with this movie include its bad acting and even worse dialogue, a nonsensical plot, and the pathetic excuse for zombies who aren't scary or realistic at all.

4 Doom

• Released: 2005

Although it is one of the more successful movies on this list, there is no doubt that Doom (2005) was a big flop at the box office, and didn't even gross back its budget of $60 million. The movie's cast, consisting of famous actors such as Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson, doesn't do a bad job at all, but the movie's lack of implementation of the source material is what lets it down.

While Doom the game doesn't exactly consist of a fully-fleshed out storyline, there are still a lot of things the movie gets wrong in terms of its plot, and the fact that there are no proper gore scenes, which is what the game is known for, is also a huge let-down for fans.

3 Bloodraynไe

• Released: 2005

Based on the third-person vampire game, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bloodrayne, the movie was released in 2005 and disappointed fans and critics. The movie didn't even end up grossing a quarter of its $25 million budget and was a complete flop at the box office.

From its acting to its costume design, which doesn't even resemble the actual game, there are a lot of things wrong with this movie that would take hours to describe. Sadly, its bad perfor🙈mance was also one of the reasons for the game dyಌing down as well.

2 🀅 Double🅠 Dragon

• Released: 1994

Unlike some other movies on this list, Double Dragon the movie is so bad that it ends up working as a comedy film. This movie does stick to the script of the game in a few regards, such as its setting, but the overall product is just not good, and from its weird character designs to its bad acting, it doesn't work at all.

Double Dragon, the game, is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:all about action, which is quite ironic as most of the fighting scenes in the movie come across as hilarious as it is obvious that the actors aren't the most well-trained in any form of combat.

1 Tekken

• Released: 2010

As you can probably tell by now, fighting games don't tend to do too well in the form of movies and Tekken is the prime example of that. With an 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:already fleshed-out universe consisting of so many interesting characters, and a large fanbase, there is no reason that the Tekken movie shouldn't have been a hit, yet it ended up sadly performing way below par at the box office as well as critically.

The plot of the movie tries to take the story from the first three games and rewrite it in its own way, but it is missing the charm that makes the games so good. But what makes this movie even worse is that its characters aren't good enough and that they lack all the personality that they possess in-game.