Video games in Hollywood are shielded in a massive order somewhere from the beginning of the nineties - and, surprisingly, can not remove anything that really liked both critics and spectators. Films on games very rarely collect a good cashier, much more often - falling at the box office (or with a creak "beat" the budget abroad), and criticism compete in who Poland the film with mud is witty. Meanwhile, in the genre of video decrements, video games come across and really good things - of course, if we treat them with a certain fraction of humor.
Mortal battle
Mortal Kombat - a cult series of fights, games in which was initially a minimum of the plot, and the whole point came down to fights with rivals. It is not surprising that the "fatal battle" can not boast of special plot delights. In 2018, it is possible to watch the "deadly battle" in the event that all the time remember that it was the 90s, we had fun as they could have painted special effects on the knee and knew how to enjoy action, pathetic replicas "good guys", comedy Moments (thanks to Johnny Cage) and Christopher Lambert, whose charm of God and the bra had envied.
Series "Resident Evil" A series of Resident Evil on the games removed the same floor of W. S. Anderson, that in the nineties stuck her hand on the "deadly battle". Six films with wonderful Milli Yovovich total earned $ 1.23 billion (!), Although their production accounted for an average of a very modest 40-60 million. In other words, although the critics "the abode of evil" diligently threatened, it was she who remains the most cash series of films filmed on video games. Varcraft. A very ambitious project of Legendary Pictures and Universal Studios cost 160 million dollars (and this is excluding expenses for an extensive advertising campaign), in the rental, risked fails, and saved "Varcraft", in fact, only China, where the picture gathered almost half the cash register, 213 million dollars from 433 common. Critics, of course, the film defeated, there is nothing new here, but he mostly liked the original Universe of WORLD OF WARCRAFT (and after all, the sign of the canon is the most picky critics). Perhaps "Varcraft" would have turned out much better if the sponsors were not intervened in the process of writing the script and filming - the director and the author of the very scenario Duncan Jones in the end had to be taped between all interested parties. Lara Croft: Tomb Rank The very film and the same heroine, from a comparison with which Alicia Vicander, unfortunately, do not leave, despite numerous assurances of the creators of the new Lara Croft in the fact that the two versions are not connected in any way and are generally based on different generations of games. The first Lara Croft showed himself well in the box office and in general, even if you leave behind the brackets the fact that the film was based on the video game, is as good action. The only really significant minus - "cardboard" characters of the second plan, including the hero of the future star Bondian Daniel Craig, who is forgotten immediately after viewing. Not surprisingly, Angelina Jolie and her heroine are especially shining on such a fairly gray background. Max Pan. If for a moment you forget that "Max Payne" is removed on the cult series of games, then you can get enough pleasure from viewing - just like a strong middle journey militant with Mark Wahlberg in the lead role. If you start searching in a certain point in what is happening on the screen, the film (and maybe Mark) will end immediately for you. Action Scenes in Payne is especially good (thanks, again, a specialist in this case, Mark Wahlberg), and, probably, it was for the fact that Max Payne still did not fail (85 million dollars of fees at 35 million budget). Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Everything is good at Prince Persia - the most beautiful visual series (thanks to the budget of 200 million dollars - for the almost the same amount, for comparison, Joss Widon shot "Avengers"), chemistry between the main characters performed by Jake Gillanhol and Gemma Arthon, wonderful Ben Kingsley. The creators committed only one tiny, insignificant, well, a very nonsense mistake ... scored white actors in the film, the action in which unfolds in Persia (modern Iran), and ignored the actors of Eastern appearance. The result is the charges of "whitening" caste, a squall of critics, a failure at the box office, sad, but completely typical history for Hollywood, which in a few years just repeated, for example, "ghost in armor". Silent Hill In our opinion, the screening "Silent Hill" did not deserve failure in the box office, although what seems to us not quite evident disadvantage (sufficiently strong differences from the canon of games), the fans of the original gaming series was frankly. However, in the main "Silent Hill" perfectly follows the covenants of the original - the film is frightening, a creepy, pressing on the psyche, nervous people to watch it is better not worth it, and even the owners of strong nerves in a pair of moments will not be ashamed to close their eyes and ears. And there is Sean Bin. But this is not a spoiler. 
