Movie adaptations of popular video games have largely failed to stick the landing over the years. Some call it a curse. You can trace the critical and box office failures all the way back to 1993's Super Mario Bros. movie, starring Bob Hoskins as Mario and John Leguizamo as Luigi, Nintendo's famous plumbers. With a 28% Rotten Tomatoes score, it remains one of the worst-reviewed video game movies of all-time, though some fans and critics have warmed to it over the years. The Street Fighter movie that came out the following year bombed even harder, landing an 11% critic score on Rotten Tomatoes . (Fortunately, the upcoming Street Fighter movie looks really good ).

Over the years, directors have tried their hands at franchises as wide-ranging as Tomb Raider ,

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