25 films based on computer games

All popular video games have their own compelling storyline, which inspires filmmakers to create movies based on famous computer games. Sometimes it’s an advertising order from the production company, sometimes it’s a reinterpretation of the book underlying the game, and sometimes it’s a creative attempt to recreate the unique world that a good game immerses gamers in.

We present you the best examples of cinematography, developed on the basis of the most famous computer games. It will be a fascinating journey through the worlds of your favorite adventures.

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Mortal Kombat (film series)

Rating IMDB – 5.8
Genre: Action, fantasy, science fiction
US production / 1995
Budget: $18,000,000
Worldwide gross: $122,195,920
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast: Robin Shaw, Linden Ashby, Bridget Wilson, Christopher Lambert, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Talisa Soto, Trevor Goddard, Chris Casamassa, Francois Petit, Keith Cook

A series of movies and several TV series from the ’90s under the generic title Mortal Kombat are adaptations of the iconic 2D fighting game Mortal Kombat. The arcade and then console game features brutal melee fights between characters with supernatural powers, each with their own motivations and techniques.

In 2021, the franchise got its reboot, a remake of 1995’s Mortal Kombat called Mortal Kombat. The plot matches the world of the game itself. Glavgad Shang Tsung, soul eater, viceroy of the Emperor of the Outer World and cruel sorcerer, announces the start of the Death Battle, for the right to possess the Earth.

The sorcerer Shang Tsung was the prototype of Han, the main antagonist of Bruce Lee’s film Exit the Dragon.

Resident Evil (film series)

Rating IMDB – 6.6
Genre: Horror, action, fantasy
Production USA, Germany / 2002
Budget: $33,000,000
Worldwide gross: $102,984,862
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabias, James Purefoy, Martin Crews, Colin Salmon, Ryan McCluskey, Oscar Pierce, Indra Ove, Anna Bolt

Resident Evil is a major media franchise of the Japanese corporation Capcom. The player controls a character wandering around Raccoon City, destroying zombies and monsters, which appeared due to the development of the T-virus of the Umbrella biocorporation, which the protagonist will have to face in the final.

In 2002, the first film adaptation of the game premiered, with Mila Jovovich playing the role of Alice, whose prototype was Ada Wong from the second Resident. This girl is a biological weapon, a clone of the daughter of the founder of Umbrella, who must fight the monstrous forces of evil created by humans.

In 2021, the first film reboot of the Resident Evil franchise, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, was released where the main characters are the canonical game brother and sister, Chris and Claire Redfield.

The Witcher

Rating IMDB – 8.1
Genre: Fantasy, adventure, drama, horror
Production USA, Poland / 2019
Directed by Alik Sakharov, Stephen Surjik, Charlotte Brandstrom
Cast: Henry Cavill, Freya Allan, Anya Chalotra, Mimi Diveni, Eamon Farren, MyAnna Buring, Wilson Raju-Pujalte, Anna Shaffer, Joey Batey, Royce Pirreson

Strictly speaking, the Witcher series is not based on the world-famous cult game, but is based on Sapkowski’s novels. And so the gleeful anger of the fans of the game, that the Witcher played by Henry Cavill is not scarred enough, and Yennifer, played by Anya Chalotra, is too young and fresh for a centenarian witch, and “dukhobabs” transformed into black Amazon women “not good” – of course, in some respects, fair enough. But the game’s characters are also quite a bit different from their original prototypes.

Meanwhile, Netflix has produced a beautiful, vivid and more international than Sapkovsky’s Slavic saga, an adventure fantasy about a lonely mutant hunter who doesn’t mind befriending the evil he’s meant to hunt, is in love with the ancient witch Yennifer and protects his adopted daughter Qiri.

Actor Henry Cavill actively applied for the role of Heralt, trained with a sword and in the gym, and studied Sapkowski’s books from cover to cover. He was turned down, and then held a casting call for 207 actors, but returned to Cavill.

Warcraft

Rating IMDB – 6.7
Genre: Fantasy, thriller, adventure
Production USA, Canada, China, Japan / 2016
Budget: $160,000,000
Worldwide gross: $439,048,914
Director Duncan Jones
Cast: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, Daniel Wu, Ruth Negga

Warcraft is an epic fantasy film for fans of Blizzard’s famous and most successful project, which the company has long been reluctant to agree to, fearing that a bad movie would make bad publicity for the game.

The planet Azeroth faces a threat – a horde of orcs pouring out of a wormhole portal whose world is dying. If they were just looking for a new home, maybe King Llein would be able to negotiate with the orcs, but they use the magic of the Abomination and devastate the villages.

It soon becomes clear that war is inevitable, and the peaceful races of Azeroth form an Alliance to confront the ruthless Horde.

The plot of the film is based on the books written on the game Birth of the Horde and The Last Guardian.

Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn

Rating IMDB – 6.7
Genre: Fantasy, action, thriller, military
US production / 2012
Budget: $8,500,000
Director Stuart Handler
Cast: Anna Popplewell, Tom Green, Enisha Brewster, Ayelet Zurer, Masam Holden, Mike Dopud, Ian Belcher, Osric Chau, Cat de Liva, Daniel Cudmore

A low-budget independent film based on the hit space shooter Halo 4. Halo as a whole is a huge franchise, including many games, movies, novels, comic books and other entertainment products, about the confrontation between earthlings and violent aliens.

Listening to Cortana’s message, Commander Thomas Lasky recalls his time within the walls of the Military Academy. He was still a young cadet doubting his path, but John 117 inspired him and helped him gain confidence. The film recounts the early years of the war between the Covenant and mankind.

The film was originally conceived as a web series of five 15-minute episodes.

Need for Speed

Rating IMDB – 6.4
Genre: Action, thriller
Production USA, India / 2014
Budget: $66,000,000
Worldwide gross: $203,277,636
Directed by Scott Waugh
Cast: Aaron Paul, Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Dakota Johnson, Michael Keaton, Ramon Rodriguez, Nick Chinlund, Kid Cudi, Rami Malek, Harrison Gilbertson

If you like computer games and car racing, surely the game Need for Speed is on your list of favorite entertainment. The mega-popular racing simulator is a leader in its genre and one of the most financially successful gaming franchises in the history of the industry.

This movie about racing and speed is the story of Toby Marshall, a talented auto mechanic. After his father’s death, he is forced to partner with dishonest rich man Dino Brewster to fix his shop and then goes to jail because of him. Released two years later, Tony dreams of revenge, and to do so he needs to outrun the most desperate guys in the underground races.

This film was the third action film by DreamWorks Pictures, after Peacekeeper and A Special Opinion.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Rating IMDB – 6.6
Genre: Fantasy, thriller, adventure
US production / 2010
Budget: $150,000,000
Worldwide gross: $336,365,676
Director Mike Newell
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley, Alfred Molina, Steve Toussaint, Toby Kebbell, Richard Coyle, Ronald Pickup, Rhys Ritchie, Gisli Orn Gardarsson

Prince of Persia is a game with original gameplay that includes a complex architecture with traps and enemies, through which the central character moves while performing many tricks. This project has been called one of the greatest games of all time.

In 2010, Briton Mike Newell presented the audience with a very beautiful film about the young Prince Dastan (played by Jake Gyllenhaal), who becomes the adopted son of King Shahraman.

But one day the king is killed by his own son Nizam, accusing Dastan of everything, and the latter has to flee Persia to find an ancient artifact, return and restore justice.

Max Payne

Rating IMDB – 5.3
Genre: Action, thriller, drama, crime, adventure
Production USA, Canada / 2008
Budget: $35,000,000
Worldwide gross: $85,416,905
Director John Moore
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Beau Bridges, Ludacris, Chris O’Donnell, Donal Logue, Amaury Nolasco, Kate Burton, Olga Kurylenko, Rothaford Gray

The Finnish computer shooter Max Payne was just asking for a movie adaptation. The magnificent gloom and depressing interiors, the plight of the protagonist and the hostile world around him – a recipe for an excellent noir action movie, which was released in 2008 with Mark Wahlberg in the title role.

The plot, of course, repeats the game adventures of the main character. Not long ago, Max was a happily married police officer with a great reputation. And then his family was killed, and he himself was accused of the crime. Since then, Max has been wandering among the scum of the city and looking for an opportunity for revenge.

Mark Wahlberg admitted that he never played Max Payne because he was afraid of getting addicted to the game.

Silent Hill

Rating IMDB – 6.5
Genre: Horror, detective
Production Canada, France, Japan, USA / 2006
Budget: $50,000,000
Worldwide gross: $97,607,453
Directed by Christophe Hahn
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Jodelle Ferland, Laurie Holden, Sean Bean, Deborah Kara Unger, Kim Coates, Tanya Allen, Alice Kriege, Colleen Williams, Ron Gabriel

It is a rare case where a game adaptation surpasses the original and becomes a work in its own right. This mesmerizing horror film is about unkind people condemning themselves to damnation. About a mother’s love overcoming everything in the world. And about a monstrously frightening ghost town in which, along with the nightmarish spawn of their fears, the fanatics who once offended one little girl are imprisoned forever.

Rose, who has adopted the adorable little girl Sharon, is frightened by her seizures, during which the girl screams and asks to be taken to Silent Hill. To deal with her daughter’s problem, Rose ventures on this journey, which takes her into a creepy, unbelievable world spawned by one child’s hatred.

Most of Silent Hill’s monsters were performed by professional dancers. The film received many nominations for the best horror film award and contradictory reviews from famous critics: from total defeat to the highest admiration.

Sonic the Hedgehog (dilogy)

Rating IMDB – 6.5
Genre: Action, comedy, fantasy, adventure, family
Production USA, Japan, Canada / 2020
Budget: $85,000,000
Worldwide gross: $319,715,683
Director Jeff Fowler
Cast: James Marsden, Ben Schwartz, Natasha Rothwell, Tika Sumpter, Neil McDonough, Adam Pally, Jim Carrey, Lee Majdub, Tom Butler, Frank C. Turner

The charming, speedy Sonic the Hedgehog is a favorite of kids around the world, a game character who saves his planet from the evil Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Sonic first appeared on the Sega console and then conquered many platforms.

In 2020, the first movie of the Sonic the Movie franchise was released, and the next installment came out in 2022. A fusion of realism and animation and an adapted plot in which Sonic finds himself on planet Earth, pursued by a possessed Doctor – a light, bright, non-stressful adventure comedy with Jim Carrey as the evil genius Robotnik was a success, and in 2022 a sequel was released. By the way, Sonic was played by actor Ben Schwartz.

Already announced the third part of the franchise, which will see the light of day in 2024.

DOOM

Rating IMDB – 5.2
Genre: Horror, fantasy, thriller
Production USA, UK, Czech Republic, Germany / 2005
Budget: $60,000,000
Worldwide gross: $55,987,321
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak
Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Karl Urban, Rosamund Pike, Deobia Oparei, Ben Daniels, Razaak Adoti, Richard Brake, Al Weaver, Dexter Fletcher, Brian Steele

Doom is an iconic, iconic, famous horror shooter that has been seen by a couple of generations, and is probably going to live on for a very long time. Fans have been waiting for a movie based on this game since the 90’s, when Software handed over the film rights, but it didn’t work out. As a result, the promised “movie and the Germans” were late, failing at the box office.

Nevertheless, the film with Karl Urban and Dwayne Johnson, a tale of Marines on Mars fighting the unknown stuff, mutants, ancient evil and demons, will probably be of interest to both fans of cool action movies and fans of classic Doom.

Two working models of the BFG9000 were created for the film, and both were kept by Dwayne Johnson.

Pokémon: Detective Pikachu

Rating IMDB – 6.5
Genre: Fiction, fantasy, detective, adventure, family
Production USA, Japan / 2019
Budget: $150,000,000
Worldwide gross: $433,005,346
Director Rob Letterman
Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Gere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Alejandro De Mesa, Rita Ora

The first movie with live actors on the mega-franchise Pokémon, based on the adventure game Detective Pikachu, released in Japan in 2016. The main character is voiced by the famous Deadpool Ryan Reynolds.

Events take place in the Pokemon universe. Young insurance man Tim Goodman, trying to figure out the cause of the death of his father, private investigator Harry, encounters Pikachu in a hat, who claims to have been Harry’s partner, but now suffers from amnesia. Together they continue their investigation, plunging into an exciting adventure with exciting detective mysteries.

The artist who developed the realistic Pokémon style was R. J. Palmer, whose work the filmmakers found on the Internet and did not hesitate to offer him a contract.

Tomb Raider (film series)

Rating IMDB – 6.3
Genre: Fantasy, thriller, action, adventure
Production UK, USA / 2018
Budget: $94,000,000
Worldwide gross: $274,650,803
Directed by Roar Uthaug
Cast: Alicia Vikander, Dominic West, Walton Goggins, Daniel Wu, Kristin Scott Thomas, Derek Jacobi, Alexander Villaume, Tamer Barjag, Adrian Collins, Keenan Errison

These are probably the most famous movies based on computer games. The virtual reality of Lara Croft, a sexy, daring and clever adventurer, is a fascinating one. Angelina Jolie, who played in the original dylogy, was to the liking of the game’s fans. But the 2018 reboot with Alicia Vikander, Tomb Raider fans booed.

Lara Croft is a British aristocrat, the daughter of an archaeologist and a tomb raider, who constantly finds stunning adventures on her head and searches for incredible magical artifacts, pursued by a bunch of villains and villains.

Jolie spent six months taking kickboxing and yoga lessons, learning to handle weapons and training with an elite SWAT team to prepare for her role.

This is one of the best treasure hunt movies ever made.

Assassin’s Creed

Rating IMDB – 5.6
Genre: Fantasy, аction, аdventure
Production USA, France, UK, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malta, Spain, Canada / 2016
Budget: $125,000,000
Worldwide gross: $240,697,856
Directed by Justin Kurzel
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Charlotte Rampling, Michael Kenneth Williams, Denis Menoche, Ariana Labed, Khalid Abdallah, Essie Davis

Assassin’s Creed is a worldwide hit, played by several thousand people right now. In each part, the gamer is immersed in a world filled with fear, dictatorship, secret societies, all with the consideration and reconstruction of the most interesting and mysterious historical facts. Of course, you have to play as a hero, who will deal with evil and unravel all the mysteries, without shrinking from violence.

So, the plot of the movie. The protagonist Callum Lynch, with the help of revolutionary technology, remembers the life of one of his ancestors and realizes that he is the heir to a secret society of assassins. Now Lynch must find his brothers and destroy the dangerous Templars, who bring death to this world.

Almost the entire film was shot without the use of computer graphics. The actors performed many of the stunts themselves.

Monster Hunter

Rating IMDB – 5.2
Genre: Fantasy, thriller, adventure
Production USA, China, Germany, Japan / 2020
Budget: $60,000,000
Worldwide gross: $46,428,176
Directed by Paul W. S. Anderson
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Tony Jah, Ron Perlman, T.I., Diego Boneta, Meagan Good, Josh Helman, Jin O-Yun, Hirona Yamazaki, Yannick Schumann

The hit Japanese game industry of the 21st century is the iconic Monster Hunter series, created in the action RPG genre. The gamer explores a vast, detailed world, hunting a variety of fantastic creatures (that’s where they live!).

The brilliant action game based on the series was released in 2020, starring Mila Jovovich and Tony Jah. The mighty Hunter is busy catching large monsters in his world. Meanwhile, Artemis, a U.S. Army Ranger, is trying to find traces of a group missing here in the desert. A sudden storm takes her to the Hunter’s world, where the girl has her most amazing adventures.

Many scenes for the film were shot in Namibia and South Africa.

Street Fighter

Rating IMDB – 4.0
Genre: Fantasy, action, comedy, adventure
Production Japan, USA / 1994
Budget: $35,000,000
Worldwide gross: $99,423,521
Directed by Steven E. de Souza
Cast: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, Simon Callow, Byron Mann, Roshan Seth, Andrew Bryniarski, Grand L. Bush

The ’90s vogue for adaptations of popular martial arts fighting games did not escape Street Fighter, the second part of which was released as an arcade game and then ported to the Super Nintendo, becoming one of the longest-running bestsellers of the genre. This same second installment was also the basis for the movie Street Fighter, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme.

Van Damme’s character is William Gile, a U.S. Army colonel who, along with his friends, confronts the powerful villain M. Bison, who is gathering an army to take over the world and has taken an entire city hostage.

This movie was almost entirely financed by Capcom, which created the original game.

Hitman

Rating IMDB – 6.2
Genre: Action, thriller, crime
Production France, USA / 2007
Budget: $24,000,000
Worldwide gross: $99,965,792
Directed by Xavier Jeans
Cast: Timothy Olyphant, Dougray Scott, Olga Kurylenko, Robert Knepper, Ulrich Thomsen, Henry Ian Cusick, Michael Offay, Christian Erickson, Eric Ebony, Joe Sheridan

The Hitman series of games is a great entertainment series of stealth action, which continues to be released today on different platforms, in which the player acts as an experienced clone assassin called Agent 47. He can wield any weapon and masterfully use hiding places, carrying out dangerous missions around the world, at the same time brutally destroying dishonest customers.

Actor Timothy Olyphant played the role of Hitman in the 2007 film. In the story, the hitman is tasked to kill Russian President Belikov, and then the client demands to mop up a witness, prostitute Nika. Agent 47 soon realizes that the mafia wants to kill him himself, and to be completely happy he finds out that the FSB and Interpol are following in his footsteps.

In 2020, the film made Maxim magazine’s list of the Most Delusional Films about Russia, taking a respectable 4th place.

DOA: Dead or Alive

Rating IMDB – 4.8
Genre: Action, detective, adventure
Production USA, Germany / 2006
Budget: $30,000,000
Worldwide gross: $7,500,497
Directed by Corey Yuen
Cast: Jamie Pressly, Devon Aoki, Holly Valance, Sarah Carter, Natasha Malte, Kane Kosugi, Matthew Marsden, Eric Roberts, Steve Howey, Brian J. White

A beautiful karate movie based on the popular ’90s fighting game series Dead or Alive. On an exotic island somewhere in the ocean there are fierce fights to which only the best fighters in the world are invited. The tournament is run by Victor Donovan.

The plot centers on three girls who are invited to the tournament. Ninja princess Kasumi leaves her homeland to learn the truth about her brother’s death. Christy is a professional thief who dreams of robbing Victor. Tina is an American wrestler, eager to prove she’s a tough fighter and not just a pretty face. The girls have to take part in fights and uncover Donovan’s true identity.

The actresses had been training for about four months before they started working in the film. According to them, about forty bikinis were ruined in the process of filming.

Wing Commander

Rating IMDB – 4.3
Genre: Fantasy, аction, аdventure
Production Luxembourg, USA / 1999
Budget: $30,000,000
US fees: $11,578,059
Director Chris Roberts
Cast: Freddie Prinze Jr., Saffron Burroughs, Matthew Lillard, Cheky Karyo, Jurgen Prochnow, David Suchet, David Warner, Ginny Holder, Hugh Quarshy, Ken Bones

Another good sci-fi movie based on the computer game of the same name. Fans of Wing Commander can appreciate (and traditionally scold) the wonderful special effects (albeit a bit “retro”), the slightly changed plot and the acting of the actors who embodied the beloved characters of the game.

At the heart of the story is a multi-act play-like action in which Admiral Tolvin makes difficult decisions to repel an attack by the Kilrathi cat-like race on planet Earth. All hope lies on the shoulders of the crew of the ship Tiger’s Claw, which must at all costs delay the alien fleet until the arrival of the main space forces of the Earth…

The creator of the game and the movie is one – the British designer, programmer, and director Chris Roberts. By the way, he is currently working on a new project, Star Citizen.

Double Dragon

Rating IMDB – 3.9
Genre: Fiction, fantasy, action, comedy, adventure
Production USA, France, Denmark / 1994
Budget: $3,500,000
US fees: $2,341,309
Directed by James Yukic
Cast: Robert Patrick, Mark Dacascos, Scott Wolf, Christina Wagner, Julia Nixon-Soul, Alyssa Milano, Nils Allen Stewart, Henry Kingi, John Mallory Asher, Leon Russom

The pixel game Double Dragon is the source of many memes and fanarts. It was wildly popular in the ’90s, being a simple “kill ’em all” arcade game where a martial arts master kills huge piles of criminals with his superfists.

The plot, which was not present in the first part and partially appeared in later versions of the game, was the basis of the movie Double Dragon. Events take place in a post-apocalyptic future, where the cities are scattered with an incredible number of gangsters of all stripes. Lee brothers take on the task of clearing the city of criminals, led by the insidious demon Kogo Shuko

The creators of the film copied a lot of game sprites from the original and tried to pick up similar style and clothes for the actors, but the grumbling fans about the non-canonical characters could not get rid of.

Super Mario Bros.

Rating IMDB – 4.1
Genre: Fiction, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
Production UK, USA, Japan, France / 1993
Budget: $48,000,000
US fees: $20,915,465
Directed by Annabel Jenkel, Rocky Morton
Cast: Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper, Samantha Mathis, Fisher Stevens, Richard Edson, Fiona Shaw, Dana Kaminsky, Mojo Nixon, Gianni Russo

This film is a valuable artifact of world cinema. Based on the famous platformer, it features an original plot that humorously recounts the amusing adventure of two Italian-American plumber brothers, Mario and Luigi, who accidentally discover a passage to another world populated by intelligent descendants of dinosaurs and are forced to save civilization.

The film failed at the box office with an explosive bang, but became a cult film. Critics scolded the film for everything, but it was nominated for two Saturns. Bob Hoskins, who played Mario, said it was the worst role of his career, but his son loved it.

On top of everything else, Super Brothers was listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the first movie based on a computer game.

Pixels

Rating IMDB – 5.6
Genre: Fiction, fantasy, action, comedy
Production USA, China, Canada / 2015
Budget: $88,000,000
Worldwide gross: $244,874,809
Director Chris Columbus
Cast: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, Brian Cox, Matt Lintz, Sean Bean, Jane Krakowski, Dan Aykroyd

A wonderful comedy that offers warm nostalgia to lovers of arcade video games and arcade machines of the 1980s. The movie embodies many beloved characters from the popular arcades of that time, when the process itself was quite simple and extremely exciting, complemented by the gamer’s exuberant imagination.

The film’s backstory is simple: in 1982, a NASA capsule launched into space receives a recording of a championship arcade game. Some distant evil aliens perceive it as a declaration of war, accept the challenge and the rules, and invade Earth in 2015 as video game characters.

By this time, yesterday’s boys, taking part in the old championship, got serious positions (one even became president!) And must save their home planet from the invasion of pixel characters.

This film grew out of Patrick Jean’s original short film of the same name, which you can watch on YouTube.

Uncharted

Rating IMDB – 6.3
Genre: Adventure, аction
Production Spain, USA / 2022
Budget: $120,000,000
Worldwide gross: $401,748,820
Directed by Ruben Fleischer
Cast: Tom Holland, Mark Wahlberg, Antonio Banderas, Sofia Ali, Tati Gabriel, Stephen Waddington, Pingy Moli, Tiernan Jones, Rudy Pankow, Jesus Evita

When choosing a good, modern action-adventure film, the viewer often stumbles upon the high-quality and spectacular Uncharted. And often they don’t even know that it is based on the award-winning Uncharted computer game series (for PlayStation consoles), which is popular all over the world.

Nathan and Sam Drake have been fascinated by stories of treasure and adventure since childhood. And then one day as an adult Nathan gets a chance to go on a real exciting journey in search of the gold of Magellan, and at the same time with the hope to find his brother who disappeared many years ago.

Uncharted is the fifth highest-grossing video game movie at the box office.

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within

Rating IMDB – 6.4
Genre: Anime, cartoon, fantasy, action
Production USA, Japan / 2001
Budget: $137,000,000
Worldwide gross: $85,131,830
Directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, Moto Sakakibara
Cast: Ming-Na Wen, Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Steve Buscemi, Peri Gilpin, Donald Sutherland, James Woods, Keith David, Gene Simmons, Matt McKenzie

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within is a realistic sci-fi animation based on the legendary Final Fantasy game series, created by Square Pictures Film Studios. The story traditionally weaves together natural magic, an alien threat, and the most advanced human technology.

In 2065, a meteorite falls to Earth, containing invisible “phantoms” that infect and kill people. Humanity is evacuated to orbit and begins to develop weapons against the deadly guests.

Scientist Aki Ross, infected by the phantom, searches the planet for sources of special spiritual energy needed to create weapons. She is watched over by a military man in love with her, Gray Edwards, who is ready to end Aki’s torment without hesitation if the phantom overcomes her consciousness.

Unfortunately, the film was a box-office flop, but it earned high ratings later on and remains one of the best examples of computer animation.

Tekken

Rating IMDB – 4.8
Genre: Fantasy, action, thriller, drama, crime
Production USA, Japan / 2009
Budget: $30,000,000
Worldwide gross: $967,369
Directed by Dwight H. Little
Cast: Jon Fu, Kelly Overton, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Ian Anthony Dale, Kung Le, Darrin Dewitt Henson, Luke Goss, Marcai Monroe, Tamlyn Tomita, Candice Hillebrand

The famous fighting game from the equally famous Japanese company Namco for the PlayStation is an iconic series, the interest in which has not waned even today. In fact, Iron Fist is the main competitor to Mortal Kombat, with a similar setting and story about a drawn-out tournament of fights.

The year 2009 saw the release of Tekken, a fantastic martial arts action film. Events are set in a post-apocalyptic world, where the territory of the former USA is owned by the powerful Tekken Corporation, which once a year holds the Iron Fist Tournament with a huge prize fund.

Tekken’s main fighter is the invincible Heihachi Mishima. Slumdog Jin Kazama signs up for the show to defeat Mishima, his mother’s killer.