Why Video Game Movies Still Have a Future
It is fair to say that video game adaptations on the big screen have mostly (if not all) been failures. They have gained a notorious reputation for being poor of quality. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is the highest grossing video game adaptation of all time, yet still received mostly negative feedback with an aggregate rating of 36% on Rotten Tomatoes. In present day, the situation doesn’t seem to be improving, with Hitman: Agent 47’s release this year being criticised as one of the worst video game adaptions of all time, despite gaining a box office income of $41 million (albeit only managing a profit of $6 million). Despite these bleak examples, there is still reason to be optimistic about the future of video game adaptations in cinema.
