5 Video Games You Didn't Know Had Movies

That right, one of the biggest fighting game franchises of all time went Hollywood to get itself turned into a live-action move. Coming out in 2009, the Tekken movie sort of came an went without much mention.

Katsuhiro Harada, producer of the Tekken video game series, criticized the film saying  "That Hollywood movie is terrible. We were not able to supervise that movie; it was a cruel contract. I'm not interested in that movie."

To be fair, when Harada promised an computer animated take on Tekken that was true to the series, he also dropped the ball with an insane mess of a movie. The live-action film, while panned, is still the best of the bunch and even managed to get itself a sequel that was pure garbage.

While the film wasn't great from a story or acting perspective (this isn't Shakespeare), the fight scenes were fantastic. And credit where credit is due, the film kept the fights to a ring and had a plot that, at the very least, included an actual fighting tournament.

Verdict: Watch this one for the neat fights.

The Wing Commander series is very close to my heart, playing them in my early PC days, and even getting a 3DO to be able to play the versions that came out for that hunk of junk. So when I heard a film on the series was being made with the original series creator on writing and directing duties, I was ecstatic.

So it's a shame that the one video game film that should have worked was utter garbage. Hollywood isn't kind, but I still have no idea why Chris Roberts, the creator of the series and the director made so many stupid changes.

Wing Commander is a dumb film. I mean, depth charges in space? Keeping everyone quiet so the enemy sub, err, spaceship can't hear you? Everything was a failure. And the fact they didn't use the all-star cast from he games is a travesty.

The films miscast star Freddy Prinze Jr. Prinze stated that "I can't stand Wing Commander. I can't watch one scene of that movie... I read the script and loved it. So did my buddy Matthew Lillard. We both got the parts. We went on location and they said, "Here's the new script." It was a piece of shit."

Verdict: Play any of the CD based video games for something better.

Probably the best know film on this list, it was also a major disaster for Disney. Look, I adore Jake Gyllenhaal, but I don't anyone for a second can suspend their disbelief and see anyone with the last name Gyllenhaal as being from the Middle East.

Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time was also during the lazy era of Sir Ben Kingsley's career when he took roles in just about anything that was handed to him. The movie itself was a lot of fun if you're going into to for lots of huge set-pieces and a summer popcorn type film, but outside of that it was pretty ho-hum in terms of substance.

Disney had bet big on the film and hoped it would become the new Pirates of the Caribbean, but since Disney has tired to pretty much hide they were ever involved with it says a lot about how that turned out.

Verdict: Watchable

The Far Cry series has always been a popular one, but with each game in the series being totally different the idea of a movie seems hard to swallow. But, hey, money is money and Ubisoft had no idea if the game would be more than a one-off at the time.

The original Far Cry was a technical marvel and forced so many of us to upgrade our machines just to be able to play it. A game like that doesn't come around all that often. You can consider it the Crysis of its time.

I'm ignoring talking about the film adaptation because it's a pile of hot garbage. Directed by Uwe Boll, the man that bilked the German government out of millions to play pretend movie director, the film is painful from beginning to end.

It's painfully low-budget and offers nothing to fans of the game or fans of movies. Hell, I'm pretty sure it never even came to theaters in the United States. Far Cry 5 released a live-action short film ahead of its release that is leaps and bounds above this so-called film.

Verdict: Please don't watch this

Double Dragon isn't a major franchise anymore outside the random download only title that's there to pull at those nostalgia strings and wallets. But back in the day it was one of the biggest AAA games around and helped to essentially kick off the movie video game thing.

It also started the trend of these films being utter garbage, and this is coming from a fan of the games that saw the movie as a child. Heck, the terrible cartoon was a lot more fun than the movie and at least came with neat toys.

Video game movies are created to provide set pieces and nothing else. In the games Billy and Jimmy are twin brothers, yet in the film they aren't even the same age, let alone look the same. It also took place in a weird post apocalyptic future of 2007!

But it's not all bad as Alyssa Milano was in the film and that's never a bad thing. And while you'd expect everyone that worked on this film to be laughed off the face of the earth, one of the screenwriters went on to work on Breaking Bad and later co-create Better Call Saul.

Verdict: Good for a night of laughs