Is it possible to have a live action rendition of a popular video game and it still be good? Let’s recap some of the contenders:

1. The Wizard- featured Fred Savage when he was still marketable as the friend of a Super Mario Bros wiz kid. Shameless marketing of the Nintendo platform…wasn’t supposed to be good, but was supposed to cement Nintendo as the premier game system…which it did (Atari and Caleco would’ve looked silly trying to do a live action version of Frogger or Pac Man).
2. Mario Bro’s- Fetaured Bob Hoskins of Roger Rabbit fame and a young John Leguizamo as Mario and Luigi respectively. Poor movie, poor box office returns.
3. Double Dragon- No comment.
4. Mortal Kombat I & II- Big budget spin of the popular video game. Script sucked, but the action was decent. The strongest point in the movie was the costumes. Them joints were dope. The most offensive point of the movies was making the only Chinese (thunder) god, Raiden, white. Hollywood and it’s ego, boy.
5. Resident Evil- Critics didn’t give this joint any real love, but it obviously was good enough to sanction a sequel which will be coming out early next year.
6. House of the Dead- I heard this joint was garbage, by somebody who liked Jeepers Creepers. I think it had to have been pretty bad, then…