Resident Evil and More: Top 5 Video Game Movies

In the next few months we have two movies coming out that are based off of two popular survival horror games.  The first being Resident Evil Retribution based off of the Capcom game series Resident Evil while the other is Silent Hill Revelation based off of Konami’s Silent Hill.  In terms of presentation, these two films couldn’t be more different.  While the Resident Evil movie series is a mish-mash of random elements from the franchise thrown together in a slightly cheesy, incoherent mess, the Silent Hill series seems to pull heavily from the storylines of the games themselves with their own unique twists.  Each one seems enjoyable in their own way and while one has already reached a level of success that has garnered five movies, the other seems to want to take the crown for Best Video Game Movie.But these games are far from being the first to transition to the big screen and though there have been some successes, none of them has been fully embraced by the majority of gamers as a truly great adaptation.  Not to say there haven’t been good ones, but none have reached “great” status, at least to me, so I figured I’d make a list of the Top 5 Video Game Movies.