Video game movies are hardly anything new in today’s day and
age. We’ve had video game adaptations like Need For Speed and Warcraft,
films centred on video games like Pixels and The Wizard, even films that take
place within a video game like Wreck-It Ralph and Tron. However, even with that
precedent, this film expects to be of a different breed than all of those. This
is a film that incorporates video game tropes as a form of cinematic
storytelling. Now, the success of any video game-related film is rather
sporadic; adaptations are rarely if ever good and films set in and about video
games often just translate into watching others do what we would rather be
doing ourselves. So, with this step into a new direction, how does it fare?
