Video game movies are an often dissatisfying strain of cinematic storytelling. For whatever reason, adaptations of works from the realm of Steam Decks and Atari Jaguars come up short creatively.
"Wildly deficient." "Headache-inducing." "A movie from hell." "Gives birth to an entirely new kind of idiot." That’s how critics in 1993 described "Super Mario Bros.," the first major motion picture ...