Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City (2021)

Moments from the games are brought to life and strung together with more concern for perfectly realised game haircuts, weapons, and cosplay outfits than for telling a coherent story, so this reboot, after so many Milla Jovovich movies,  feels like it false-starts right the way through to at least the halfway mark before an unwarranted denouement (a live-action reenactment of that train-carriage bossfight that players of the game will remember).

★☆☆☆☆

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Uncharted (2022)

Tom Holland is a far too baby-faced Nathan Drake, the supposed-to-be manly hero of Naughty Dog's Uncharted game series adapted here for the big screen, and casting Mark Wahlberg, too young and clean-shaven, as the game's Victor "Sully" Sullivan robs the movie of some of the game's emotion given the character is supposed to be a father-like figure in grown-up orphan Nathan's life, but despite this horrible casting, the movie succeeds as an engaging popcorn adventure with moments of great excitement and, for lovers of the series, plenty of nods to the game.

★★★☆☆

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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life (2003)

Nods to the Lara Croft series of computer games — shark punches, motorbike rides along the Great Wall of China, and skimpy silver and gold tomb-raiding outfits — keep this sequel a fanboy's fantasy rather than the female-helmed Indiana Jones-style adventure of wider appeal that the movie could have been, with Lara Croft hunting an orb belonging to Alexander the Great.

★★☆☆☆

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