It's one of those weird things where you slowly lose your will to live. These movies started when I was a kid and I couldn't understand they used games with no story whatsoever and tried to get a story out of it. It's rather obvious now, of course.
You know, I may remember it wrong, but I was sure at some point creators in general had something like artistic vision. If nothing else, video game movies cured me of that particular misunderstanding, so that's nice.
Then again, these days everything is either a comic book adaptation, an uninspired sequel or a gritty reboot (I think at this point the Spider-Man movies might actually be all of the above), so it's not as if video game movies are some sick outlier in a sea of artistic quality.
Anyways, specifics ..
Super Mario Bros
Artistic liberties and everything, but why make a movie that barely has any connection to the source material? In the wake of the movie a friend of mine did a playthrough of Super Mario Land (yes, Land) 2 with a self-imposed permadeath challenge while blasting Roxette's Almost Unreal on repeat. That had more dramatic impact than the movie.
Double Dragon
The game is purely beating people up in back alleys. With crowbars and baseball bats. The movie is PG-13. Robert Patrick pisses all over this with his performance and rightly so. The mailman is amazing. But this just isn't good and the fact that Bimmy couldn't fight his way out of a wet paper bag doesn't exactly help.
Street Fighter
Fun fact: the guy they got to play Sagat is 1.78m tall.
Look, Arvydas Sabonis is 2.21m, just get that guy in and shave his head. I know he's not an actor, but the role barely had any screen time to begin with and you've already put Kylie Minogue in as the female lead, so let's face it: the movie is already ruined, let's at least give us the option to pretend you actually know what Street Fighter is.
Mortal Kombat
Why do people like this one? This is horrible. It's not even a real tournament, what the hell are you doing?
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
I know I've watched this. I can't remember anything. This might be a good thing.
Resident Evil Series
These are actually fun. They are not good, which is partially why they're fun. Look, these movies are absolute bollocks, but that's part of the charme, because at the very least they're not cynical money grabs designed to cram in every single character from a fighting game to tick all the boxes. No, someone here had a vision. A horrible vision, granted, but I take an overenthused fanfic over a 90 minute commercial any day.
What I'm trying to say here is: Resident Evil is the greatest franchise in cinema history.
Alone in the Dark
If you'd like to develop a drinking problem, but can't stand the taste of alcohol, this film is a must watch.
Silent Hill
Okay, this one confused me and I'm curious about different opinions. It seems like critical response here was generally not that favourable, but personally I thought this one was quite solid. Finally someone picked a game with actual story/themes and to my mind captured the basic feel and atmosphere of the games rather well. Visuals were on point and I vaguely remember the plot not being horrible, while not being a direct 1:1 rehash of the games, yet still staying thematically faithful. Apparently I'm wrong, but I thought this was a comparatively decent movie.