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MOVIES

Spling investigates.
inspired by video games.
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RESIDENT EVIL

amassed
ed on a video game, having
essful movie series to be bas
ion
Resident Evil is the most succ
4. The video game to live-act
a sixth film slated for 201
Mortal Kombat.
r $600 million worldwide with
ove
who also directed
usted to Paul W.S. Anderson,
movie adaptation was entr
the big
characters made the leap to
Raccoon City and most of the
the films.
The Umbrella Corp, T-virus,
protagonist was created for
smart move, a new series’
en, and in a retrospectively
oozing big screen sex
scre
heroine, Alice,
gh-as-nails and hot-as-hell
Milla Jovovich owns the tou
ing into an art form.
slay
appeal and turning zombie-

Prince of Persia:
The Sands of Time

puzzles
magic potions, do- or-die
Swashbuckling swordplay,
inal Prince of Persia
the orig
and life -like motion made
o
The classic side scrolling vide
revolutionary for its time.
e play improved enough to
and gam
game evolved as graphics
adaptation.
warrant a live -action film
Mummy
ed fairly well and gave The
While the epic tale translat
CGI, the title character
ent and
Returns a run for entertainm
is more
aal’s laidback temperament
seems miscast. Jake Gyllenh
able
while the action is compar
ia and
Aladdin than Prince of Pers
the Caribbean
film’s lofty Pirates of
with a theme park ride, the
never fully materialised.
ambitions

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