Face it: game to movie adaptations don't work. They're either way too long and complex that an hour and a half movie doesn't cut it like Final Fantasy, which always need to be long and good 20-40 hours at most, or not enough story so the filmmakers try to make a story out of it like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat. Oddly enough, the latter was made by the director of this film also, Paul Anderson. I actually found myself willingly watching Mortal Kombat rather than it being on superstation and nothing else on. His 2nd adaptation is slightly better but still fun.