This Netflix Horror Movie Is Basically What Would Happen If Jigsaw Had a Video Game — and Critics Got It All Wrong
Critics were unkind to Choose or Die, but it offers a thrilling video game-based premise with plenty of psychological torture at its core.
Video game adaptations are notorious for their poor quality, with only the ones in the past six years or so, like the Sonic the Hedgehog series, achieving any real critical success. Even fans of the original video games themselves often cringe at the attempts to bring a beloved franchise to life on the big screen – which may explain the handful of movies, like Gamer, that instead try to capture the feeling of playing video games in general rather than adapting a specific title.
