This film restores some amount of respectability back in H'wood after what some of the others who've achieved cult status in the gaming world like Hitman, Doom or Max Payne had to go through in the big screen. Regular viewers might enjoy this ride though gaming fans like myself would find this outing just so-so.
Video game movies are funny business. Most of them are horrible, and yet the cultural consciousness they share is so huge that they can't help making more. The problem, obviously, is that video games revel in giving the player a sense of being a character, thereby reducing the main video game characters thin enough to project on. That is a problem when you try and make a literal translation - like the newest Prince Of Persia film that tries hard enough and yet falls short.
It's a tad tedious and quite silly - even though the overall intent is to create a Pirates Of The Caribbean ....