10 Greatest Video Game Movies Of All-Time

That's right! They made a movie based on the Ace Attorney video game series, and - believe it or not - it's actually pretty watchable.

That might come as less of a shock when I tell you that this nutty flick was helmed by the great Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike, best known for his films Ichi the Killer and the horror classic Audition. Whilst Ace Attorney isn't anywhere close to the standard of those films, it's still an admirable film adaptation of a video game about a defence attorney named "Phoenix Wright."

Not to resort to cliches, but this movie is very Japanese. Like, as soon as you see a clip from it, you know where it's from. Thing is, Ace Attorney succeeds on the basis that it's happy to be balls-to-the-wall crazy. Miike doesn't try to build anything serious from the source material - instead, he renders something far more insane than anything glimpsed in pixel form. It shouldn't have worked, but it does.

The plot follows Phoenix Wright as he takes on a series of cases that hark back to a mysterious incident that occurred years ago, but this isn't a film that you watch for its plot: it's essentially an anime cartoon rendered as a live-action flick (notice how nobody in this movie has a regular haircut).

It's no masterpiece, but it's a fun yarn; heads and tails above most movies claiming to be video game adaptations (though the 135 minute length is silly).