8 Awful Video Game Movies That Got The Most Important Thing Right

1. DOOM - That First-Person Sequence

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Headed up by Dwayne Johnson and Karl Urban, 2005’s long-gestating Doom movie was largely viewed as a major disappointment by many fans of the iconic video game franchise.

The film itself was delivered in a tongue-in-cheek manner than belied the serious and gritty tone so often associated with the Doom property, and the terrors of said gaming series were sadly nowhere to be seen. One redeeming element that was to be seen, however, was in how the movie brilliantly flipped the action on its head in one particular scene.

After Urban’s Grimm gets injected with a strange serum, all of a sudden the camera spins to show things from the first-person perspective of the character. And for the next, glorious five minutes, viewers were treated to a sequence that instantly conjured up memories of their early Doom battles back when the original game was first released in 1993.

As a movie, Doom may have been a generic, flawed actioner of its time – complete with shoddy CGI – but that one sequence alone nearly manages to save the film from being a dud.

"Nearly", being the key word there.

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