Good video game movies are as hard to find as a decent TV in a skip. There just aren’t that many of them and the few that are ‘good’ are more stupid fun than solid filmmaking, but I’ll take stupid fun over bland failed attempts any day. Just look at the camp ‘90s Mortal Kombats or the more recent Sonic 2, and how they lean into the hamminess of their villains. Those two understand that games aren’t completely serious cinematic spectacles and instead embrace the quirks, something that Yakuza did best of all.
