I had the pleasure of watching this movie in an early screening on Monday night, and it is definitely a step above and beyond the aforementioned videogames-turned-movies.
Usually, just the action (Doom, Final Fantasy), or just the body (Lara Croft.Tomb Raider) or just some other one aspect makes for a great game, but an underwhelming movie. It isn't often that a video game is so vivid, so involving.so enveloping, that it is looked on as a possible movie franchise on all those merits.
