2018’s Tomb Raider tops a U.K. survey examining which video game movie adaptations are gamers’ favorites
A new survey finds that 2018’s Tomb Raider is the United Kingdom’s favorite video game movie.
The survey, which was conducted by Compare The Market, sampled 1,001 adults in the U.K. who had previous experience with both “playing video games and watching movies.” 33.2 percent of respondents chose Roar Uthaug’s film interpretation of the long-running action-adventure Tomb Raider franchise as being among their favorites. Further illustrating the Tomb Raider love, 19.5 percent of voters offered praise for 2001’s Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, resulting in the Angelina Jolie-starring film coming in third place.
2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog, which was directed by Jeff Fowler and stars Ben Schwartz as the titular character, was ranked as the U.K.’s second favorite video game movie with 29.5 percent of votes. The other films that cracked the top ten list…