That pretty much describes this movie right down to a T. In that movie, a skinny white boy who's a massive martial arts film buff, finds himself transported to ancient China, where he is forced to learn to be better at martial arts than the actual experts in record time and save the locals from nefarious villains.
This is very much a retread of the Forbidden Kingdom. It's a stupid way to tell it, yes, but that's the story they wanted to tell. Typical, but that's the way they wanted to tell their story.
But you know the drill here, the lead character (who loves video games) is a bullied geek who can't defend himself, a virgin and hasn't kissed a girl yet. I don't really know where I'm going with this or why I started out with this, since the video game stuff comprises, maybe, 10% of the whole movie and maybe even less. It's not like an Assassin's Creed, which adapts an already established story. The only movie you could say that's great is Wreck-it Ralph and that movie is inspired by video games as a whole. In fact, you could argue that man of these movies are absolutely horrid. As far as video game adaptations or movies with video games as part of their plot, let's just say that they haven't yet hit their stride. I've owned so many gaming consoles and bought (or at least my mom bought most of them for me in my youth) so many games that I don't even know what to do with them anymore. They are among my favorite hobbies, if not my favorite one. I believe I have made it clear, in one of my previous reviews, that I've played video games almost my entire life. This will never happen again, until it does. Finally I am able to finish watching the last movie from last week's debacle.
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