Review of Video Games: The Movie (2014) by Anthony P — 29 Aug 2014

I absolutely LOVE video games, and it pains me that I'm giving this such a low score.

The documentary's heart is in the right place. It interviews mostly the right people from the industry, mentions important historic benchmarks, acknowledges that games are an ever-evolving art form that involve groups of talented people just like movies and music, and shows how much games have influenced millions of lives. Not to mention a beautifully design timeline.

Making a documentary of this scale is a massive undertaking, and there is so much ground to cover. The film wants to talk about EVERYTHING from the industry. It starts out fine, but it later implodes itself with too much content becoming a confused and unfocussed mess, overlong, repeating interviews and footage, and talking way too much in the same, stale, nostalgic tone, and doesn't give any insight or analysis of itself.

It's only meant for its target audience. All in all, it's just nostalgia bait. Just go play video games instead.