Summary

  • The Borderlands movie is out now, and it's not going down well with critics.
  • At the time of writing, it has a staggeringly low zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
  • Critics have slammed it as "unfunny", "vapid", and an "abysmal waste".

The Borderlands movie is off to an awful start. Early impressions yesterday called it "unfunny" and "visually repulsive", but with the movie in cinemas, things are only getting worse. The Rotten Tomatoes page is live and it has debuted at the lowest possible score—zero percent. At the time of writing, every single reviewer loathes this movie.

Original Cin describes it as an "hour-plus of noise and lame wisecracks" that would be "Exhibit Z in the argument that video games don't transfer well cinematically" if not for recent adaptations such as The Last of Us and Fallout.

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IGN scored it just 3 out of 10, calling it an "abysmal waste of a beloved franchise". VG247 went even lower with a one star review, slating the film as a "vapid, creatively bankrupt crime". It's safe to say that Borderlands won't be making the waves that Randy Pitchford hoped for.

Borderlands Couldn't Have Come At A Worse Time

A sentiment across many of these reviews is that Borderlands feels out of place in the modern adaptation landscape. Fallout was an enormous success for Amazon Prime and Bethesda, releasing to rave reviews and even sweeping up 17 Emmy nominations this year. HBO and Naughty Dog's The Last of Us was likewise a critical darling that pushed video game adaptations into the realm of prestige TV, a far cry from the deflating whoopie cushion that is Lionsgate's Borderlands.

Many draw comparisons to Guardians of the Galaxy, albeit without the heart or charm that made James Gunn's trilogy so endearing. "This Eli Roth-directed feature felt as though I was watching [Guardians] minus the work put into making them funny, memorable, dramatically compelling, let alone interesting," We Live Entertainment writes.

JoBlo's Movie Network says that it "is to Guardians of the Galaxy & Fury Road what Solarbabies is to The Road Warrior," a scathing comparison. Although, a quick glance at social media sites like Twitter and Reddit shows that people are excited that there's another bad video game movie on the horizon, like being nostalgic for the era of Uwe Boll. It's out now, so we can see for ourselves if it's as bad as the critics are saying.

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