The harshest reviews of video game film adaptations

Critics are slamming the film adaptation of the video game Borderlands, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart and Jack Black.

Directed by Eli Roth, Borderlands It is an adaptation of the Borderlands video game series that began in 2009. The film stars Blanchett as Lilith, a mysterious bounty hunter who reluctantly returns to her home planet of Pandora after a powerful space baron, Atlas (Edgar Ramirez), pays her a huge sum to locate his missing daughter.

Upon her return to Pandora, Lilith changes course and searches for a legendary vault filled with treasure with a group of new allies, including a mercenary, Roland (Hart), a pre-teen demolitionist named Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt) and her bodyguard Krieg (Florian Munteanu).

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Lilith is also accompanied on her quest by a wisecracking robot named Claptrap (voiced by Black) and an old ally, Tannis (Curtis), who is a scientist and archaeologist.

The film was screened in previews on Thursday night and it wasn’t long before critics were bombarding it. Borderlands with bad reviews.

Starting Thursday, Rotten tomatoes Critics collectively gave the big-budget film a 6% “rotten” rating based on 48 reviews.

He RO The critics’ consensus says: “Failures in all departments, Borderlands It’s nonsense.” The spectators in Actually, However, he gave the film a 52% “rotten” rating based on over 50 verified user ratings.

What did individual critics say about ‘Borderlands’?

Several of the best Rotten tomatoes Criticism weighed on Borderlands and praise for the film was almost non-existent.

In his summary of the film, Toronto Star Critic Peter Howell writes: “There are still plenty of bad movies left before the year is out. But this sci-fi flick mixes inept direction, a terrible script, mediocre acting and disastrous computer-generated special effects into a dullness so overwhelming that it seems nothing could top it for badness.”

Basically saying that the movie is not for anyone, Rolling Stone Critic David Fear writes: “It’s not a film for critics, as the saying goes. Nor is it suitable for consumption by most gamers, movie lovers, or the 99 percent of carbon-based life forms.”

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In his review of the film, The Daily Beast Critic Nick Schager brought the controversial showbiz topic of artificial intelligence into his review of Borderlandswriting: “So sadly routine and sloppy that even an AI would consider it too plagiarized.”

In a warning to potential members of the game’s gaming audience, Barry Hertz of the The Globe and Mail newspaper of the United Kingdom He writes: “Tonally messy, narratively deficient, and plagued by overlapping narration that reeks of creative indecision, the film is an embarrassing affair for even the most hardcore gamers.”

Meanwhile, the The London Evening Standard newspaper Critic Vicky Jessop doesn’t mince her words in her review, writing: “Is it Borderlands Worst movie of the year? It’s definitely in the mix. It’s so laughably bad, in fact, that it feels like we’ve been catapulted back to a time when video game adaptations were synonymous with mediocrity.

To make matters worse, Deadline projects that Borderlands—which will be distributed by Lionsgate—will only gross $15 million in its opening weekend. The film, Deadline He added, it had a production budget of $120 to $130 million, with an additional $30 million spent on print and advertising costs.

Rated PG-13, Borderlands It opens on Friday in theaters across the country.

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