Borderlands (2024)

Borderlands is a video game adaptation of the game of the same name set in the stylized futuristic world of Pandora.

Eli Roth is a director who looks like the ideal director for the film. The problem was he wasn't given full reigns to take this sort of movie to the heights it could have been. Casting was an issue and it being restricted to PG-13 was another. Roth is a visionary and the film shows it. The CG could have been left in the oven a tad longer but the glaring issue was the screenplay by the unknown and pen-named Joe Crombie.

The whole cast feels misplaced. Cate Blanchett looks tired, Kevin Hart looks like he's just ready for it to be over, Jack Black as Claptrap is written as annoying, Jamie Lee Curtis didn't even need to be in the film, and Edgar Ramirez tries to play a villain but his accent is just hard to understand. The only exception was seventeen-year-old Ariana Greenblatt who does an annoying but decent job as Tiny Tina. You might remember her from Barbie. Something is wrong when Cate Blanchett gets upstaged by a teenager.

It was okay, and I could see why audiences skipped the film. Result: C+

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