Official Trailer
Our Review
- Ariana Greenblatt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black
- August 8th 2024
- Eli Roth
Eli Roth has brought the whacky world of the Borderlands video game franchise to the big screen.
In the past a film having a video game as source material meant it was generally guaranteed to be terrible.
However, as games have become more narratively sophisticated and CGI has merged the two mediums’ visual language the quality of game adaptations has lifted considerably.
Sadly, Eli Roth’s Borderlands, based on the cult sci-fi shoot-em-up series is a return to the bad old days of substandard fare.
True to its source, Borderlands follows a motley crew of misfits on a quest on the planet Pandora.
Unlike Avatar‘s lush world of the same name, this is a harsh wasteland, left to rot after the fall of the advanced Eridian civilisation.
Myth dictates that somewhere on the planet is a mysterious Eridian “vault” containing an unknown power thousands of “vault hunters” have failed to locate and unlock by finding “keys”.
On this world are tearaway teen Tina (Ariana Greenblatt),...
