Borderlands was a movie that was shoved in my face. I don’t think any real people were particularly excited for it and yet the marketing was rather aggressive. Especially if you went to SDCC, they were all over the place. Now my husband gave me a little insight as he is a huge video game nerd and I am not. Apparently most video game to movie adaptations are truly terrible, and I firmly believe that. This is just another casualty. I saw it so you don’t have to. As far as action movies go this is really the bottom of the barrel. And as far as video game adaptations go, it certainly is one. But that’s about as nice as I can be about this film.
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Borderlands is an incredible waste of time. None of the performances feel believable, they try to have some kind of emotional core but it just isn’t there. The jokes are derivative and unfunny. The visuals look incredibly fake, plastic, and like they spent all of $10 on them. The story is extremely boring and the structure is quite repetitive (that would be the problem with adapting video games as they are by nature repetitive). My recommendation would be to not watch the movie, it is no more than a 3/10, and it’s only points are awarded because I did sit through worse movies this year.
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