“Borderlands” Review

Borderlands: Directed by Eli Roth. With Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramírez, Jamie Lee Curtis. Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.

The internet seems to think that this is the worst movie in the world, but it doesn’t rise to the terrible results of other video game adaptations and has it’s own share of great moments, but at the end of the day it’s not terrible, not great, just mediocre. I think my complaint with it would be the casting and the decision to set it nearly 40 years after the time period of the first video game, but somehow not have any of the events of the games referenced to or occur on the screen. It’s a movie set in a mirror Borderlands universe where the main characters are older and Kevin Hart plays a soldier that’s not all that funny. He’s not even trying to be funny, he’s just playing a soldier, that’s it. One of the funniest guys in Hollywood and they have him playing a bbf to Ariana Greenblatt’s Tiny Tina, who really stole the show but wasn’t given enough to work with to save the film.

Do you need to see it in theaters? no, but I’d suggest checking it out when it hits the FAST channels.

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