For a long time, it was rare for a live-action video game film or TV adaptation to hit with the public, but that’s been changing in recent years thanks to critical and/or commercial successes like Sonic the Hedgehog , Five Nights at Freddy’s , The Last of Us and Twisted Metal . 2023 was certainly one of the best years for video game movies and TV shows ever, but if you were hoping for the 2024 movie Borderlands to help keep this streak going, you’ll be sorely disappointed. The R-rated adaptation of the popular video game series from Gearbox Software and 2K is being with a wave of negative critical reception ahead of its wide release, which includes someone calling the movie a “visually repulsive dud.
” That first comment comes from @AdriCaporusso , who also called Borderlands a “disaster” and said that there’s absolutely no positive element to enjoy in the movie: BORDERLANDS is a disaster. Filled with every cliché you can ponder, this film swaps the mayhem and imagination of the games for a lifeless, unfunny, and visually repulsive dud with annoying characters and a cast with not one ounce of chemistry. @SmatthewAF echoed those sentiments, saying that he went in hoping for the best, but was profoundly disappointed by the entirety of Borderlands : Oh hey I can tell you I’ve seen #BorderlandsMovie now and that it’s really bad.
I really wanted to like it, but an uninspired plot + several phoned in performances + being stuck in a weird place where it looks bo.