The reviews for Eli Roth’sBorderlandsadaptation are in, and surprise! It’s no good.
Initially announced back in 2015, theBorderlandsfilm has been through a few different revisions and a couple of delays during its nine years in production.
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Leigh Whannell, the writer of the originalSawand all threeInsidiousfilms (as well as director on two criminally overlooked films,Upgradeand 2020’sThe Invisible Man), was originally attached to both write and direct the film until he was unceremoniously dropped somewhere along the way.
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As a result of all these production issues, paired with the negative response to the pre-release images and the casting announcements, the internet assumed that the movie was going to be a stinker… and according to basically every review so far, the internet was correct in said assumption.
Independent’s Clarisse Loughreystarted off strongin her one-out-of-five star review, stating that “Borderlands is a disaster” and blamed “wildly miscast actors and an impenetrable script” for its terrible score.
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Empire’s Dan Jolinwas ever so slightly nicerin his two-outta-five review, calling it a “sloppy assembled” movie and referring to it as “a botched Guardians wannabe that isn’t half as fun as you’d hope from the punky sci-fi promise”.
I’ll be honest, I spent a long time hunting down a review that wasn’t completely negative and the best I could find is this one from Jakarta Globe’s Jayanty Nada Shofa that described it as “Just alright”.
Glowing praise. I wonder if they’ll put that quote on the poster?
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