Borderlands
Borderlands
It is indeed true that there is no such thing as a video game adaptation curse, but there are terrible films based on video games. Borderlands, for instance. Honorable mention goes, of course, to Eli Roth’s ugly-as-hell adaptation of one of Gearbox Software’s best loved franchises, the ridiculously entertaining looter shooter following. Even the title ‘Cosplay: The Movie’ would be generous as the Lady von Octopus and similar characters would put any professional cosplayer-turned-enthusiast to shame. Roth’s egregiously pointless and dull one-dimensional primitivism captures none of the ridiculous, creative mess, questing and fun that the games were inspired by.
The film runs like Borderlands 101 one more, this time concerning the character of the grumpy bounty hunter, Lilith, played by Cate Blanchett. Roth and Joe Crombie, who took over for Craig Mazin in the screenplay- which, strikingly, son of the written 2023 conceals- do so in a somewhat disappointing straightforward way. When pandemonium and terror is wreaked the fun of exploring PAndora’s skags And psycho camp is all thrown away because Roth has write his characters in one course of action: The arms dealer business conglomerate Atlas (Edgar ramirez) employs Lilith to locate his daughter who is lost on pandora, and that daughter is the tiny demolitions expert “Tina” and a phenomenal actress anyway. But, true to the borderlands essence, Lilith’s mission involves more than just the need to save Tina from the fines of ex mercenary Roland (Kevin hart) and psycho Krieger (Florian Munteanu). There s also an ancient eridian vault and Tina could be one of the three keys that you need to open it.
This film by Roth is an attempt to psychopathologically relate the drama focus of the Borderlands franchise, but alas, it is rather disappointing. It’s only a matter of time somewhere deep inside the game until Lilith, Tina, Roland, Krieg, Claptrap, a mop-topped mouthwith Jack Black’s voice, assembles a vault hunting squad. Standing in their way are the hostile crimson lance soldiers led by the ideologically zealous commander Knoxx but also massive Threshers which could digest a hunter in one bite. For them, the task is however pretty much complicated. However, whatever the mission maybe that swell giddiness is evaporated in the real sense. Lilith claims one of the many where she simply pulls one drawer and it’s there. Roland out of nowhere misses what should have definitely been a Psycho’s hatchet to the head off camera, and therefore removes a feeling of dread. It’s like watching a game being played on a God mode of endless lives only that the players will not even take any hits of damage – such why the hell game these characters even possess.
There are much better and far more interesting Borderlands fan fictions elsewhere over the net than this Roth’s bland bone nostalgia could conjure up. In his action scenes, he actively plays with his dolls, ordering Blanchett to pretend to be Lilith, Dystopian Maurauder Barbie, hips on hips. The costumes of the characters regardless of being on the battlefield are always clean with the help of a retarded “electric shower” which cleans tough stains instantly.
The most contemplation anyone appears to have done to the Borderlands franchise is answering the question, ‘wouldn’t it be cool if?’, and the answer is most often, ‘no.’ Roth’s production doesn’t really believe in the universe that Gearbox has created, so why are we supposed to care about the reasonable but sickly thin justification that this is a sci-fi game? Nevertheless you’ll be boarding the bus of Marcus’ (Benjamin Byron Davis), you’ll be looking at Dahl ECHO HUDs, and you’ll be admiring the beautiful but corrosive Caustic Caverns and other sceneries from Pandora. But it’s all bland, predictable and as satious as a single bland rice cracker.”
In comparison with even those released during this same year, it is a very safe bet that Borderlands 2 will remain at the bottom of everyone’s list of studio releases when it comes to sight. Even when viewed in IMAX, the dusty backdrops of Pandora still come across as digital vomiting pixels. One of the earlier clips has Tina with bunny ears chucking explosive teddy bears at Lilith while standing up and the green screening of Greenblatt ‘s body on top of Tina’s junk yard was simply bizarre, clearly not trying to realistically place Tina there. At a later stage, when our most unusual heroes are confronted by Atlas, Roth seemingly captured them against a Lowys, Banks and Video climate HPVE, where the video was an online low originating footage of the tube. The games’ love of cel-shading, executing a rather pleasant pop art aesthetic, is perhaps the best aspect of the whole game, hence, what trick would be used to drown the dark begin of the film in shadow upon shadow? Even the costume designer managed to nail the colors of the ensembles which are filled with solidsocio colors, otodokeshi himehou, but even those were wrap a wooden plank surrounding with thin terracotta colored on even dusky backdrops applied through post production.
Apart from Greenblatt – who depicts an explosives addict apparently inspired by Harley Quinn – not a single individual-on-screen looks as though they are having any fun. Most of all, Blanchett: she fits the role of Lilith brilliantly, but the icon incorporates the eye-rolling expression of an annoyed mercenary hired to fight for a cause that is incomprehensible as usual and this apathy translates on screen as lack of compelling performance. Kevin Hart does his routine in a beret, less than some of the stupid dialogues of Florian Munteanu, some of them are simply not audible, and Roth even fails to make of the jack black a consistently funny claptrap. There is no burlesque strip-tease appeal in Gina Gershon’s portrayal of Mad Moxxi, while Jamie Lee Curtis’ cut out neurotic Dr Patricia Tannis exists to serve a very specific function: to dispense a lot of exposition. It is more absurd than the typical complaint of Hollywood actors not being able to behave like their in-game characters; here it is more that Roth squanders their skills, using a roster of big names as slight eyecandy for the fandom.
If I may speak quite frankly, Borderlands seems unfinished. Roth’s narration proceeds with disconcerting speed which suggests lack of important elements of the story. (Is it possible that the two weeks of reshoots with Tim Miller as a stand in director cut Roth down to this?) What’s so special about Krom Olivier Richters that he is given a portrait at the end credits while all he did in the flick was a last minute cameo? There are logical gaps. Gearbox’s video games are far more meticulous, broad, and open to a crazily high degree of emancipation, because Roth’s approach is somewhat juvenile and can be compared to Guardians of the Galaxy coloring book.
Final Analysis
Borderlands is movie that did a bad number on such a revered video game franchise as it features wacky characters as dark assassins but has lost their first big quality story. Movies like these cannot be directed by people like Eli Roth, there are no sweet and entertaining crazies and bright sci-fi plaudits and insane plots like the trilogy of guardians of the galaxy very far from this movie. Only in the most basic of terms is the over the top and flamboyant touch of the Borderlands now in movie form captured and with a PG-13 rating, any scenes in which limbs are cut off, humor that is somewhat near the gutter and themes that are particularly twisted are now dry and bland to appeal to average consumer. In terms of what they were developing the narrative and stylistic approaches of the Borderlands video games, it is now impossible to embody. It is the worst-case-scenario Borderlands movie that undermines everything the Borderlands series is about – a disgraceful failure.
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- Genre: Action, Featured, Popular Movies, Sci-fic, Top Rated Movies
- Country: United States
- Director: Eli Roth
- Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramírez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, Janina Gavankar, Jack Black, Benjamin Byron Davis, Olivier Richters, Gina Gershon, Ryann Redmond, Bobby Lee, Sophie Popper, Haley Bennett, Riana Emma Balla, Steven Boyer, Sámuel Siffel, Lana Borcván-Hobson, Emma Papp, Liliána Kaizer,
