The Borderlands movie currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0%
The Borderlands movie has started off with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0%.
Rotten Tomatoes gathers film critics’ reviews of movies, determines whether they were mainly positive or negative, and assigns them a fresh or rotten tomato accordingly.
At the time of writing, 25 reviews for Borderlands have been logged on the site, and all 23 are considered to have delivered ‘rotten’ verdicts, resulting in a ‘freshness rating’ of 0%.
This may change as more reviews are added to the site, but the law of averages means signs currently point to a score that will end up being very low, even if it doesn’t ultimately remain at 0%.
Vicky Jessop at the London Evening Standard gave the movie one star, writing: “Is Borderlands the worst film of the year? It’s definitely in contention – so laughably bad, in fact, that it feels like being catapulted back to a time when video game adaptations were a byword for mediocrity.”
The Hollywood Reporter‘s David Rooney concluded: “It’s conceivable that longtime fans of the video game might get more out of Borderlands, but I wouldn’t count on it. At one point, Claptrap returns to operational mode after a heavy-weaponry assault and says, ‘I blacked out. Did something important happen?’ Not in this movie.”
Empire Magazine‘s Dan Jolin gave the movie two stars, saying: “Borderlands so wants to be Guardians Of The Galaxy… but it doesn’t come close.”
Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: “When done right, such biting self-parody can serve to excuse tired storytelling. Alas, Borderlands arrives so close on the heels of Deadpool & Wolverine that it feels like a belly flop to that film’s cannonball.”
Jonathan Sim at ComingSoon.net gave the film a score of 3/10, calling the film “one of [director Eli] Roth’s weakest films, offering little excitement or laughs”.
Taylor Gates at Collider scored it 5/10, saying: “It’s just disappointing that the source material has so much more to offer in terms of its layered characters and complicated themes of trauma and survival that the
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