JDK_999’s review published on Letterboxd:
You know things are dire when two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett can't elevate the material. Though, at the very least, this made her look fucking cool.
The fundamental problem with video game adaptations is that the process of taking it from one medium to the other removes one of the key elements that make games engaging: the gameplay. The best adaptations overcome that by offering something new, or entertaining, or through being so high quality they become undeniable. The bad ones, well...
I've never played Borderlands, but I imagine this movie is a pretty good approximation of what it would be like if you took the gameplay out of the game and left everything else in. The digital environments, the clunky exposition, the meaningless banter, the boss fights, the blank-slate characters: these are things that work when you have good gameplay to go along with them. But on their own, it's just a whole lot of not all that much.
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