Borderlands

This was...yeah. This was a real movie that I watched. I have never played Borderlands, so I was going in watching this as just a movie. And as a movie, it was honestly...well, a mess is the best way to describe this, so let's get into what meat there is to this film.

So, from what I gather, the plot follows a bounty hunter named Lilith, played by Cate Blanchett, who is clearly too old for the role, being in her mid-50s, but okay, and she is sent by a mega corp leader named Atlas, played by Edgar Ramirez, to save his daughter, Tina, played by Ariana Greenblatt. So, basically, MacGuffin hunt. Never seen that before.

Here's the thing. I like the visual style of the movie with the bright colors and as much violence as a PG-13 rating will allow, but what is the plot of this movie, really? It's just things happening, which means all the bright visuals are wasted. Even with the star power of Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Jamie Lee Curtis, this film just wasn't very interesting. The action scenes were good, but the plot was so dull that they couldn't save the movie for me.

Another thing, Borderlands is an M-Rated game, so why in the hell is this movie rated PG-13? Wider audience? Mortal Kombat, the 2021 version, may have not been well received, but I liked it better than whatever this was. At the end of the day, Borderlands was just kind of a bland, generic slog. The best way I could describe it is Guardians of the Galaxy with all the joy sucked out of it. Nothing has made me more disappointed, as I was going in expecting to at least have a mindlessly fun time, and I didn't even get that.

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