There's a lot of talent in this, but it's all in the service of a cacophonous crash-and-bang not-terribly-interesting CGI'd hyper violent movie.

| Aug 28, 2024

A video game adaptation that completely misses the mark.

| Aug 22, 2024

The heroes snipe at each other relentlessly, and rarely appear to be enjoying each other’s company, which makes it difficult to buy them as an eventual surrogate family, even a dysfunctional one like the Guardians of the Galaxy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 15, 2024

A truly elaborate production design in which real sets are seamlessly combined with digital effects, something that does not necessarily happen in the industry's blockbusters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 15, 2024

Right as Hollywood has started to learn how to successfully adapt games for the screen, Borderlands arrives as a reminder of how not to do it.

| Aug 14, 2024

An insipid mishmash of trite genre tropes, “Borderlands” is devoid of any real edge.

| Aug 12, 2024

Video game movie adaptations have spewed out some serious clunkers over the years. But even by the lamentable standards of the genre, Eli Roth’s reshoot-plagued Borderlands is abysmal.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 12, 2024

Nothing that works about the games has been adapted intact in this ugly, boring, truly inept piece of filmmaking.

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 12, 2024

There’s hardly any character development or dramatic peaks and valleys in “Borderlands” to hold the viewer’s interest, even for such a brief runtime.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 9, 2024

The tone of the movie is all over the map, which leaves much of the cast painting expressions on their faces that are a cross between stoic frustration and subtle confusion.

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 9, 2024

The choppy action scenes and the wan, lifeless incorporation of the film’s settings and backgrounds with the characters’ movements smack of postproduction shenanigans more than they do of on-set incompetence...

| Aug 9, 2024

The film makes mind-boggling choices for an adaptation of a game series so inseparable from its obnoxiously rough-and-tumble tone, characters, and humor.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 9, 2024

Console junkies will find themselves involuntarily hammering an imagined X button in the hope of getting back to the gameplay. No good. You’re stuck with this wacko BS.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2024

There are still many cinema turkeys headed our way before the year closes. But this sci-fi gobbler mixes inept directing, terrible writing, indifferent acting and gawdawful CGI into such stupefying boredom, it feels like nothing could top it for badness.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 8, 2024

Like the original first-person shooter game, “Borderlands” is set on a junkyard planet named Pandora that was once a home base for an advanced alien species, but has since been overrun by violent marauders and women with formidable push-up bras.

| Aug 8, 2024

Blanchett, outfitted in sparkly gear and a swoop of bright red hair, deserves credit for not shrinking from a task so far beneath her.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2024

This film, instead, is lazy bricolage, cobbled together by so-called creatives who appear not to care and by some who should clearly know better.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 8, 2024

“Borderlands” trudges through its treasure hunt scenario and endless ripoffs of better franchises from “Lethal Weapon” to “Star Wars.” It makes you want to go home and blow up your Playstation.

| Aug 8, 2024

It’s not a movie for critics, as the saying goes. Nor is it suitable for consumption by most gamers, film lovers, or 99 percent of carbon-based life forms.

| Aug 8, 2024

The biggest problem with Eli Roth’s 'Borderlands' isn’t that it’s bad, it’s that it’s not interesting enough to be bad. It’s mass-produced pabulum.

| Aug 8, 2024