I just watched the Borderlands movie and it was… not good. I want to call it horrifyingly bad however my non-video gamer parents found the movie watchable. But they also liked the Emoji Movie, so half a point for the movie.
I was biased when the movie was announced as I was super disappointed that Mordecai and Brick were not going to be in it. I admittedly wasn’t a big fan of the games due to me not really playing many shooters at the time but I did play the second game a couple of times with my sibling when they first released. I was more into the characters, concepts of the games, and the dumb humor.
I do not completely hate the cast choices in theory. I liked the actor for Tina and Krieg in terms of design. Their jokes however almost never landed. For the others, don’t really mind them making Lilith and Tannis older compared to in the games if they used a better script. Roland could have worked with a better script, but I do think another actor would have had an easier time portraying the character compared to Kevin.
I do think the majority of the issues I had with this movie is the script and editing. The jokes rarely landed (which I can only give them a half a point as my mother did laugh a singular time during the entire movie). Jack Black seemed to try with the jokes. The jokes with Claptrap were boring at best and agonizing at worst. Tina’s actor seemed to try really hard to get the jokes to land, but the timing of many of them seemed too long between the setup and the punchline. Krieg had similar issues as his “one-liners” were awkward in timing as they were set too late in scenes. Lilith seemed too preoccupied in defending the choice of having the character being older rather than actually being a character (ex. Having Lilith continuously complaining about being old). Roland really tried to come off as serious which could have possibly worked if the world surrounding the character was more “borderlands-esque”. However, due to the rest of the cast and environments being as “bland”, there was not enough of a contrast to be fun. Tannis’s acting was odd. It was almost over-the-top enough to be decent, but again was held back by the script.
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