The reviews are in on Eli Roth's video game adaptation, and it sure sounds like it went about as well as you could expect a long-delayed Borderlands adaptation to go.
Video game adaptations have always had a bad rap, but at least in relatively recent memory, things have felt like they’ve turned the corner. At the box office we’ve had decent, if notReviews for Eli Roth’s adaptation of the iconic Gearbox sci-fi shooter series have come pouring in today ahead of the film’s opening this week—withisn’t that it’s bad, it’s that it’s not interesting enough to be bad. It’s mass-produced pabulum,” writes William Bibbiani for.
Even amid the biting put-downs and an oddly stacked, albeit apparently wasted cast—which includes the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Ariana Greenblatt—one thing reviewers can agree on other thanhas a decent time as the film’s main character, the psionic bounty hunter Lilith.
“The chance to channel her inner Clint Eastwood probably played a part as well. Maybe she simply wanted to do the action-hero thing in a VFX-filled potential franchise-starter,” muses David Fear for. “What we want is a time machine, which would allow us to travel back to the moment Ms. Blanchett first picked up the “script” for this unholy disaster and plead: Don’t do it.”
Perhaps then, not even Blanchett can save us from a return to the gaming adaptation dark ages. “Go play theshooters. Go watch six-hour gameplay videos of it on YouTube. Go get several chlamydia tests back to back. Every one of those options are far more useful and far, far less painful than this,” Fear concludes.io9 has an exclusive VR video from the set of the popular video game adapation starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart.
Francis Ford Coppola's sci-fi epic comes out in three months, but he's still got some work to do so it's ready for primetime.8/8/2024, 7:00 am
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