Immediately, throughout IGN Reside, we received our first actual take a look at the Borderlands film, and people, I’m unsure that is going to be excellent.
Based mostly on the favored looter shooters developed by Gearbox and printed by 2K Video games, Borderlands was first introduced all the best way again in 2020. The film is being directed by Eli Roth and has been in manufacturing hell for years now. However lastly, our lengthy nationwide nightmare is sort of over as Borderlands arrives in theaters on August 9. Sadly, I’m unsure its going to be definitely worth the wait based mostly on a scene launched earlier in the present day throughout IGN Reside’s Day 1 showcase.
Within the new scene, we see Roland (Kevin Hart), Lilith (Cate Blanchett), Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Kireg (Florian Munteanu), and Claptrap (voice by Jack Black) in a darkish underground facility full of packing containers and never many lights. It’s arduous to see what’s taking place.
That is alleged to be an action-packed sequence from a serious movement image, but it surely feels extra like a pre-recorded skit from a so-so episode of Saturday Evening Reside. Enemies get shot and simply fall down with no blood or gore, characters transfer round slowly although that is meant to be a fast-paced sequence, and all of that is finished to generic music that you simply’ll neglect in regards to the second the scene ends.
However low cost units, bland motion, and iffy pacing may be overcome by nice performances and sadly, although the forged is stacked with individuals who have finished good work, nothing in right here lands. I like Borderlands. Rather a lot! I benefit from the jokes and the world. This…this isn’t that. I don’t know what that is. What I can inform you is after seeing this scene I’m satisfied Hart, Blanchett, and Jamie Lee Curtis—who performs Dr. Tannis within the movie—will not be the best actors for these characters. Curtis feels particularly misplaced as Tannis. And Hart… I simply don’t perceive why some of the severe characters in Borderlands, Roland, is being performed by a comic.
And be mindful that is the scene the producers and other people concerned thought was ok to debut on-line. That is what they’re promoting the film on. That is their large “Check out this and get excited!” clip. If that’s the case, effectively, I worry for the remainder of the film.
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