In a Nutshell. Mini reviews of movies old and new. No fuss. No spoilers. And often no sleep.

Tuesday 10 September 2024

Borderlands (2024)


Soulless cash grab. The cast is stacked, but you can just see how empty everyone looks behind the eyes. They took a beloved video game franchise and watered it down for the kiddies. Almost like Guardians of the Galaxy, if you stripped all the memorable charm, humor and wit out of it. This is an example of how pandering to the general crowd pleases nobody and fails to engage its core audience. Compare that with the audacity of Deadpool & Wolverine, which embraced its vulgar comic book origins with irreverent glee, despite the potential of limiting its bottom line. You can see how well that turned out for both.
I struggle to find anything redeeming to say about it, other than when it finally ended. 

1 complete waste of everyone's time out of 5

2 comments:

Dr Faustus said...

The PoS label made an appearance! :P
It's like seeing an old friend for the first time in ages.

budarc said...

Yeah, I've been purposing nutting movies I liked over the past summer, since the shitty ones usually fall by the wayside, but this one was still recent enough to leave a turd-sized impact on me.