There is a galaxy that was once ruled by a species called the “Eridians”, who had the kind of powers the world fights over.The Eridians are long gone now, with pieces of the powers they had scattered across a planet called Pandora. In the consequent years of struggle for those powers, particularly the big one lying inside “The Vault”, Pandora has been reduced to a planet full of monsters, piss, scrap, garbage and some very angrily mad people, in no particular order.
But the search for The Vault continues, and can be opened with only a daughter of an Eridian, plus one other key which looks nothing like a key.
You may feel you have heard all that before – you won’t be wrong. And you may feel you have seen it all before – just recently in Deadpool and Wolverine, in fact.
However, have you seen Cate Blanchett do the hunting, sporting shocking red hair and eyecatchingly coloured ensembles? With Jamie Lee Curtis for an audience?
These two great women can save many a film, so what’s a planet or two to stop them? However, this Eli Roth adaptation of a video game is just too generic, too familiar, too incapable of raising either laughs or emotions (one whole group is just known as “psychos”, while another are “those people who are too psycho for even psychos”), and too unclear about what is at stake for any of this to matter.
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Making Jack Black a robot called Claptrap perhaps doesn’t help, even as Kevin Hart struggles to infuse any charisma into his significant presence. The standout, besides Blanchett, who can hardly ever do anything wrong, is Greenblatt. She is as bratty and as batty as they get, with a pining heart and a sad backstory to boot.
As long as the hunt is about catching the girl, or saving her, and her getting the better of those trying to do either – with some wicked toys – Borderlands is on the right planet.
Cast: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Curtis, Edgar Ramirez, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt
Director: Eli Roth
Rating: 2 stars
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