Gearbox’s Borderlands video games are identified for fairly a number of issues, however the largest amongst these is arguably its humorousness. It was Borderlands 2 the place the franchise’s sense of comedy actually took form, and the collection has since been affected by humor largely within the vein of crass or web humor. No shock then that carries over to the live-action film, whose first clip is…properly, it’s what it’s.
Lionsgate got here to IGN Fan Fest with a brand new clip for the movie, which options collection mascot Claptrap (as voiced by Jack Black) shitting out plenty of bullets. Fortunately it doesn’t go on too lengthy, but it surely’s nonetheless a little bit of weirdness that most likely lands extra for those who groove with the video games’ basic humorousness.(Which may be legit humorous generally, even exterior the more-regarded Tales from the Borderlands spinoff!) If not…properly, that visible’s in your head now, so sorry about that.
On the brilliant aspect, the remainder of the clip has decent-looking motion that includes the Vault Hunters—Roland (Kevin Hart), Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), Krieg (Florian Munteau), and Lilith (Cate Blanchett) going up towards a bunch of raiders. This half is essentially the most Borderlands-ass a part of your complete clip, minus how nobody’s utilizing of their class expertise to make this struggle considerably shorter. In the event you want one thing on this film to latch onto, it appears like Blanchett shall be your lifeline. She appears to be doing an alright impression of a sci-fi gunslinger, one thing the film appears to acknowledge since she will get to be essentially the most concerned on this struggle.
The larger problem right here could be that the clip is just too sterile for its personal good. Borderlands video games aren’t bloody to the diploma of a Mortal Kombat or Gears of Battle, however their method to violence is delightfully cartoonish as a result of the weapons are goofy as all hell. There must be extra taste right here; certainly one of these guys wants a gun that melts these raiders or electrocutes or lights them on hearth. (Perhaps a mixture of all three, because the later video games have weapons with two ingredient sorts?)
Borderlands involves theaters on August 9, and hopefully between every now and then, the film appears extra just like the video games in the way in which that issues: endearingly silly violence and humor that looks like there was intent behind it.
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