Get ready to take the flight to Pandora with Borderlands on VOD and rental services. The film hits those platforms starting on August 30th from Lionsgate. It comes from director Eli Roth and producer Avi Arad. It adapts the wildly popular video game series and stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Here’s a full synopsis with the characters from Lionsgate.
Lilith, an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas, the universe’s most powerful SOB. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with Roland, a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina, a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg, Tina’s musclebound protector; Tannis, the oddball scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap, a wiseass robot. Together, this ragtag team goes on a mission to save Tiny Tina, battle alien species, and discover one of Pandora’s most explosive secrets. The fate of the universe could be in their hands — but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other. Based on one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time, welcome to Borderlands.
On August 30, Borderlands will be available to buy for $24.99 and to rent at $19.99 (48-hour period) on participating digital platforms from which movies are purchased, including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and more.
What Did We Think Of Borderlands?
Here’s what we had to say about Borderlands in our review.
When Borderlands feels like you’re watching a third-person version of the games, when the action is frenetic and quirky, it works. That just doesn’t happen very often. It’s trying to play off like those campy science-fiction films of the late ’70s and ’80s that had heart and soul but didn’t have the budget to compensate. This movie does have the budget to compensate but doesn’t have the soul to make you care about these characters coming together. Everything feels like it’s just moving along on a line instead of twisting and turning. It all really stems from a script that explains things in a hamfisted way, the look of the movie being off (the original games were cel-shaded and dirty-looking), and just a meandering plot that doesn’t capture the feel/humor of some of the movies that are clearly influencing it.
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