Things are looking rough for the video game adaptation.
Look, not every video game movie can be Sonic the Hedgehog. More often than not, fans are treated to shoddy Hollywood interpretations of the games they play when taking a trip to the cinema. Such seems to be the case with Borderlands, Lionsgate and director Eli Roth's adaptation of Gearbox's hit video game series. The movie, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black, is in theaters now, but when review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes posted the critical consensus on Borderlands yesterday morning, it debuted to a 0% score. Ouch.
In the hours since, Borderlands has started to fair a little bit better, with the score now sitting at 6% from critics and 51% from fans (although the fan score drops to 37% if you click on the All Audience metric). Still, that's nothing to write home about, and the outlook for the movie is grim. Deadpool & Wolverine remains a juggernaut at the box office, rapidly approaching a billion dollars in ticket sales—if audiences have to choose between seeing D&W one more time or Borderlands, this might tip things against Lionsgate's new movie. With up to a third of Americans relying on aggregation sites like Rotten Tomatoes before heading out to watch a movie, Borderlands might be dead on arrival.
Source: Rotten Tomatoes + Forbes
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