Borderlands

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Borderlands

PG-13

2024

1h 42m

Sci-Fi

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Lilith (Cate Blanchett), 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 (Edgar Ramírez), the universe's most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits -- Roland (Kevin Hart), a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina's musclebound protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the oddball scientist who's seen it all; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a wiseass robot. Together, these unlikely heroes must battle an alien species and dangerous bandits to uncover 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 videogame franchises of all time, welcome to BORDERLANDS.

Critics Consensus

Glitching out in every department, Borderlands is balderdash.

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Audience Says

Borderlands squanders its star power and the chance to build on the space Western video game, ultimately delivering little more than a “meh.”

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Kim Newman

Sight & Sound

Dec 19

A junk-heap of a film set on a junk-heap of a planet, Borderlands joins the long list of dud computer game adaptations which are entirely derivative of earlier movies, comics, TV shows and toy packaging materials.

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Peter Rainer

FilmWeek (LAist)

08/28/2024

There's a lot of talent in this, but it's all in the service of a cacophonous crash-and-bang not-terribly-interesting CGI'd hyper violent movie.

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Lauren Coates

Chicago Reader

08/22/2024

A video game adaptation that completely misses the mark.

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Matthew Simpson

Movies We Texted About

Jul 13

The film is the laziest type of adaptation, one where the filmmakers have only gleaned the most surface-level aspects of the source material and then transplanted them without any of the depth that makes the games likeable.

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John Serba

Decider

12/27/2024

Borderlands sure tries to be funny, but fails mightily – unless you take into account its oodles of unintended meta-commentary.

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

12/04/2024

3/10

I never really know how to kick off these sorts of brutally negative reviews, so I suppose it is easiest to be blunt: Eli Roth’s Borderlands is a deeply terrible film.

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Nic

Sep 21

Definitely wasn’t the original.

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Toy

02/03/2025

Waste of time wasn’t the best movie very cliche and horrible plot. The only reason I watched was for Kevin heart.

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Storm L

02/02/2025

Another movie game bites the dust as the movie just felt all in all boring. Story feels like it’s been recycled before in previous movies.

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Jose L

01/21/2025

It was great but wish it was more true to the game!

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Brock

11/26/2024

Knowing it was based on a video game, they did a good job making it.

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Verified Viewer

11/11/2024

This movie is better if you play the game and know the whole backstory. If you’re just being introduced to this world, the movie does a poor job of explaining it and really doesn’t use these amazing actors to their full potential.

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Synopsis

Lilith (Cate Blanchett), 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 (Edgar Ramírez), the universe's most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits -- Roland (Kevin Hart), a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral pre-teen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina's musclebound protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the oddball scientist who's seen it all; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a wiseass robot. Together, these unlikely heroes must battle an alien species and dangerous bandits to uncover 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 videogame franchises of all time, welcome to BORDERLANDS.

Director: Eli Roth
Producer: Ari Arad, Avi Arad, Erik Feig
Screenwriter: Eli Roth, Joe Crombie
Distributor: Lionsgate
Production Co: Gearbox Studios, Origo Film Group, Lionsgate, Arad Productions, 2K Games, Picturestart, 2K
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Sequences of Violence|Action|Language|Some Suggestive Material)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure, Comedy
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 9, 2024, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 30, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $15.5M
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby Atmos, Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Digital 2.39:1