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 sequence has since been suffering from 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 sequence mascot Claptrap (as voiced by Jack Black) shitting out numerous 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’ normal humorousness.(Which might be legit humorous generally, even outdoors 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 facet, 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 gaggle of raiders. This half is probably the most Borderlands-ass a part of the whole clip, minus how nobody’s utilizing of their class abilities to make this combat considerably shorter. If you happen to want one thing on this film to latch onto, it appears to be like like Blanchett shall be your lifeline. She appears to be like to be doing an alright impression of a sci-fi gunslinger, one thing the film appears to acknowledge since she will get to be probably the most concerned on this combat.
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 Struggle, 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; one in every of these guys wants a gun that melts these raiders or electrocutes or lights them on hearth. (Possibly a mix of all three, because the later video games have weapons with two aspect varieties?)
Borderlands involves theaters on August 9, and hopefully between from time to time, the film appears to be like extra just like the video games in the best way that issues: endearingly silly violence and humor that appears like there was intent behind it.
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