Borderlands Debuts at 0% on Rotten Tomatoes

Borderlands is coming to theaters tomorrow, and critics are doing their best to save you some money this weekend as the film based on the popular video game series debuts at a shameful 0% on review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes.

Led by Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Edgar Ramírez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Greenblatt, and Florian Munteanu, and featuring the voice of Jack Black, it's a wonder how Borderlands fell so far off track, particularly with a wealth of source material to pull from.

Eli Roth's PG-13 wade into IP is getting ripped to shreds by critics who have labeled it "disappointing", "messy", and "the worst kind of bad movie".

Andrew J. Salazar at Discussing Film says, "fans deserve a lot better than whatever director Eli Roth is trying to do with Borderlands", and Cynthia Vinney at Looper says Borderlands "feels tedious instead of inspired, dull instead of gripping."

Although only ten reviews have been uploaded so far, there is a unique unanimous consensus among critics who believe you should keep your money firmly in your wallets and sit this one out.

Our review describes the film as a lifeless cash grab that doesn't respect itself or the audience, commenting on how lazy IP filmmaking has gone too far.

Borderlands Review Roundup

• Men's Journal: If Borderlands doesn't stop studio executives from salivating at the sight of every single IP that comes across their desks, nothing will.
• AwardsWatch: Borderlands is the worst kind of bad movie; the type devoid of any offbeat quirks that could propel it to a second life as a cult classic, feeling insufferable and overlong at a brisk 102 minutes because of its sheer lack of originality.
• Next Best Picture: It's impressive how Roth can elicit the poor quality of 2000s video game adaptation energy yet somehow forget the discernable sense of fun or style that made even those terrible movies stand out.
• Collider: It's just disappointing that the source material has so much more to offer in terms of its layered characters and complicated themes of trauma and survival that the film seems either uninterested in or incapable of tapping into.
• Original Cin: An hour-plus of noise and lame wisecracks without tension or sense of purpose, Borderlands would be Exhibit Z in the argument that video games don't transfer well cinematically... if recent efforts like The Last of Us or Fallout hadn't proved otherwise.