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What could barely be called a plot is of low end fanfiction quality. The kind written by a teenager that wrote themselves in as a character into the story, crammed all three games into a proverbial blender for the story, to then write themselves into a corner.
The only way I could watch it again would be after ingesting a fifth of Skrewball peanut butter whiskey to then play a twisted game of Where's Waldo with the film. Might need a second fifth just to ensure I am inebriated enough to actually enjoy it a second time around; passed out on the floor.
Borderlands 4 being announced so soon afterwards was funny. Either the reveal trailer was a frantic attempt at damage control or the powers to be were so delusional they thought the movie would actually succeed and be a good point to catapult off of into the game reveal.
Characters just felt too shallow and idiotic to give it a good score. Claptrap + Krieg where okay tho. I expected them to be more flanderized as in the games. Especially Roland and Lilith where let downs.
BL2 Roland intro: He wrestles a Loader Bot with his bare hands. Also he's way taller.
BL movie Roland intro: Some loud mouth clown that can not shut up.
Calling it a B-grade movie is pretty generous. It was 'Cheese Kung-Fu from the 70s' quality. The cinematography was just bad, the story was bad, the casting was bad, etc.
For instance on the story, take the thing with the psychos and the elevator. Instead of what happened, imagine a Bad-Ass was on the scene. Roland, seeing it in the distance at the start, took that chance with his unlimited assault weapon to shoot it in the head to get it out of the way. Seeing it not only survive but go crazy, he runs off immediately back to the elevator while it goes crazy killing everyone.
When it's done, he takes the gift from Tina and fights it to the death for a narrow win.
Now, imagine that versus what we got: "He got tackled and slammed to the ground by a bunch of mobs.. but then shortly after pushed out from under a pile he had no way of actually beating and comes out completely unharmed with every single thing in the hall dead." That was a stupid decision.
Another example of cinematography: When rocks are falling from the sky, they COULD have run behind other rocks and stuff, stupid but I guess passable. But what did they instead do? Roland rolled 'behind' a rock that was only behind because of camera placement. What he actually did was just roll on the ground for no reason.
Now let's look at the gunplay. It was stupid. They were trying to use 'Gun-Fu' like John Wick, and instead just came off as children on a playground running around with their fingers going Pew Pew! Zero recoil, zero reloading, zero aiming, zero interaction with anything properly shot, every single shot was a kill no matter where it shot them, every punch they threw took down opponents, etc. The fighting/gun play was also bad.
There was nothing redeeming about this beyond Kreig, but even there? His voice lines are out of nowhere and feel completely disconnected from the story. Are they in character? Yes, so that gets a point. Rest of the cast was bad.
I wouldn't watch either of those, but I think the acolyte is worse.
The acolyte is written by someone that hates what George Lucas Star Wars stood for and this borderland movie is just a really crappy movie with some of the worst casting I've ever seen but it's not actively try to destroy the franchise... it's already doing a great job doing that itself haha.
It's cute to see these game companies making movies for the older folks who don't play games and don't care about "lore" or "consistency", they just like that it has the funny short guy and that old lady who used to be hot back in their prime.
A freaking looter shooter franchise should have NEVER been adopted into a hollywood movie PERIOD. The gaming industry needs to stop chasing the coattails of hollyweird when it is the SUPERIOR entertainment medium at this point. Everything movies offer, gaming offers 100% more and your less likely to have some weird producers views/opinions shoved down your throat since its an interactive medium over one you just watch.
This movie (no one asked for) did more harm to the BL franchise then any of the games ever could, because now the mainstream is ONLY going to view the franchise through the lens of that one crap movie instead of the actual games.