Gearbox’s Borderlands video games are identified for fairly just a few issues, however the greatest 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 plagued by humor largely within the vein of crass or web humor. No shock then that carries over to the live-action movie, 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 a number of bullets. Fortunately it doesn’t go on too lengthy, but it surely’s nonetheless a little bit of weirdness that most likely lands extra if you happen to groove with the video games’ normal humorousness.(Which may be legit humorous typically, 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 aspect, 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 in opposition to a bunch of raiders. This half is probably the most Borderlands-ass a part of your complete clip, minus how nobody’s utilizing of their class expertise to make this struggle considerably shorter. For those who want one thing on this film to latch onto, it seems to be like Blanchett shall be your lifeline. She seems to be 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 struggle.
The larger problem right here is perhaps that the clip is simply too sterile for its personal good. Borderlands video games aren’t bloody to the diploma of a Mortal Kombat or Gears of Warfare, 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; considered one of these guys wants a gun that melts these raiders or electrocutes or lights them on hearth. (Perhaps a mix of all three, for the reason that later video games have weapons with two aspect varieties?)
Borderlands involves theaters on August 9, and hopefully between from time to time, the film seems to be extra just like the video games in the way in which that issues: endearingly silly violence and humor that appears like there was intent behind it.
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