Directed by: Eli Roth
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black (voice), Edgar Martinez, Jamie Lee Curtis, Florian Munteanu, Ariana Greenblatt, Gina Gershon
Borderlands is a forgettable movie featuring a slumming A-list cast. How can Cate Blanchett and Jamie Lee Curtis, with three Oscars between them, star in this film? Well, the movie was shot beginning in 2021 before Curtis won her Best Supporting Actress Oscar, but the question remains. Borderlands is based on the popular video game, which I'd never heard of so I'm going into Borderlands cold, but I doubt it matters.
Cate Blanchett stars as bounty hunter Lilith, who is hired by a powerful man to retrieve his kidnapped daughter on Lilith's home planet of Pandora, a desert wasteland populated with what looks like a few junkyards and scrap metal lying in heaps every few miles or so. This is no Tattooine from Star Wars. Lilith teams up with fellow bounty hunters, a hockey-mask wearing hulk striking an eerie similarity to Lord Humongous, and others to find their way to the mythical Vault. The Vault supposedly contains either riches or powers beyond universal understanding. Many have sought it, and the daughter named Tina (Greenblatt) allegedly is the key to opening the vault. No points for predicting that Tina isn't the chosen one.
Blanchett, being the professional and astounding talent she is, tries her mightiest to make Lilith into a person and not a typical cynical soul who knows this world like the back of her hand. Borderlands curiously lacks energy. It seems bored and in turn it bores us. Jack Black is on hand as the voice of Claptrap, who is R2-D2 that can speak English. He is the comic relief, but unfortunately, the amount of relief he would need to provide to make Borderlands palatable is too much to ask of anyone.
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