Gearbox’s Borderlands video games are recognized for fairly a couple of 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 collection 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 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 collection mascot Claptrap (as voiced by Jack Black) shitting out a variety of bullets. Fortunately it doesn’t go on too lengthy, however it’s nonetheless a little bit of weirdness that most likely lands extra for those who groove with the video games’ common humorousness.(Which could 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 intense 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 gaggle of raiders. This half is probably the most Borderlands-ass a part of your entire clip, minus how nobody’s utilizing of their class expertise to make this struggle considerably shorter. Should you want one thing on this film to latch onto, it seems like Blanchett shall be your lifeline. She seems 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 situation right here may 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 strategy 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 mixture of all three, because the later video games have weapons with two factor varieties?)
Borderlands involves theaters on August 9, and hopefully between every now and then, the film seems extra just like the video games in the way in which that issues: endearingly silly violence and humor that looks like there was intent behind it.
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