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Borderlands

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• Adventure
• Fantasy

• 2024
• Eli Roth
• 100 mins
• 12

Summary

Sci-fi action comedy based on the hit video game, starring Cate Blanchett. Notorious bounty-hunter Lilith is hired to track down the missing daughter of a shady corporate bigwig, a mission that sends her to the lawless planet of Pandora, which she left as a child. While there, she joins up with a lawless band of misfits who are searching for a legendary vault - and Lilith's mark might hold the key.

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A star rating of 2 out of 5.

Dave Golder

The hunt is on for a secret vault containing alien supertech in this screwball space opera based on a popular video game. Cate Blanchett plays Lilith, a world-weary bounty hunter contracted to track down the kidnapped daughter of a dodgy interplanetary magnate. The girl has been taken to the backwater planet Pandora, but it turns out she's not the helpless victim Lilith expected, and the latter soon becomes a reluctant recruit to a motley group of treasure hunters. Directed by Eli Roth, who cut his teeth on cult horror favourites like Cabin Fever and Hostel, Borderlands is certainly pacey and action packed, but it's also painfully thin on plot and characterisation. Roth is clearly trying for a wacky Guardians of the Galaxy vibe (never more so than when Motörhead's Ace of Spades soundtracks a fight scene), but the lowbrow, juvenile humour lacks the wit and inventiveness of James Gunn's trilogy. However, the Jack Black-voiced robot provides some fun moments and the production design gives the film a cartoonishly scuzzy look.

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4.7/10

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Cast

rolenameLilithCate BlanchettRolandKevin HartAtlasEdgar RamírezTannisJamie Lee CurtisTiny TinaAriana GreenblattKriegFlorian MunteanuKnoxxJanina GavankarClaptrapJack BlackKromOlivier RichtersMoxxiGina GershonLilith's MomHaley Bennett

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rolenameDirectorEli Roth

Details

Theatrical distributor

Lionsgate

Released on

2024-08-09

Languages

English

Guidance

Violence, swearing, sexual references

Formats

Colour

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