Get ready for your flight to Pandora with Borderland on VOD and rental services. The film will be released on these platforms from Lionsgate on August 30th. Director Eli Roth and producer Avi Arad are the two. The film adapts the hugely popular video game series and stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Ariana Greenblatt, Florian Munteanu and Jamie Lee Curtis. Here’s a full synopsis with the characters from Lionsgate.
Lilith, a notorious bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home of Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas, the most powerful bastard in the universe. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with Roland, a skilled mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina, a fierce prepubescent demolition expert; Krieg, Tina’s muscle-bound protector; Tannis, the eccentric scientist who has seen it all; and Claptrap, a cheeky robot. Together, this ragtag team embarks on a mission to rescue Tiny Tina, battle alien species, and uncover one of Pandora’s most explosive mysteries. The fate of the universe may be in their hands—but they’ll be fighting for something bigger: each other. Welcome to Borderlands, based on one of the best-selling video game franchises of all time.
On 30 August Borderland will be available to purchase for $24.99 and to rent for $19.99 (48-hour period) on participating digital platforms where movie purchases are made, including Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Google Play, Fandango at Home, and more.
What did we think of Borderlands?
Here’s what we had to say about Borderland in our test report.
If Borderlands feels like you’re watching a third-person version of the games, if the action is frenetic and quirky, then it works. It just doesn’t happen very often. It’s trying to feel like those cheesy sci-fi movies of the late ’70s and ’80s that had heart and soul but not the budget to make up for it. This movie has the budget to make up for that but not the soul to make you see these characters come together. Everything feels like it’s just moving along a line instead of twisting and turning. This all really stems from a script that explains things in a heavy-handed way, the visuals of the movie that are off (the original games were cel-shaded and looked dirty), and a meandering plot that doesn’t capture the feel/humor of some of the movies that clearly influence it.
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