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Line 126: ===Critical response=== ''Borderlands'' received negative reviews.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Scullion |first=Chris |date=2024-08-08 |title=The Borderlands movie currently has a Rotten Tomatoes score of 0% |url=https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-borderlands-movie-currently-has-a-rotten-tomatoes-score-of-0/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=[[Video Games Chronicle]] |language=en-GB |archive-date=August 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240813201949/https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-borderlands-movie-currently-has-a-rotten-tomatoes-score-of-0/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bolding |first=Jonathan |date=2024-08-07 |title=The first impressions of the Borderlands movie are out, and include slightly worrying phrases like 'disaster' and 'visually repulsive dud' |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/the-first-impressions-of-the-borderlands-movie-are-about-as-negative-as-youd-expect/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |work=[[PC Gamer]] |language=en |archive-date=August 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808170204/https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/the-first-impressions-of-the-borderlands-movie-are-about-as-negative-as-youd-expect/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://uproxx.com/movies/borderlands-reviews-cate-blanchett-eli-roth-disapointment/|title=Early ''Borderlands'' Reviews Are Staggeringly Negative And Full Of Disappointment Over The Video Game Adaptation|date=August 8, 2024|first=Nina|last=Braca|website=[[Uproxx]]|access-date=August 8, 2024|archive-date=August 8, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808170204/https://uproxx.com/movies/borderlands-reviews-cate-blanchett-eli-roth-disapointment/|url-status=live}}</ref> {{Rotten Tomatoes prose|10|3.3|158|Glitching out in every department, ''Borderlands'' is balderdash.|ref=yes|access-date=August 13, 2024}} {{Metacritic film prose|26|36|ref=yes|access-date= ''[[The Guardian]]'' called the film "janky" and a "juvenile and derivative adaptation"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hassenger |first=Jesse |date=2024-08-08 |title=Borderlands review – Cate Blanchett is wasted in janky video game adventure |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/08/borderlands-movie-review-cate-blanchett |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240813202002/https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/08/borderlands-movie-review-cate-blanchett |archive-date=August 13, 2024 |access-date=2024-08-08 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> while ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'' found it was a "generic gaming adaptation that deprives audiences of the most valuable ingredient of its source: surprise."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Debruge |first=Peter |date=2024-08-08 |title='Borderlands' Review: After 'Tár,' It's Strange to See Cate Blanchett Slumming in a Middling Video Game Movie |url=https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-eli-roth-1236098894/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=August 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809013400/https://variety.com/2024/film/reviews/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-eli-roth-1236098894/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[The Independent]]'' said it was a "total disaster"<ref>{{Cite news |last=Loughrey |first=Clarisse |date=2024-08-08 |title=Borderlands review: This Cate Blanchett video game adaptation is a total disaster |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/borderlands-movie-review-b2592670.html |access-date=2024-08-08 |work=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=August 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240808232339/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/borderlands-movie-review-b2592670.html |url-status=live }}</ref> while ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' wondered if ''Borderlands'' was the worst video game movie ever.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Fear |first=David |date=2024-08-08 |title='Borderlands' Is an Insult to Gamers, Movie Lovers and Carbon-Based Life Forms |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-1235070586/ |access-date=2024-08-08 |magazine=Rolling Stone |language=en-US |archive-date=August 13, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240813201952/https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-reviews/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-1235070586/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[Evening Standard]]'' suggested it was the worst film of the year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jessop |first=Vicky |date=2024-08-08 |title=Borderlands review: is this the worst film of the year? |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-kevin-hart-b1175299.html |access-date=2024-08-08 |website=Evening Standard |language=en |archive-date=August 9, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240809010733/https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-kevin-hart-b1175299.html |url-status=live }}</ref> ''[[PC Gamer]]'' compared ''Borderlands'' to numerous other video game movie adaptations: "You might have heard the claim that this is a righting of the scale, … [to] remind us that good adaptations are the exception, not the rule. We needed a new [[Super Mario Bros. (film)|''Super Mario Bros.'' (1993)]]. We didn't get one. ''Borderlands'' cannot hold a candle to ''Super Mario Bros.'' It is not interestingly bad. ... It has no cheesy, thwarted ambition to redeem it. It never becomes more than a waste of a hundred minutes."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wolens |first=Joshua |date=August 9, 2024 |title=The Borderlands movie is such an irredeemable mess it had me longing for 1993's Super Mario Bros |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/the-borderlands-movie-is-such-an-irredeemable-mess-it-had-me-longing-for-1993s-super-mario-bros/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240810151650/https://www.pcgamer.com/movies-tv/the-borderlands-movie-is-such-an-irredeemable-mess-it-had-me-longing-for-1993s-super-mario-bros/ |archive-date=August 10, 2024 |access-date=2024-08-10 |work=PC Gamer |language=en}}</ref> | |||