Gearbox’s Borderlands video games are recognized for fairly just a few issues, however the largest 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 suffering from 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…nicely, 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 whole lot of bullets. Fortunately it doesn’t go on too lengthy, but it surely’s nonetheless a little bit of weirdness that most likely lands extra should you groove with the video games’ basic humorousness.(Which might be legit humorous generally, even outdoors the more-regarded Tales from the Borderlands spinoff!) If not…nicely, that visible’s in your head now, so sorry about that.
On the intense facet, 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 towards a bunch of raiders. This half is probably the most Borderlands-ass a part of the complete clip, minus how nobody’s utilizing of their class abilities to make this combat considerably shorter. Should you want one thing on this film to latch onto, it seems like Blanchett might 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 combat.
The larger challenge right here is likely to 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 Conflict, however their method to violence is delightfully cartoonish as a result of the weapons are goofy as all hell. There must be extra taste right here; one in every of these guys wants a gun that melts these raiders or electrocutes or lights them on fireplace. (Possibly a mix of all three, because the later video games have weapons with two component varieties?)
Borderlands involves theaters on August 9, and hopefully between at times, the film seems extra just like the video games in the best way that issues: endearingly silly violence and humor that looks like there was intent behind it.
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