David Bridges
Gearbox’s Borderlands video games are identified 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 sequence has since been affected by humor largely within the vein of crass or web humor. No shock then that carries over to the live-action movie, 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 sequence mascot Claptrap (as voiced by Jack Black) shitting out loads of bullets. Fortunately it doesn’t go on too lengthy, however it’s nonetheless a little bit of weirdness that most likely lands extra in the event you groove with the video games’ normal humorousness.(Which will be legit humorous generally, 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 brilliant 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 essentially 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. For those who want one thing on this film to latch onto, it seems to be like Blanchett will likely be your lifeline. She seems to be to be doing an alright impression of a sci-fi gunslinger, one thing the film appears to acknowledge since she will get to be essentially the most concerned on this combat.
The larger situation 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; 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, for the reason that later video games have weapons with two factor varieties?)
Borderlands involves theaters on August 9, and hopefully between from time to time, the film seems to be 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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