Hollywood blockbuster starring Cate Blanchett debuts with dismal 0% score on Rotten Tomatoes
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A Hollywood blockbuster starring Cate Blanchett has just received a paltry score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Borderlands, the action film starring Blanchett, 55, and Jamie Lee Curtis, 65, received a dismal 0% score ahead of its August 9 release.
The score was based on 14 disappointing reviews the film received.
The movie's rating has slightly bumped up since then - it now holds a 3% score on the site following the addition of 16 more reviews.
Borderlands was blasted by reviewers, with one asking if it was 'the worst film of the year?'
A Hollywood blockbuster starring Cate Blanchett has just received a paltry score on Rotten Tomatoes; Blanchett pictured last year
However did Blanchett did receive some praise for her performance in the film.
'Has Roth botched an attempt to make a multiplex hit from an edgy nugget of intellectual property? Almost certainly yes. But there are faint, stubborn signs of something more interesting: Blanchett’s charisma unkillable, an occasional lairy oomph,' Danny Leigh of the Financial Times wrote.
One remarked the film was not worthy of her acting abilities.
'In her chameleonic career, Cate Blanchett has donned many guises -- but never before has she had the chance to be a gun-toting, ass-kicking action star. Sadly, Borderlands is an unworthy vehicle for her swaggering performance,' Tim Grierson of Screen International remarked.
Vicky Jessop of the London Evening Standard believes the movie may be one of the worst of 2024.
'Is Borderlands the worst film of the year? It’s definitely in contention -- so laughably bad, in fact, that it feels like being catapulted back to a time when video game adaptations were a byword for mediocrity,' she wrote in her review.
Matt Donato of IGN Movies wrote: 'Borderlands is a catastrophic disappointment that plays like hacked-to-pieces studio slop, betraying everything fans adore about Gearbox Software’s franchise in derivative, regrettable fashion.'
One reviewer said it was the 'definitive worst' of all the films director Eli Roth had worked on.
Blanchett's film received a disappointing 0% on Rotten Tomatoes
'The definitive worst film of Roth’s career and another strike against AAA games brought to the big screen,' Alison Foreman of IndieWire posted.
Dan Jolin of Empire Magazine wrote the film was poorly attempting to resemble Marvel film Guardians of the Galaxy.
'Borderlands so wants to be Guardians Of The Galaxy... But it doesn’t come close to capturing the same Guardians space-magic,' they wrote.
But he did hail Blanchett, writing: 'Blanchett is easily the best in the bunch, touting Lilith’s clownishly large sci-fi weapon with ease and managing to look cool even when the script’s brutally bad jokes become dead air.'
Borderlands also stars Kevin Hart and Jamie Lee Curtis
'Borderlands is lifeless, and no amount of poorly crafted action sequences, manufactured unearned emotion, and cringeworthy attempts at witty quips can revive it. Towards the end, the film practically pleads with audiences to forgive it for its sins, making it all the more inexcusable,' Billie Melissa of Men's Journal wrote.
David Rooney of The Hollywood Reporter noted: 'It’s conceivable that longtime fans of the video game might get more out of Borderlands, but I wouldn’t count on it. At one point, Claptrap returns to operational mode after a heavy-weaponry assault and says, “I blacked out. Did something important happen?” Not in this movie.'
Borderlands will be released in theatres on August 9.
'Based on the best-selling videogame, this all-star action-adventure follows a ragtag team of misfits on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power,' reads the synopsis on IMDb.
'Borderlands so wants to be Guardians Of The Galaxy... But it doesn’t come close,' one critic remarked
Borderlands is based on a role-playing shooter game that takes place in a space Western science fantasy setting, created and produced by Gearbox Software.
Directed by Roth, it also stars Kevin Hart, Jamie Lee Rodriguez and Edgar Rodriguez.
Blanchett plays Lilith, a superhuman 'Siren' who is one of the games several playable characters and one of only six women in the galaxy who have her psychic abilities.
The game follows four 'vault hunters' on the planet of Pandora, where they try and find a secret location full with advanced alien technology while fending off marauders and thieves.
