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A video game adaptation that bombed last year has found lots of fans on Amazon Prime (Picture: Lionsgate)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A film with a reported budget of $145,000,000 (\u00a3113,038,834) that was one of 2024\u2019s biggest flops<\/a> has found a new audience as it leaps up the Amazon Prime Video<\/a> chart.<\/p>\n

Borderlands<\/a> is a star-studded movie adaptation of the popular video game franchise<\/a>, starring Cate Blanchett<\/a>, Kevin Hart<\/a>, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gina Gershon, Ariana Greenblatt and \u00c9dgar Ram\u00edrez.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Directed by Eli Roth and pitched as sci-fi action comedy<\/a>, the film bombed upon release in August, finishing its theatrical run after grossing just $33m (\u00a326.2m).<\/p>\n

It also debuted with a shocking 0% score from critics on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, where it was branded an \u2018epic fail\u2019, although that has moved up to 10% in the following months.<\/p>\n

Borderlands follows a ragtag team of misfit<\/a>s, including Lonewolf bounty hunter Lilith (Blanchett), soldier Roland (Hart), xenoarchaeologist Dr Tannis (Curtis) and pre-teen demolitionist Tiny Tina (Greenblatt), on a mission to save a missing girl who holds the key to unimaginable power.<\/p>\n

The movie was added to Amazon\u2019s Prime Video streaming service in the UK as free to subscribers near the end of February, when Anthony Mackie\u2019s sci-fi thriller Extraction was still dominating the charts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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class=\"metro-comment-cta__inner\"><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text-wrap\"><title>Comment now<\/title><span class=\"metro-comment-cta__text\">What did you think about Borderlands?<\/span><\/span><a class=\"metro-comment-cta__button\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\">Comment Now<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u2018Honestly I don\u2019t get the hate for this movie, I actually liked it,\u2019 Noah A shared on Rotten Tomatoes, where the film has a stronger 49% rating from audience reactions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This movie is awesome and one of those rare films I can watch twice in a week,\u2019 wrote Barry A, while Stitch O added: \u2018Great fun! People are way too harsh, I love the games and this was a fun adaptation.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22413044 lazyload\" alt=\"Cate Blanchett as Lilith in Borderlands. Photo Credit: Katalin Vermes\" loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/SEI_216107231-be07.jpg\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Borderlands’ star-studded cast included Cate Blanchett as infamous bounty hunter Lilith (Picture: Katalin Vermes\/Lionsgate)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The same sentiment was echoed in other reviews, as one fan penned on Google: \u2018Look, this film isn’t a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but if you want an entertaining popcorn flick, this is it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Borderlands: The Movie is an absolute thrill ride from start to finish, perfectly capturing the chaotic charm of the beloved video game series. As someone who has played all the games multiple times, I was blown away by how faithfully the movie brought the world of Pandora to life,\u2019 insisted Ashley in her fan review.<\/p>\n<p>When it was released in cinemas, critics had described it as \u2018a deeply terrible film\u2019, \u2018lousy\u2019 and \u2018awful, awful stuff\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Video game movie adaptations have spewed out some serious clunkers over the years. But even by the lamentable standards of the genre, Eli Roth\u2019s reshoot-plagued Borderlands is abysmal,\u2019 wrote Wendy Ide in her review for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/article\/2024\/aug\/11\/borderlands-review-cate-blanchett-stalks-her-way-through-a-disastrous-video-game-adaptation-eli-roth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Observer<\/a>, while Lucas Paul-Hill for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/entertainment\/films\/1933509\/borderlands-movie-review-video-game-cate-blanchett-tiny-tina\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Daily Express<\/a> commented: \u2018Borderlands is just too unbearable and confusing to even recommend as \u2018so bad it\u2019s good\u2019 cinema.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"431\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"article-image wp-image-22413038 lazyload\" alt=\"This image released by Lionsgate shows, from left, Kevin Hart as Roland, Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Krieg, and Cate Blanchett as Lilith in a scene from "Borderlands." 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Borderlands is a star-studded movie adaptation of the popular video game franchise, starring Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis, Gina Gershon, Ariana Greenblatt and \u00c9dgar Ram\u00edrez.\u00a0 Directed by Eli … <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/05\/mega-budget-2024-film-with-unlikely-rotten-tomatoes-score-climbs-amazon-prime-video-chart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> “Mega-budget 2024 film with unlikely Rotten Tomatoes score climbs Amazon Prime Video chart”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.isshicare.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}