The first reactions to the Borderlands film are here and it’s been absolutely ROASTED

Just when we really were in a golden age of video game adaptations, it seems one little dump has just plopped to stink out the industry. We’ve had some halcyon days recently – with both The Last of Us and Fallout being some of the most acclaimed TV of their respective years. Fun’s over now, though guys – because Eli Roth’s ensemble cast filled and much hyped Borderlands film has just got the first reactions in and everywhere has utterly dragged it. Here’s a rundown of all the first reactions to the Borderlands film before it releases in cinemas tomorrow. Warning: major “yikes” ahead.

The Independent calls it a ‘total disaster’ in one star review

Funnily enough, the publication also references how we had previously been in a video game golden age before saying this Borderlands film is a regression back to the days “when studios used to make these with all the grace and acuity of a drunk person attempting to place a 3am chicken nugget order.”

Yikes. The Independent brands Borderlands all star cast as “wildly miscast”, and finishes off saying “It’s depressingly bare, as if someone put a Mad Max filter on a paintball centre.”

Awesome Friday

“It’s really bad,” wrote Awesome Friday critic Matthew Simpson on social media. “I really wanted to like it, but an uninspired plot + several phoned in performances + being stuck in a weird place where it looks both expensive and cheap at the same time make it a huge misfire.”

The Standard asks ‘worst film of the year’ in another one star review

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Still not looking good for Borderlands over at the Standard, where the critic asks “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 rather than the prestige vehicles they are now.”

Again talking about how the standard for video game adaptations had been on the up, the Standard decrees “Maybe in 2009, when the bar was through the floor, Borderlands could have passed as a semi-decent video game adaptation. These days, that isn’t going to fly.