Ahead of attending an opening night screening of “Borderlands” last Friday (Aug. 9), I was bracing myself for the worst. At the time, the movie was sitting at a disastrous 6% on Rotten Tomatoes (it’s since risen to the heady heights of 9%) and my colleague had just brandished it with a one-star score in our “Borderlands” review. My expectations were rock bottom as the lights dimmed and the movie began ...
102 minutes later I emerged from the cinema, bleary-eyed and thinking to myself “Was that it?” Yes, “Borderlands” is a bad movie, and it’s pretty likely to feature somewhere in my top 10 least favorite movies of the year come December, but it’s most certainly not the worst movie I’ve seen over the past eight months (and I’ve seen 56 of them in theaters to date). To me, the critical and audience pile-on the movie has experienced over the weekend and into this week feels extremely harsh.
