Why anyone thought the star’s role in this video game adaptation would appeal to the demographic is a mystery: there’s not much here for Tar or Carol fans.
has the aura of a predestined loser. The plot, loosely founded on a video game of the same name, is as hokey as hokum gets: a tough bounty hunter racing over the surface of a despoiled planet to rescue a young girl .to be the comic relief, which doesn’t give him space to make much of an impression of any sort.
There’s also a hulking but ultimately good-hearted psycho in a hockey mask , who mostly grunts, and who never becomes memorable or distinctive in any way. At first, I assumed he was included as a nod to Roth’s background as a director of gruesome horror movies, but it turns out similar figures loom large in the original games, which does raise the question as to why Roth was hired in the first place, and whether the producers originally planned on a more brutal, rambunctious approach.
Cate Blanchett as Lilith, Kevin Hart as Roland, Ariana Greenblatt as Tiny Tina, Florian Munteanu as Krieg and Jamie Lee Curtis as Tannis in Borderlands.Adding to the puzzle are reports of reshoots without Roth’s involvement . Whatever really happened behind the scenes, the final product is more or less kid-friendly, despite a lot of breezy murdering and an underlying sourness.
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