The live-action movie "Borderlands" completely failed, with a 0% freshness rating on Rotten Tomatoes at the beginning

The reputation of the live-action movie "Borderlands" has been a disaster. As of press time, Rotten Tomatoes has collected 47 reviews, but the approval rate is only 6%, and the audience score is 51%. On Metacritic, the average score of 23 media is 29 points, which is also very poor.

It is worth mentioning that the live-action movie "Borderlands" had an opening score of 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. There were 25 film critics at the time, and all of these 25 media critics gave it a "rotten" rating, resulting in a 0% freshness rating at the start.

Rotten Tomatoes current freshness rating is 6%

The comprehensive entertainment media IGN only gave a 3-point rating:

Borderlands is a catastrophic disappointment, a crudely stitched-together mess that betrays everything fans love about Gearbox Software's series in derivative, pathetic ways.

IGN 3 points

IGN Rating Summary:

Borderlands is a terrible rip-off of a beloved series, taking a bunch of weird, murderous, misfits and draining the fun out of their first adventure together.

Director Eli Roth is no James Gunn, and this movie lacks all of the lovably crazy characters, stunning sci-fi visuals, and otherworldly storytelling from Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.

The film only superficially replicates the hyper-stylized style of the Borderlands games, and all the gory dismemberment violence, raunchy humor, and uniquely deranged themes are replaced with mass-market repetitive blandness due to a PG-13 rating. This is the worst Borderlands movie ever made, goes against the entire spirit of the series, and is a dismal failure.

MTC's current average score is 29 points

Foreign media Collide gave it 5 points (out of 10): "It's disappointing that the original game has such multi-layered characters and complex themes about trauma and survival, but the film seems uninterested in these, or unable to explore them."

Men's Journal critic Billie Melissa called the film "a lifeless cash-grab that respects neither itself nor its audience. If No Man's Land doesn't stop studio executives from salivating over every IP that crosses their desk, nothing will."