We have yet another contender for worst movie of 2024.

I have had five other films that I would consider for the top spot of the worst film list and I am not sure yet which movie will gain that lofty position. You can add a sixth to the mix.

And this one had two Oscar winning actors on it too.

Borderlands, based on the popular video game, may have set the video game movie subgenre back years as the last several projects based on video games had been well received. Borderlands put that streak to an end.

According to IMDB, “Lilith (Cate Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing daughter of Atlas (Edagr Ramírez), the universe’s most powerful S.O.B. Lilith forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits – Roland (Kevin Hart), a seasoned mercenary on a mission; Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), a feral preteen demolitionist; Krieg (Florian Munteanu), Tina’s musclebound protector; Tannis (Jamie Lee Curtis), the oddball scientist who’s seen it all; and Claptrap (Jack Black), a wiseass robot. Together, these unlikely heroes must battle an alien species and dangerous bandits to uncover one of Pandora’s most explosive secrets. The fate of the universe could be in their hands – but they’ll be fighting for something more: each other.“

The first thought I had when it started was how cheap it looked. It felt like a really low-budget film, something that might appear as a short on YouTube. The CGI at the end made Blanchett look really like a video game, and not in a good way.

The dialogue was horrendous. You could almost hear Blanchett gritting her teeth as she said some of the words. Okay, maybe that was just me.

The characters were silly and barely two dimensional. None of their stories were interesting and they were only relatable because they were famous actors in these roles. Kevin Hart was more laid back than he usually is in a film like this though. Ariana Greenblatt was an attractive young woman, but her character was inconsistent and shaky.

The robot Claptrap needed to shut up. He was not funny. He was obnoxious and not even the great voice over skill of Jack Black, who has done a ton of voice over work from Po to Bowser, could save this character.

I think I giggled twice (it may have been more of a guffaw) and the story just did not do justice to this amazing cast of actors.

I found little interesting in here, outside of just constantly thinking to myself that I was watching Cate Blanchett in this movie.

1.1 stars