One of the Worst Movies of 2024 With 10% RT Score Is Suddenly a Hit on Prime Video
The star-studded cast didn’t save the flick from falling short with both critics and audiences.
Superhero movies are often a tricky thing to predict when it comes to box office potential success, and one of the movies released last year proved the point of having no hope for a big budget or star-packed ensemble.
Highly anticipated by the lovers of the video game it’s based on, the film opened to a major failure and went into complete disgrace, moving to streaming after spending just three weeks in theatres.
However, the flick’s sins might have just been forgotten for a while as it got a second life on Prime Video and is currently sitting quite high in the streamer’s global chart.
Borderlands Finds Viewers’ Love on Prime Video 7 Months After Theatrical Release
Despite pitiful reviews and financial crashes that hit the movie last year, Borderlands has just got a chance to redeem its reputation, holding the 5th position in Prime Video’s global top 10, according to FlixPatrol.
Based on the video game series of the same name, the film stars Cate Blanchett, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Jamie Lee Curtis and Edgar Ramírez as a group of superheroes uniting their forces to fight with alien species and dangerous bandits, trying to uncover their home planet Pandora’s darkest secrets.
The team has Blanchett’s Lilith as a lead and a bounty hunter tasked with a mission to find the missing daughter of another planet’s most powerful corporate magnate.
With time, Lilith realises those helping her aren’t just strangers anymore, and now they have to fight for each other in the same way that they fight for their planet’s good.
Borderlands Was the Biggest Critical and Box Office Disaster of 2024
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The Eli Roth-directed superhero movie was one of the most awaited releases last year, but everyone’s excitement soon vanished when first reviews flooded in.
Borderlands didn’t have the best start, kicking it off with 0% of positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes; the number ultimately changed to 10% and remains the same to-date, yet it might not be the biggest improvement after all.
Additionally, the movie turned out to be a major disappointment for the video game fans too, even though the viewers were still more condescending and granted Borderlands a score of 49%. Eventually, the flick bombed dramatically in the box office, grossing $33 million against the initial budget of $120 million.