After first contact with fans yesterday, critics are even more disappointed with the film Borderlands for some reason. They don't like it. They don't even rate it "very bad to good." No matter how you look at it, it really is an extremely bad movie. It has a staggering 3% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Without further improvement, "Borderlands" will be in the middle of RT's "100 Worst Movies of All Time" list: ...... It is also #1 on the "Worst Blockbusters of All Time" list, below even 2010's "The Last Airbender". [Perhaps the most scathing criticism of "Borderlands" came from Rolling Stone magazine, where critic David Fear called the film "an insult to gamers, moviegoers, and carbon life forms. I think this is an unnecessarily harsh assessment of our taste for theoretical silicon-oxygen-fluorine biochemical life forms. They would also hate the movie Borderlands."

"I seriously wonder if the sole purpose of 'Borderlands' is to make every other video game adaptation look a thousand times better than it does," Fear said. Then he added, "To put it bluntly, it's a terrible waste of time, talent, and pixels. Not even the pleasure of watching Blanchett wield a pistol and kick butt can salvage this."

In IGN's home turf, one might expect a video game movie to do better, but "Borderlands" fails to land, earning a "terrible" rating from reviewer Matt Donato. There are some fun locations, but "they are all spoon-fed, familiar, and as mouth-watering as a piece of rice cake."

Even Variety couldn't find anything to love: by the time "Borderlands" unlocks the vault, even the characters don't seem to care what's inside.

But the best summary of the critics' opinions comes from William Bibbiani of The Wrap, whose review of "Borderlands" fails to try to be like other good movies, rather than finding its own voice derived from the game He points out all the points. [The] biggest problem with Eli Roth's 'Borderlands' is not that it's a bad film," Bibbiani says. It's a mass-produced bad film. All the edges have been trimmed away so that it can be safe and mainstream, but it's been overdone and there's almost nothing left. Technically, the film is based on 'Borderlands.' Nothing else."

It remains to be seen if the box office for "Borderlands" will live up to its promise, but I think everyone expects that it won't take off there either.