Feel like the hate this is getting is more than a tad overblown. Is it great? No, but it’s far from the totally inept abomination the internet hyperbole machine is portraying it as. It’s more underwhelming than awful, and that’s only because Eli Roth is out of his depth trying to make an action flick. Like dude, you’ve had two chances now between this and Death Proof. Stick to gory grindhouse horror because this clearly isn’t in your wheelhouse. In the hands of a more appropriate director who could make the storytelling and set pieces have greater impact this might have been something. You can see the potential is there to create a sci-fi film franchise that could rival even the mighty Star Wars with a little bit of better world-building. Kind of has me hoping Borderlands gets another shot at being turned into a movie sometime later on down the line.  Overall, I wouldn’t recommend paying to go see this in theaters, but it’s watchable enough to make for a lazy weekday after work option when it inevitably hits a streaming service you’re already subscribed to thanks to a shockingly stacked cast, fairly regular chuckle-worthy moments and dialogue largely coming from Jack Black’s Claptrap, and an inexplicably committed Cate Blanchett being her unbelievably sexy 55 y/o self rocking a red wig.  Random notes:

• The big twist is the most obvious thing in the world everyone will see coming from miles away.
• Ariana Greenblatt is a disappointment, but I don’t think that’s her fault as much as it is the script’s for not making her Tiny Tina crazy enough or really that insane at all.
• Krieg and the other regular psycho’s masks looked like plastic cosplay pieces.
• Kevin Hart brings nothing to the table and serves no purpose other than being just another body to fire a gun during the bigger action sequences.
• Not enough Moxxi.