As a critic, it’s my job to treat everything with decency – but I can say with some certainty that the Borderlands movie, which received shocking reviews, was not well received. I trust the opinion of my PC Gamer colleague Joshua Wolens, who sat down and watched the entire film and called it “a tasteless mush that no one involved wanted to save” and “an excuse to buy a bag of popcorn.”

This critical reaction seems to have had an impact on the US box office as well. Variety reports that Borderlands grossed $8.8 million in its opening weekend in the US. This film cost $115 million to produce, with an additional $30 million in marketing and distribution.