Eli Roth’s recent Borderlands film adaptation hasn’t exactly had the best debut. Ahead of release, critics far and wide shared disparaging reviews of the adaptation, with phrases such as “disaster” and “lifeless, unfunny, and visually repulsive dud” being bandied about.
And then the film was released and, well, things didn’t really get much better. The Cate Blanchette-fronted adaptation generated just $4m on its opening day, a disappointing result that looks set to result in the film becoming a commercial flop.
In fact, Borderlands has been such a misfire that now even filmmaker Uwe Boll – who previously directed Alone in the Dark adaptation, which saw him nominated for not one but two ‘Worst Director’ awards (one of which he won) – is taking a swipe at it.
As spotted by PC Gamer, earlier this week Boll shared an infographic taken from IGN’s social media account that detailed Borderlands’ opening weekend sales figures. He captioned this image thus: “Ha ha. My movies were rated R and made more money than this. Now you wish I Directed.”