Take-Two Boss Reacts To Borderlands Movie’s Bad Reviews: “Give The Film A Chance”

The Borderlands movie is in theaters now, and it’s not getting great reviews. Here at GameSpot, our Borderlands movie review scored it a 2/10. Some called it a “miserable failure” and “generic.”

Strauss Zelnick, the head of Borderlands publisher Take-Two, said in an interview that people should “give the film a chance.”

“A lot of people worked really hard on it. The underlying intellectual property is phenomenal, the cast is amazing; I think the look and feel is really terrific,” he told IGN. “So let’s see what audiences have to say.”

The Borderlands movie just released in theaters today, August 9, and the film’s CinemaScore–a rating of what audiences thought of it–is not yet available. The film has a 29 on GameSpot sister site Metacritic and has been rated 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Also in the interview, Zelnick said the box-office performance of the Borderlands film has no financial impact on Take-Two one way or the other. The company that financed the movie is Lionsgate, not Take-Two.

Zelnick has a history in the filmmaking business, as he was the president and CEO of 20th Century Fox from 1989-1993 until he left to join the game developer Crystal Dynamics.

The Borderlands movie stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, Cate Blanchett, and Kevin Hart, and was directed by Eli Roth.