The reviews of Eli Roth’s Borderland Adjustments are made, and surprise! It’s not good.

First announced in 2015, Borderland The film went through several revisions and some delays during its nine-year production run.

Leigh Whannell, the author of the original Seen and all three Insidious Films (and director of two criminally overlooked films, Update and 2020 The Invisible Man), was originally supposed to both write the screenplay and direct the film, until he was unceremoniously dropped.

It also seems that Craig Mazin, now best known for his work on the award-winning TV show Chernobyl and the extremely well-received adaptation of The last of uswas also supposed to write the screenplay for Borderlands at some point during pre-production, but is not credited in the final version (apparently because he asked for his name to be removed).

Finally, the film was extensively re-shot in January last year. Dead Pool Director Tim Miller when Eli Roth was in the middle of filming the movie Thanksgiving.

Because of all of these production problems, as well as the negative reactions to the previews and casting announcements, the Internet assumed the film would be a flop… and according to virtually every review that has been written so far, the Internet was correct in its assumption.

Clarisse Loughrey of the Independent got off to a strong start with her one-out-of-five star review: “Borderlands is a disaster” and blamed “completely miscast actors and an incomprehensible script” for the terrible score.

Dan Jolin of Empire was a little nicer in his 2/5 review, calling the film a “sloppily put-together” movie and describing it as a “botched Guardians wannabe that isn’t half as much fun as you’d hope from its punky sci-fi promise.”

To be honest, I’ve been looking for a long time for a review that wasn’t all negative, and the best one I could find is this one by Jayanty Nada Shofa of the Jakarta Globe, who described it as “pretty okay.”

Glowing praise. I wonder if they will print that quote on the poster?