Borderlands is sadly in the running for one of the worst films of the year after taking nearly a decade to get off the ground.

Based on a popular series of video games with fun looter-shooter mechanics and a fresh space Western setting, Eli Roth’s feature-length adaptation runs the concept dry with flaccid action set pieces, painful dialogue and characters you’ll be glad to see the back of.

We follow bounty hunter Lilith (inexplicably played by a bored Cate Blanchett), who’s tasked by…