Review of Borderland (2007) by Christopher B — 20 Mar 2008

The reason this film must be called Borderland is because it's intention is to make everyone "boreder" than if they were to watch another film. However, it does answer the eternal question, "What if Hostel had sucked as much as everyone says it did".

Well, here's your answer. Basically the same characters, but played out how you'd typically expect them to be and treated in the plot the same way the characters would be in any other film. Unlike Hostel SPOILER: where the comic relief is killed first, the hero second and the asshole last, this is in the exact order you would expect it.

Also, unlike Hostel, the characters develop and grow in no inconceivable way throughout the entire running time. However, despite being so close near the beginning that it is more of a remake than most official remakes, it veers off into complete boredom by the end.

A cult, a renegade cop, a tough but beautiful woman and the pacing of a sign off card at the end of a television stations broadcast day make this quite a chore to sit through. One good point though, I thought Sean Astin was great in his role as a scumbag.