While video game adaptations are historically among the worst sub-genres in all of movies, their reputation has started to improve in recent years thanks to films like The Super Mario Bros. Movie, Sonic the Hedgehog, and especially TV shows like The Last of Us. It almost felt like video game adaptations were becoming respectable for a minute there! The release ofEli Roth’s Borderlands may do something to swing the pendulum back in the other direction. Shot way back in 2021, this film based on a popular action series, features material reshot by a director other than Roth, and its original co-w…