This movie is meant only for the mentally disturbed. I went for the movie knowing its story line and expecting no Academy stuff. I knew this was a movie where the omnipresent American hitchhikers encounter a "human-sacrificing cult". I knew there was going to be gore and cheap thrills. What i didn't knew was how boring it would all be. Three friends go to Mexico to do the "usual" things: get high, get laid. but one of them is kidnapped by the aforementioned cult because the head honcho of the cult believes that Satan would be pleased if they sacrifice some one after torturing the poor soul. the pleased Satan would enable their drugs to pass into the United States by making the drugs invisible to the custom officers. I mean, what the f**k where the script writers thinking? this must be the lamest excuse for the gore. As for the gore and blood, the best sequence which is truly hair raising is one in which one of the friends is chased through the length of the hotel in which he is staying by a machete wielding mob. The rest of the scenes are just pathetic. The director tries to give some back story so that we can "connect and identify" with the lame ass characters. but they still come across as clichéd. So kindly watch something else. Anything as long as it is not Borderland. For the lovers of violence, there still is no movie better than Martyrs. This pretentious sh*t is just that. a pretender. nothing more.
Review of Borderland
