The Borderlands movie has just arrived in theaters, and like clockwork, preorders are now open for its upcoming Blu-ray release. In fact, there are two different steelbook editions for the 4K Blu-ray release. Amazon’s exclusive steelbook features Claptrap and costs $35. Meanwhile, Walmart’s exclusive steelbook showcases key art from the film and is up for preorder for $40. Regardless of which one you choose, you’ll get 4K Blu-ray and standard Blu-ray discs as well as a digital version of the movie. You could watch Borderlands once in each format, or you could just admire the cool steelbook cases (especially Amazon’s Claptrap exclusive).
This is a pretty good-looking steelbook case to pick up–currently priced at $35–and it looks like it was pulled straight from the Borderlands video games. It even comes with a 4K version of the film and a digital code to stream the movie, just to prove that there is no escape from Eli Roth’s version of Pandora.
Borderlands 4K Blu-ray with Steelbook (Amazon)
$35
The Amazon-exclusive case emulates the roughed-up design of Claptrap, a motor-mouthed disservice droid voiced by Jack Black in the movie. On the inside, there’s some battle damage in the shape of an Eridian vault symbol, and for the special features, there’s a nice selection of behind-the-scenes documentaries detailing how the film was made. Here’s the full list, which you’ll get whether you preorder from Amazon or Walmart:
- Borderlands: From Game to Screen
- Meet the Team
- All Aboard the Death-Choo-Choo
- Bringing Borderlands to the Screen
- Badonkadonk Time
- Fashion and Action on Pandora
- High-tech Hellscapes
Borderlands 4K Blu-ray with Steelbook (Walmart)
$40
As you can see above, Walmart’s exclusive edition features characters from the film on both the outside and inside of the case. One other difference between the two versions is disc art. The 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray discs feature different designs at each retailer.
Early reviews to Borderlands have not been great so far, with several outlets calling it a disappointing adaptation that fails to capture any of the charm from the games. Borderlands has a Metascore of 27 on GameSpot’s sister site Metacritic and has been rated 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.
“For most of its length, Borderlands is just unremarkable, the sort of thing that fades from the mind so quickly that it’s actually difficult to dislike it with any real intensity,” Phil Owen wrote in GameSpot’s Borderlands movie review.
