Early reviews of A Minecraft Movie suggest it's better than expected

In a nutshell: A Minecraft Movie, the live-action-with-CGI adaptation of the best-selling video game of all time, is released this Friday. The pretty underwhelming trailers led to plenty of people calling this the next Borderlands, but according to early reviews and first impressions, it's actually… okay. Movie adaptations of video games have come a long way since Bob Hoskins and John Leguizamo horrified the world with Super Mario Bros. in 1993. But while Hollywood does pump out the likes of Sonic the Hedgehog these days, there are painfully bad adaptations like Borderlands, which has a 10% Rotten Tomatoes score, still being made. The trailers for Minecraft, starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa, led plenty to believe this would be another poor cash-in with no reverence for the source material. But apparently not. Reviews ahead of Friday's release range from it being "good, actually" and "surprisingly specific and funny," to "baseline entertaining" and not actively boring. Even often- ... Read full article.