10 Huge Recent Movie Moments That Fell Totally Flat

10. Lilith Becomes Firehawk - Borderlands

Eli Roth's risible Borderlands adaptation climaxes with hero Lilith (Cate Blanchett) revealing that she's actually the Firehawk - an ancient being with godlike abilities.

In this case, it allows her to sprout fiery wings and kick plenty of ass, except the moment ends up failing to thrill because the VFX are not that great to say the least.

Lilith's transformation sequence looks initially passable, but the fire-wings themselves basically look like phone filters awkwardly slapped onto footage of Cate Blanchett inexplicably gliding through the air. 

For a $120 million production, it looks unacceptably gaudy and garish.

Even accepting that fans of the games were likely waiting impatiently for the reveal that Firehawk is Lilith rather than Tiny Tina (Ariana Greenblatt), it wasn't exactly tough for non-gamers to figure out the "twist" either, given that one of the trailers freely showed the "money shot" of Lilith baring fire-wings.