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Borderlands (2024) | Review


2024. PG-13. 101 mins. Directed by Eli Roth

Plot: An infamous bounty hunter returns to her childhood home, the chaotic planet Pandora, and forms an unlikely alliance with a team of misfits to find the missing daughter of the most powerful man in the universe.

Grade: D-

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