Predator: Badlands

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"Predator: Badlands is an audacious exercise in reinvention that takes a risk and triumphs. The movie excels in every technical department, featuring a spectacle of creature design and sound work, and offering a new thematic vision for the saga's longevity.

Elle Fanning's superb performance and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi's powerful physicality ensure Dek's journey the creature who forgoes the Yautja code of honor in search of a deeper, collective capability won't leave anyone indifferent. If there were still doubts that Dan Trachtenberg deserves the keys to the franchise, they...

Predator: Badlands is the first Predator film since 2022s Prey. It is also the second Predator-related media released this year. Hulus animated anthology film, Predator: Killer of Killers, is now streaming. All three titles were directed and/or written by Dan Trachtenberg.

Badlands follows Dek, a young Predator who yearns for his father's approval but struggles to escape the shadow of his bigger and older brother Kwei. Their father, viewing proud Yautja lineage as something reserved for only the strongest, sees Dek as weak and uselesswanting him dead to preserve the familys honor. Deks perceived weakness, being the runt, drives both his fathers harsh stance and Deks desperate need to prove himself.

However, Kwei believes Dek deserves ...