150 Word Review: 'Predator: Badlands' (2025)
The littlest Yautja
Predator: Badlands is writer-director Dan Trachtenberg’s attempt to shake up the 38-year-old sci-fi franchise. He’s proven he can do it: 2022’s Prey, which pits the title hunter against a Native American woman, and this year’s animated Predator: Killer of Killers showed he knows how to tweak a formula.
In this movie, Trachtenberg wants to flip the genre script and introduces a scrawny Predator on a revenge mission to hunt a beast on a “death planet” crawling with hungry vines, exploding worms, and pineapples that shoot poison darts.
For the first time, a Yautja (that’s the Predator species, non-nerds) is the hero, plus there’s an Alien crossover. Our rogue Predator befriends a chatty, legless android (Elle Fanning) from the xenomorph-obsessed Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Predator: Badlands lacks the simple meathead charms of the original. This is a CGI monster movie, only the monster designs are *yawn*. But the Predator looks cool as hell.
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