Director Dan Trachtenberg is now officially three for three with the Predator franchise. His amazing 2022 film Prey was a fresh take on the basic Predator tropes, only with a different time period and protagonist. His animated anthology, Killer of Killers , was another breath of fresh air into a tired series. But with Predator: Badlands , Trachtenberg proves there’s just about no one better equipped to handle this franchise. And in many ways, Badlands reinvents the franchise more than any other movie before it. The final result is another winner in a series many had written off years ago.

The reinvention comes in the form of our lead hero. Badlands does what none of the previous films in the series ever did before — they made the Predator the protagonist. On paper, this so

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