Predator: Badlands , the newest entry into the 38-year-old franchise and the third Predator movie directed by Dan Trachtenberg, is a PG-13 story about a young Predator alien named Dek, who’s rejected by his father for being a runt. The story, as in many Predator movies over the years, is about a less-powerful warrior overcoming inherent disadvantage to prevail over enemies. But in this case, it’s a Yautja—in other words, one of the Predators himself—who’s doing it, not a special forces guy , an LAPD officer , a mercenary who used to be a special forces guy , or a former Army Ranger . (There are, in fact, no special forces guys at all in this one, or in either of the other Trachtenberg Predator films, 2022’s Prey or 2025’s animated anthology, Predator: Killer of Kill

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