Review - Predator: Badlands (2025)
Hey guys, Chuck here. Predator: Badlands, the latest film in the Predator franchise, is directed by Dan Trachtenberg, who returns to the series after his work on Prey , and stars Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. The movie tells the story of Dex, a young runt among the Yautja (which is the official name of the Predator species), who is sent to a deadly planet, where he teams up with a legless Weyland-Yutani synthetic named Thia to hint down a dangerous beast and claim his place among his race. As someone who's been hit-or-miss when it comes to these movies, as I personally enjoyed the original Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Predators with Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, and Prey with Amber Midthunder, I gotta say that Predator: Badlands was pretty damn awesome. The performances by Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi as Dex and Elle Fanning as both Thia and her twin synth...