Predator: Badlands

Predator: Badlands Review: A Bizarrely Violent Spectacle

Predator: Badlands gets you with its psychedelic thunderbolts. This one appears to be running towards something rather than escaping from it. Dan Trachtenberg broadens it outward—same basic pulse, larger sky. Elle Fanning is a real standout here. She slips into Thia, a Weyland-Yutani synthetic, and bounces between this upbeat field assistant and someone locked into cold mission mode. The real issue isn’t about her programming—it’s whether anyone can actually tell what she is. Every time she shifts gears, it feels almost like a pulse. When she’s patching up a wounded Yautja  | Click Here...