Predator: Badlands Review: A Fun Popcorn Flick

It is odd reviewing a popcorn action, sci-fi flick, but here it goes. Any review of Predator: Badlands should point out that it did what it set out to do: provide some fun action sequences, silly jokes, and a weird science fiction universe. Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi provide the acting and voice acting for the main characters, a cyborg (synthetic in the film) and an alien. They band together to survive a predator-filled wasteland called Genna (Gehanna, get it?) and then survive the heartless corporation that seeks to profit from it.

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Predator: Badlands Acting

The acting works. Elle Fanning successfully navigated the "half of a body," quirkiness, and kindness of her character, Thia, and her evil sister, Tessa. The voice acting from Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi was also strong. Not a lot to focus on here.

Predator: Badlands Review, Rating, and Ranking In Brief

Review: The film works. It isn't the world's best film, nor is it the worst. It achieves what it sets out to do: provide some entertainment. It does seem to want the epic scale of a Dune while adding influences from 80s action flicks like the original Predator (one sequence toward the end is clearly the inverse of the Predator ending), samurai films, and Holy War-esque scale battles.

Rating: 3/5

Ranking: 25/36 (Ranking in the total number of films I've seen in the theater in 2025)

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