Predator: Badlands
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg7.386%95%7.8
In the future, on a distant planet, a young predator, recently exiled from his native clan, finds an unlikely ally. Together, they soon embark on an extremely dangerous and thorny journey to ultimately find their most fierce and cruel enemy.
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Predator: Badlands Ratings & Reviews
- darsanNovember 6, 2025just let dan trachtenberg cook with this franchise, this film has incredible action,score,visuals and story and I CAN'T WAITT FOR THE SEQUEL.
- turbob2413h agoInvigorating expanse of the franchise, great action and world building. Not sure about the comedy android tho...
- Van Aerschot David14h agoStrange but entertaining! Hope for another one!
- Realifecruella15h agoIt was awesome. Thought it will be stupid but it was opposite. Thought it will be more scary but wasn’t disappointed at all
- michael.b562November 10, 2025Entertaining, not boring at all
- Subash Ramone21h agoI'm really enjoying Dan Trachenburg's take on the predator franchise. Badlands is really fun to watch. Loved it.
- Chris CNovember 12, 2025Flipping the script and making the yautja/predator the protagonist works much better than you might expect. There are plenty of fun action scenes and even some genuine humor sprinkled in. I appreciated that only the head of the main character was CGI and practical effects were used for the body and the CGI used in general was very good. But there were just too many "wow, that sure was super convenient" things going on to pull me in quite as much as I hoped. Still, Dan Trachtenberg's first entry "Prey" was superb and this one is good enough that he should keep the keys to the Predator franchise for now.
- MelanieNovember 12, 2025This movie is a masterpiece. I love the predator franchise and this is by far the best one.
- nickassiNovember 22, 2025Brilliant copy and Brilliant film.
- ShaydeknightJanuary 7, 2026I went into Predator: Badlands expecting to hate it, but I had a genuinely good time watching it. This is also the first live-action Predator film that meaningfully explores Predator culture. We see how they live, how they speak, and how they see themselves. I am still conflicted about demystifying the Yautja this much, but I also recognize the necessity. The franchise has already exhausted the "Predator hunts humans, humans learn its tricks and kill it" structure. If Predator movies are going to continue, they have to evolve. Killer of Killers proved we were ready for a shift. Badlands takes a risk and mostly delivers. What surprised me most is how well the Alien and Predator universe overlap works here. Setting the story in the far future was a smart move. It creates enough distance from the classic Predator formula while letting the shared mythology breathe. The Weyland/Yutani presence and the android characters feel adjacent rather than stapled on, and it would not shock me if this film is quietly paving the way for a future crossover that actually understands both franchises instead of smashing action figures together. The universal translator plot device is an obvious cheat, but it is a sensible one. It allows the film to communicate ideas and relationships that would otherwise be impossible without endless subtitles or narrative gymnastics. As a storytelling tool, it works, and it never feels like the film is pretending it is anything other than a convenience. Yes, the movie leans hard into familiar tropes. The power of friendship is there. The feral outsider learning through companionship is there. There is more than a little Predator Rambo Tarzan energy running through the whole thing. None of this is subtle, and none of it is new. But it is executed with enough sincerity and momentum that I did not care. I enjoyed it. I ate it up. What really sells the film is its willingness to let the Predator be something other than a slasher monster. This Predator is still dangerous, still violent, still formidable, but it is also driven, wounded, and striving. That shift will annoy purists who want the creature to remain unknowable and terrifying. I understand that reaction. Mystery is powerful. But stagnation is death, and Badlands refuses to stagnate. OK, it's not a perfect film, and it gets a bit cheesy, sure, but it's earnest where some will want brutality. It is emotional where some will want dread. It's confident in its choices, and it feels like it knows exactly what kind of movie it wants to be. I expected a misfire. What I got was a fun and energetic Predator movie that proves the franchise still has room to grow, provided it's willing to take risks.
- theLillyPadJanuary 2, 2026This is EXACTLY the sort of movie you envisioned when you heard "Disney Predator Movie". It's vapid, tamed, neutered, watered down, quippy, garbage. Predator has always been about human ingenuity and mankind's ability to overcome the impossible. This movie is about the power of friendship and why hunting is bad. You read that right. One of the main themes of this movie is a condemnation on hunting. In a franchise called "Predator". I could have watched this exact tone of film from pretty much any major bland blockbuster in the past 5 years. Nothing connects it to the unique feel and atmosphere of its namesake other than the title. I mean... it's rated PG13. What more do you need to know?
- Tony BrownNovember 28, 2025Loved it boss can't wait for the next one in fact never seen a bad predator movie ever.
- Ben FearnleyJanuary 5, 2026Brilliant movie, especially since it's filmed from the predators perspective. Will rewatch again
- remii7d agoDelivers in all ways possible. It’s dramatic, well paced, inventive and witty. The set pieces are extraordinary, the Shakespearean storyline gives some epic to the backstory. The message tends to overlook some script details at times but overall the franchise is given a new breath. The only downside is the same as the series Alien, Earth : by flipping systematically the core concepts (the predator becoming the prey, what if monsters had feelings or a family...) it drifts so much from the original material that it could be any franchise. Replace it by any other franchise and it would still work. It's actually unsettling and brilliant at the same time : generic and yet exhilerating.
- SLAYERPRO67811d agoSub titles killed this movie. Slow paste and for a predator be that weak and then kill everybody just made no sense. I’ve seen better predator movies.
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Predator: Badlands Trivia
Predator: Badlands was released on November 5, 2025.
Predator: Badlands was directed by Dan Trachtenberg.
Predator: Badlands has a runtime of 1h 47m.
Predator: Badlands was produced by John Davis, Brent O'Connor, Marc Toberoff, Dan Trachtenberg, Ben Rosenblatt.
The key characters in Predator: Badlands are Thia / Tessa (Elle Fanning), Dek / Father (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), Bud (Ravi Narayan).
Predator: Badlands is rated PG-13.
Predator: Badlands is a Science Fiction, Action, Adventure film.
Predator: Badlands has an audience rating of 9.5 out of 10.