‘Predator: Badlands’ Review: The Best ‘Predator’ Since the First Film

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If you don’t know it already Google “original Predatordesign” and take a gander at the results. You’re looking for the thing that looks like a cross between a giant cockroach and a cheap lawn decoration you’d buy at Spirit Halloween.

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Bear in mind: This wasn’t some early, rejected concept art. They actually took thatsuit to the set of 1987’sPredator in the jungles of Mexico. Carl Weathers tried to fight it. Jean-Claude Van Damme got inside it and attempted to performs stunt in it. (Guess how well that turned out.)

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Eventually, the filmmakers came to their senses, shut down production while they fixed the problem, and went back to the drawing board. That process eventually gave us thenow famous creature design by Stan Winston and his effects team. But even the A+ Predator of that first film had limitations. It was heavy. It was hot. It was impossible for the actor inside, Kevin Peter Hall, to see where he was going. The Predator’s signature cloaking technology is certainly a cool gadget, but it was also a solution to a filmmaking problem: How do we make this bulky immobile suit a terrifying onscreen presence? The answer was to avoid showing it for as long as humanly possible, a la Steven Spielberg’sJaws.

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I thought about that oldPredator suit a few times in the beginning of Predator: Badlands, which introduces its title character in the midst of a ferocious sword fight.This Predator leaps, spins, and falls around a massive underground cave as itexchanges fluid martial arts moves withanother Predator alien. It never turns invisible —in this scene or in most of the movie, because this character, a warrior named Dek, has yet to earn his cloak from his clan.

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But it’s not just that this Predator isn’thidden fromview during the action sequences. He’sBadlands’ main character. The film hinges onDek’s emotional arc. After this opening battle, the cameranarrows in onhis face, with that signature toothy Predator maw, as it expressesa whole rangeof emotions: Rage, fear, pride, confusion. I assume these images are created with a combination of practical prostheticsor animatronics and some digital effects — but however it was done, it looks soconvincing that the viewer simplyaccepts it as a living, flesh-and-blood creature.

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In other words, special effects of technology has come a long way in 35+ years since Predator.But a lot of absolutely awful movies have been made in that time with impressive special effects.Predator: Badlands is a special film precisely because it uses those technological advances to tell a genuinelyabsorbing adventure story involving these characters. Here is aPredator film that is ultimately about humanity — in which there are absolutely no human characters onscreen.

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Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is considered the “runt” of his Predator clan,underestimated and dislikedby the other “Yautja” aliens, except his brother Kwei (Mike Homik). Theirmassive, toweringPredator dad (also portrayed bySchuster-Koloamatangi, ironically)considersDek weak. And Predators do not abide weakness.

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That’s how Dek winds up on Genna, the deadliest planet in the galaxy, hoping to earn his clan’s approval by killing a supposedly unstoppablemonster known as “the Kalisk.” Badlandsdirector and co-writer Dan Trachtenberg observes Dek as he marshals his supplies and advanced weapons, including a plasma sword and an energy-based bow and arrow, and begins to acclimate to Genna’s harsh environment. At a distance, the place looks gorgeous. Up close, it’s full of man-eating plants, grass as sharp as razors, and strange creatures that spew poisons.

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Theseearly scenes make for an amusing sort of Predator procedural,as Trachtenbergonce again makes visible theelements of thePredatormythology and methodologythatwere typically kept off-screen in the earlier films, becausetheir stories were mostly about the aliens’ prey. As he explores Genna, Dek, who was raised by his fellowYautja to live a life of lonely self-sufficiency, winds up with a pair ofcomedic sidekicks, including Elle Fanning as an impossibly cheerful android, who begin to (veryreluctantly) teach him the value of community and family.

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It’s a use of thePredator concept that’s both totally surprising and yet totally logical. And yet even amidst a lot of humor and a small dollop of sentiment, Trachtenbergstill manages to maintain the ferocity one expects from a former Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicleabout an invisible alien hunter who kills for sport. Badlandsis emotionally and physically brutal at times, with some of the more gnarlyaction sequences that have ever been featured in this franchise. But the economical script byPatrick Aison also finds ways for Dek’s actions to express some ideas about this creature, and ultimately ofall ofour shared Darwinian existence. Even elements like theKalisk’s unique abilities in combat reflectPredator: Badlands’ themes about brotherhood and finding strength in unity rather than solitude.

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In some ways,Predator: Badlands is thePredator franchise’s answer to James Cameron’sTerminator 2.It’s not quite that massive in scope or as astonishing in terms of sheer bravura filmmaking. But it definitely recalls thatsequel in terms of its ideas and its structure,especially in the way it manages to turn aninscrutable, nigh-indestructible villain into a complicated but sympathetic protagonist without betraying what madethat central character so special in the first place.

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Yes, this is yet another sequel to a long-running, nostalgia-driven intellectual property controlled by a massive corporation. But within the rules prescribed by that sort of filmmaking,I don’t think you’re going to find a much more inventive use of a franchise than Predator: Badlands.This is not just a cheap rehash of the story beats of anearlier film. It is not a legacyquel that trots out a few beloved old characters to bestow their blessing on a new generation. It takes the core elements of this concept and reconfigures them into something new.

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This is Dan Trachtenberg’s thirdPredator, following 2022’s inventive prequelPrey and this year’s animated anthologyKiller of Killers. I’ve never met the man, but based on what he has done with this franchise, he strikes me as someone who adoredPredator as a kid — maybe even more than its sometimes only-just-okay films deserved — and spent years thinking about the property’s untapped potential and imagining what his ideal film based on the concept could look like. WithPredator: Badlands, I think he finally made it.

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Additional Thoughts:

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-I was so excited byPredator: Badlands that after I got home from the theater I immediately put on Trachtenberg’sPrey —and was struck by the very obvious and intentional parallels that he clearly baked into both films. (Both begin withnearly identical shots from inside atent or cavethat trackout into an expanse of wilderness; both share similar opening title designs.)I can’t wait to see the YouTube video putting all these elements side by side.

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-I didn’t know Predator: Badlandswas rated PG-13 — or that there was some hand-wringing on the internet over that fact —until after it was over. The joke is truly on anyone who skips this movie because they think it won’t be gnarly enough for aPredatorfilm. It’s packed with violence, a lot of it pretty damn gory. (At one point the Predator just stands still and lets an alien monster run at him and cut itself in half on his plasma sword. Then the Predator grabs its split-in-twain entrails and hoists them to the sky in triumph.PG-13!) That actually strikes me as a rather ingenious exploitation of the MPAA’s own nonsensical rules about bloodshed. There’s plenty of viscera splashed around — but it‘s all green or purple or milky white, because the characters are aliens and androids instead of humans. Creatures are slaughtered, aliens are beheaded, starbeasts are ripped apart from the inside… but none of them are human and no one bleeds red blood. Soooooo…PG-13?

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-I didn’t know Predator: Badlandswas rated PG-13 — or that there was some hand-wringing on the internet over that fact —until after it was over. The joke is truly on anyone who skips this movie because they think it won’t be gnarly enough for aPredatorfilm. It’s packed with violence, a lot of it pretty damn gory. (At one point the Predator just stands still and lets an alien monster run at him and cut itself in half on his plasma sword. Then the Predator grabs its split-in-twain entrails and hoists them to the sky in triumph.PG-13!) That actually strikes me as a rather ingenious exploitation of the MPAA’s own nonsensical rules about bloodshed. There’s plenty of viscera splashed around — but it‘s all green or purple or milky white, because the characters are aliens and androids instead of humans. Creatures are slaughtered, aliens are beheaded, starbeasts are ripped apart from the inside… but none of them are human and no one bleeds red blood. Soooooo…PG-13?

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RATING: 8/10

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From action-packed or comedy-driven genre switch-ups to meta re-imaginings, these horror movie sequels successfully and smartly reinvented their scary source material.

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