2025 · action · sci-fi · adventure
Predator: Badlands
Directed by Dan Trachtenberg1h 47m2025
Cast out from his clan, a young Predator finds an unlikely ally in a damaged android and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary.
Our read: Predator: Badlands (2025) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive action · sci-fi · adventure entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, extreme action / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- kinetic
- intense
- inventive
- epic-stakes
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