Predator: Badlands (2025) Reviews & Ratings

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Predator: Badlands reviews

Predator: Badlands holds a 7.8/10 average from 3,783 TMDB ratings.

FULL SPOILER-FREE REVIEW @ https://movieswetextedabout.com/predator-badlands-movie-review-dan-trachtenberg-earns-the-franchise-keys-by-flipping-the-hunt/ "Predator: Badlands is an audacious exercise in reinvention that takes a risk and triumphs. The movie excels in every technical department, featuring a spectacle of creature design and sound work, and offering a new thematic vision for the saga's longevity. Elle Fa…
— Manuel São Bento (7/10)

Predator: Badlands is the first Predator film since 2022’s Prey. It is also the second Predator-related media released this year. Hulu’s animated anthology film, Predator: Killer of Killers, is now streaming. All three titles were directed and/or written by Dan Trachtenberg. Badlands follows Dek, a young Predator who yearns for his father's approval but struggles to escape the shadow of his bigger and older brother…
— Chris Sawin (9/10)

“Dek” is the runt of the “Yautja” clan so his militaristic father has asked his elder brother “Kwei” to get rid of him. Luckily, his brother isn’t so brutal and so with an impossible task on his hands to prove his worth, “Dek” manages to escape to a planet where he seeks to make a trophy from the menacing “Kalisk”. Thing is, this place is riddled with all sorts of flesh-eating monsters and plants so his own survival…
— CinemaSerf (6/10)

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.

Movies like Predator: Badlands

If you enjoyed Predator: Badlands, these movies have a similar feel:

• Predators (2010)
• No Retreat, No Surrender 2: Raging Thunder (1987)
• Venom: The Last Dance (2024)
• Prey (2022)
• AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
• Riddick (2013)
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
• Aliens (1986)
• Primeval (2007)
• Alien Resurrection (1997)
• Predator 2 (1990)

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