Elle Fanning delivers one of the most disjointed performances of the year in “Predator: Badlands.” It’s not her fault — she’s a great actor. It’s just that she spends the majority of the movie in two pieces.
Fanning plays an android whose torso and legs have different trajectories in this ninth installment of the “Predator” franchise, an insane example of sci-fi action filmmaking that’s also equally split between slapstick humor and operatic violence.
It has perhaps one of the most bananas fight scene of all time when Fanning’s separate torso and legs take on some evil goons and combine to kill them all, crushing the last one’s skull and then high-fiving herself — with her hand slapping her foot in celebration.
Director and co-writer Dan Trachtenberg has merged a young, eager-to-pr

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