Predator: Badlands is both the beneficiary and the victim of its own scope. A relentless barrage of well-choreographed and designed action scenes, Dan Trachtenberg's third entry into the franchise is nothing if not propulsive. Appreciably, the film is forging its own path within the larger canon, avoiding much of the temptation for fan service that films of this ilk can fall prey to. But there's a lack of depth to the proceedings, with its more tantalizing themes brusquely shoved into the margins.

Previous Predator films have used their hard sci-fi and horror genre trappings to expound upon juicy sociological and political questions of the day. John McTiernan's 1987 original was a reflection of foolhardy American exceptionalism as it fought an invisible enemy in the form of communi

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