'Predator Badlands' Goes Soft and It’s Glorious

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Like any red-blooded American, I was a fan of the original 1987 Predator starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Beyond that, the franchise succumbed to sequelitis ( Predator 2 ), franchise-itis ( Alien vs. Predator , Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem ), and then reboot-itis ( Predators , The Predator ). Some of them weren’t bad — the first Alien vs. Predator was good schlocky fun, and I didn’t actively dislike Shane Black’s 2018 entry as much as others did.

But with 2022’s Prey , Dan Trachtenberg made arguably the first great Predator film. He didn’t just reinvent the franchise — pitting a warrior of the Comanche Nation against one of the first Predators to land on Earth — he also made it releva

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