Predator Franchise – Matthew Liedke on Film

I know we’ve seen a Predator team up with a human-like character before, but now it’s actually in a good movie.

In a spin on the normal structure, the protagonist of “Badlands” is a predator. Their species is actually called Yautja and the hero of the movie is Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Kolomatangi). Considered a runt of his Yautja clan, Dek’s father decides he needs to be killed off for the good of the tribe, but the young warrior is saved by his brother and sent to a world where he can prove himself.

There, he must hunt the dangerous apex predator known as Kalisk, but the planet is extremely dangerous. Fortunately for him, he meets a damaged, but functioning, android named Thia (Elle Fanning) who promises to help him. They begin a journey together and soon learn there’s more danger out there than just the wildlife.

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The fifth film in the “Predator” franchise is a blast from the past, with the alien hunter attacking warriors in the 1700s, rather than the present day.

In the Great Plains, during the year of 1719, a young Comanche woman named Naru (Amber Midthunder) has hopes of being a hunter like her brother Taabe (Dakota Beavers). For most of her life, she’s been relegated to being a healer, yet she continues to train for an opportunity that might come one day where she will use her skills.

That opportunity ends up happening in the form of a Predator alien. Naru begins finding strange tracks and fierce animals who’re killed, meaning there’s something dangerous out there. Knowing the threat posed to her tribe, Naru sets out to battle the threat.

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