Predator: Badlands

Predator: Badlands is fun in the way the better Predator movies that aren’t the great Predator or Prey generally are, good action, fun additions, some good jokes, too much going on overall compared to a simple elegant idea.

To be fair the basic idea here, Predator protagonist. would be hard to sustain for a couple of hours, and has kind of been done (not as well) in those crossover movies as well as outside media going to the original Alien Vs. Predator comic series they sprang from.

Also nice to see a killer planet movie.

IMAX didn’t really help with some of the CGI fights in the dark, so boo to that.

And like Prey and especially Killer Of Killers -

I think it would be okay to let us have a happy ending and not immediately undercut it in the credits.

That kind of soured me on a fun ride, coming at the end and all. At least this one was a gag.

I did like the Jaws moment.