The new movie "Predator: Badlands" is the eighth Predator movie in the ongoing franchise that started with the original Predator released in 1987. Two of these movies were crossover films: Alien vs. Predator (AVP) (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (AVPR) (2007). Since the first two movies released in 1987 and 1990 the majority of the other movies have been either average or bad, and were all about trying to maximize the money created from a great science fiction character invented in the first film.
This new movie, for the first time in all of these movies attempts to give some real emotions, and humanity to these horrible aliens who just want to hunt and kill living creatures as trophies. This time around the main alien Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) is banished to a distant alien planet and becomes friends with a Robot girl Thia played by Elle Fanning. Due a a spaceship crash, Thia, who works for a company called Weyland-Yutani Corporation, has been cut in half and spends a good part of this movie in this halved condition, being carried around by her alien friend Dek. They later befriend another alien creature Bud (Ravi Narayan) and start a quest to find and kill a huge alien creature and bring his head home to his father, who in a rage, killed Dek's brother at the start of this film.
There are attempts at humor in this movie, very unlike all of the other Predator films, mostly with the very likeable Thia, as she tries to understand Dek. The ending is mostly like the climaxes of the other Predator movies, with someone getting decapitated and a huge sword fight and many explosions.
The very high Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 85% seem way too high for a movie that is definitely better than all of the other Predator movies, except the first two, but mostly just above average with good special effects and not much else. My rating is a very marginal recommendation of 70%, mainly for die hard Predator fans.
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