"Predator: Badlands, though, has a different approach: What if we're rooting for the Predator the whole time? The new movie is the third Predator adventure from director Dan Trachtenberg, who once again proves how possible it is for even the most dormant of franchises to come to life again. 2022's Prey, one of the best movies of that year, was a stripped-down cat-and-mouse game between Midthunder's 1700s Comanche warrior and a Predator whose own tech is more primitive than we've seen before."
"Badlands, meanwhile, flips the approach and finds something fresh and wonderful and bold as a result - as if James Cameron had made Terminator 2 entirely from the T-800's point of view. The movie begins on the planet Yautja Prime, where a young Yautja (the actual name for the Predator race) is facing his first hunt, which will confirm him as a member of his clan."
Dan Trachtenberg directs a third Predator film that reimagines the franchise by centering on a young Yautja named Dek. The film shifts audience alignment toward the Predator, presenting the alien as the protagonist rather than the antagonist. Prey previously simplified the franchise into a primitive-tech cat-and-mouse survival story, while Killer of Killers expanded the concept across eras. Badlands opens on Yautja Prime, where Dek faces his first hunt to secure clan status. Dek is physically smaller and weaker than his kin, disappointing his father, and he departs the planet to hunt a Kalisk on the remote world Genna.
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