This week we review and discuss Predator: Badlands, a science fiction action movie directed by Dan Trachtenberg and starring Elle Fanning, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi and Reuben de Jong about a young Yautja who embarks on an impossible hunt to earn his place in his clan, and encounters a synth on a similar mission.

We talk about whether the movie succeeds at fleshing out the Predators and whether telling a story from their point of view worked for us, whether it deserves its nearly universal acclaim and if it made us want to see more of the Yautja and their honor culture in future movies, how the movie handles its themes of found family and succeeding in spite of your heritage or whether that topic is played out, we try to understand why this movie was the most polarising for us in a long time and whether it was the movie's fault, and much more.

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