7.7
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Action, Science Fiction, Adventure • 2025 • 107 min • Teen (13+)
Predator: Badlands (2025)
Predator: Badlands (2025)
Overview
Predator: Badlands is a 2025 sci-fi action sequel in the Predator franchise, directed by Dan Trachtenberg. On a remote future planet, young exiled Predator Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) forms an alliance with human Thia (Elle Fanning) to hunt a formidable foe.
Starring Cast
Elle Fanning • Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi • Ravi Narayan
Where to watch
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Progressive
Political: Leans Left
Diversity: High
LGBTQ: Neutral
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Viewer Rating
7.7
Overview
Predator: Badlands is a 2025 sci-fi action sequel in the Predator franchise, directed by Dan Trachtenberg. On a remote future planet, young exiled Predator Dek (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi) forms an alliance with human Thia (Elle Fanning) to hunt a formidable foe.
Starring Cast
Elle Fanning • Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi • Ravi Narayan
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Progressive
Primary
Political: Leans Left
Confidence: High
Dek's outcast status in a strength-obsessed society highlights the problem of rigid patriarchy, resolved through alliances emphasizing empathy and diversity over isolation and brute force. This narrative approach aligns dominant themes with progressive critiques of traditional power structures.
Diversity: High
Confidence: High
Casting features Polynesian and South Asian performers in key non-human roles alongside a white female lead, highlighting ethnic diversity in a franchise traditionally centered on human protagonists. The narrative critiques patriarchal rejection of empathy and diversity, portraying such attitudes as flawed and leading to failure, while alliances across differences drive success.
Secondary
LGBTQ: Neutral
Confidence: High
Predator: Badlands presents a queer-coded lead character through themes of emotional vulnerability and non-traditional masculinity, framed empathetically without central focus on identity. The story avoids stereotypes or harm, balancing incidental elements in a sci-fi adventure emphasizing friendship and growth.
Family Values: Strongly Progressive
Confidence: High
The narrative undermines traditional clan hierarchies by depicting a tyrannical father who culls the weak and executes dissenters, while celebrating chosen families formed through empathy, loyalty, and protection as the ideal bonds. This rejection of biological ties in favor of alternative alliances drives the story's core emotional arc.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: High
No transsexual characters or themes appear in Predator: Badlands. The story follows Dek's arc from exile to proving his worth as a warrior alongside Thia, focusing on survival and camaraderie without addressing transgender identity.
Female Combat: No
Confidence: High
Female characters Thia and Tessa, both synthetics played by Elle Fanning, participate in action but do not engage in or win close-quarters physical combat against male opponents. Thia supports the protagonist in survival efforts, while Tessa employs technological aids like a power loader and is defeated by the male lead Dek.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: High
Predator: Badlands centers on original characters, including a male Yautja protagonist Dek and female synthetics Thia and Tessa, without any gender alterations to established franchise figures.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: High
Predator: Badlands centers on new Yautja characters and synthetic androids, with no human roles drawn from prior franchise installments, resulting in no instances of race swapping.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.8
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8.6
7.1
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