"Predator: Badlands," in theaters Friday, uses the previous eight films to inspire a story with a sympathetic alien hunting on a planet deadlier than Earth.

"Predator: Badlands," in theaters Friday, uses the previous eight films to inspire a story with a sympathetic alien hunting on a planet deadlier than Earth.

The toothy villain is humanised and made sympathetic in this disappointing horror sci-fi – at which point it ceases to be the Predator