The Predator (REVIEW) | Projector | So bad it needs to be hunted down
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The hunt is back on as Shane Black revives the 80s franchise, but Film Brain has come for its spine...
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I was honestly far more excited to watch this review than the actual movie... and rightfully so.
In this case I'm glade I didn't go see this in theaters.
And rightfully so..it was beyond.
you made a right choice
> THE Predator
> Features TWO Predators
They couldn't even get that right
The jokes about 'predator' being a misnomer kind of go against the name as well.
@@TheBlackSpiral I agree with Decker Shado on that. How clever of them to mock the name...When no other movie has mentioned it In-universe. Really smart there by Black.
I have Tourettes myself, and while I don't necessarily mind the (admittedly stereotypical) depiction of coprolalia (which is frankly rare among people with Tourettes), what I did find baffling was his status as a mental patient in the US armed forces. I can tell you from direct experience that the US does not- ever- recruit people with Tourettes. I know because I tried to join up repeatedly after 9/11, and the recruiters I spoke with would not even let me fill out the paperwork, despite my having a college degree.
And having (somehow!) allowed him to join despite his obvious condition, why would he then be a mental patient? Because he had TS? The condition manifests when you are in early childhood. They HAD to know he had it when he signed up. Even if he didn't tell them, they would have spotted it in basic training. So how did he get to be a veteran? And TS is a neurological condition, not a mental condition. TS alone would not result in him getting institutionalized.
So many, many inconsistencies...
As a narcoleptic, I can relate to the popular perception vs. reality aspect of your condition.
@@blackderby80
Zzzzzzzzzzzz.....
Sorry, couldnt resist. 😋
@@kadejito1 uhh... What? I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention, I was busy daydreaming... Literally.
(While the condition isn't like what you see in movies, yes, it can be good for jokes)
Movie series often take strange twists and turns over their lifetimes, but the Predator franchise has always been its own uniquely bizarre case. John McTiernan’s 1987 original was an Arnold Schwarzenegger action vehicle that pitted a group of military commandos against an interstellar hunter that picked them off one by one. It brought with it all the one-liners, alpha-male posturing, and explosions that the decade demanded, and was enough of a hit to warrant a sequel. But three years later, Predator 2 failed at the box office, and the property lay dormant for 14 years. It eventually resurfaced as part of Alien vs. Predator, and while mash-up films are usually a creative death knell, the movie was enough of a sucess to warrant its own sequel. Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal tried to bring the whole thing back to life with 2010’s Predators - and then once again, things got quiet.
Predator is the little franchise that could: never delivering a sequel that’s a true home run, but always doing just well enough to warrant another turn at the box-office bat.
But with The Predator, filmmaker Shane Black is attempting to put the franchise back in the spotlight. Originally known for writing movies like Lethal Weapon and The Last Action Hero, Black has since become known as a dual-threat writer-director, combining action and comedy with films like Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys. (He coincidentally has a history with the Predator franchise as well, having appeared as an actor in the first film.) Along with co-writer Fred Dekker (The Monster Squad, Robocop 2), he tries to turn The Predator into an R-rated comic-action-horror hybrid, a movie that salutes the 1980s genre churn that spawned the original, while simultaneously trying to add its own idiosyncratic spin.
It sounds great in concept. A Shane Black rethink could theoretically give the franchise its own strong authorial voice and identity - the one thing it’s been missing ever since 1987. But to pull that off, the movie would actually need to deliver.
This is why I prefer Predators over this as the best modern day reinterpretation of the Predator franchise.
I loved the first and second act of Predators, but to me it goes down hill in the third act.
I didn't buy Laurence Fishburne as a decades-long survivor on that game preserve. I pictured someone looking old, skinny and disheveled (long hair & beard). Fishburne was depicted as clean cut and portly... Steven Lang would've been great.
I still say it's the second worst. Because it's so fucking mean-spirited to the old Predator movies. "Yeah these classical sissy predators? Yeah, fuck 'em. Theyr'e tools. Killed off in moments after being a helpless princess in another castle!" And listening to Not-Batman Throat Cancer Guy gets old quickly. And like a review said on imdb ages ago. "Fishburne doesn't look like a survivor. He looks like he ate a survivor." Though, I'll give the movie a point for the grassy field-battle.
@@jensaversjo316 Agree totally....I hated when the Classic Predator got owned.
@@nostaljah19 Yeah, like I know a friend said it was just "Introducing a new, badder threat" but it shouldn't be needed. The Pred is a goddamn badass. The OG Pred took down a bunch of elite soldiers like they were kids. But in Predators it's "Little wimp pred. ME MANLY SUPER PRED!"
My personal Ranking of the Predator Movies:
1. Predator (1987)
2. Predator 2 (1990)
3. Predators (2010)
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The Predator (2018)
(I don't count the two AvP Movies)
Can't say I blame ya'!
Lance Henricksen won't be happy.
bishop approves tho.
The hell he does.
I never get why AVP is so hated. I know many did not like the PG13, but I thought it was a pretty cool story, well acted, and good action...and the Alien queen was a good icing on the cake..what am I missing?
When you described the plot my only reaction was _"What?"_
Predator 1 and 2 focus on the story instead of floating off in other directions, like this movie clearly does with it's confusing story. They could have set this film in the Philippines, Afganistan, Burma or anywhere else.
The Predator is fucking terrible.
As an autistic myself, hearing that it's used as a plot device is making me rather weary of this one and I'm already disgusted with the whole Steve Wilder debacle, cut or none.
Yeah, that plot was quite dumb. I'll give them credit though, they went all in on it against all logic. It gets to the point that the severely upgraded Ultimate Predator says that the greatest warrior among a group of highly trained soldiers armed to the teeth is the unarmed, preteen, autistic boy. I am not joking!
"You have one true warrior among you".
I have Asperger's Syndrome and I initially thought that Jacob Tremblay was doing a good job at accurately portraying it. But as the film went on, the writing for his character got worse and worse. The moment in the class was a bit unbelievable, but I stopped buying his character once he wore the Predator mask for no reason. And when they had him become the target of the Advanced Predator, I just gave up.
In 1987’s “Predator,” Shane Black played Hawkins, the first person in the movie to be killed. Now he’s the director of the latest sequel, called “The Predator,” and his new film suffers the same fate as his old character: It dies - quickly.
The movie is a nonstop gore fest. (How many times do we need to see a man sliced in half and his innards cascade to the ground?) But that’s not what leaves you reaching for the Pepto-Bismol. More sickening is the repugnant humor.
Racially offensive quips, flagrant sexism and Tourette syndrome gags all contribute to this witless, scare-free junk.
In a particularly stupid move, one character describes the predator’s look as “an alien Whoopi Goldberg.” When a research team discovers that a new Predator has some human DNA, a biologist named Casey (Olivia Munn) says, “You want to know if somebody f - - ked an alien?” This isn’t bottom-of-the-barrel material, it’s bottom of the landfill.
I already assumed this movie would be bad because the first ad I saw for it asked me to click the screen while looking for hidden Predator icons.
I almost feel like there's a metaphor in desperately searching this movie for any sign of Predator somewhere, but I'm not clever enough to point it out.
Just make a Predator movie where the predator wins
Scream got Scary Movie....... Predator got The Predator...
Wow. I hope your patreon supporters are very generous with you because you're really giving them top quality work for someone simply standing in a corner.
This review was pretty cathartic after Brad and Brian gave this film a pass on the "It's fun!" basis. I don't mind someone getting entertainment out of this film, but they could have at least acknowledged more of the issues.
P.S. I'm guessing that Olivia Munn's introduction was the scene that Fox had to remove.
This was a quite a fast paced and energetic review as well. I enjoyed that.
Even if the reports hadn’t described the nature of the scene, you could tell that was where they made the cut just from how abruptly that scene in the park “starts” and ends.
Holy shit. As an autistic myself, I skipped this movie because it seemed like a cynical cash-grab by a dude who chums it up with sex pests, but to hear about the exploitation factor is, uhh...jarring, to say the least. Who the Hell thought PREDATOR was the franchise to tackle this material?? I can't wait for the next Tremors movie: I hear it's an allegory for the AIDs Panic!!
Cheers for sticking it to this pile.
Hmmmmm....everything I been hearing about THE PREDATOR (2018) kind of makes me want to go back and give PREDATORS (2010) another look..........
in my opinion, this movie suffers from the same problem as almost every major hollywood production from the last lets say 15 years... and that is lazy writing.. poorly developed characters, plot devices, deus ex machini and, since there's almost exclusively sequels and reboots, meaningless and sometimes downright stupid "fan service"
I flipped off the screen twice, when people used (or slightly changed) lines from the first one.
What made the original Predator so great was that the characters had no backstory. They were a complete mystery. In fact they were so much of a mystery that we didn't even care if the had a back story. All we knew is that they were a bunch of badasses. That's all we needed to know.
While it's ten million times better than AVP2 (and what isn't?) I have no idea what happened with this film coming from Black who can be relied on to deliver a consistent vision in his projects. It's an absolute mess switching between two or three incompatible tones/aims for the film scene by scene. It's as though they had three competing scripts with roughly similar but stylistically different movies, filmed all three then edited parts of each into a Frankenstein's monster.
17:22 ACTUALLY that wasn't CGI.
This is so simple why this doesn't work, and why after the original 1987 movie, they have progressively have got worse. The Predator films should have always been made to be dark, not that the first one was but it provided a platform to take what the Predators do to their human prey and explore the horrors of being hunted down by something we can't see, that is stronger, faster, more intelligent, and unwavering in it's resolve!
Gotta say, Matty, I think I disliked it more than you did. That whole autism subplot deserves to have 2 notches down my rating. Autism is neither a disability nor a superpower and what they did here boiled my blood. I’ve worked with people with autism and Tourette’s, among other similar issues, and to see it represented like this was shameful. The rest of the film was bad enough, as you’ve mentioned, but those were my huge take aways from that. I knew Black has Tourette’s but that doesn’t give him privileges to make fun of it the way he did when he, of all people, should have more empathy. The only thing I can say that’s nice are certain performances and a few ideas. Regardless of the controversy, it’s not worth seeing, even as a rental. It’s an easy 3/10. It’s the Alien: Covenant of the series.
Speaking of Alien, you know it’s in trouble when they decide to homage Alien3 of all things.
Don't you think that if Shane has Tourette's that him making fun of it wasn't malicious but instead making light of a pain he understands?
Grim Knight Ok, admittedly, I had more time to think about it and I don’t hate it as much as I did before. Heck, I rewatched it a few days ago and it’s a bit better. My new rating’s a 4/10. Perhaps I was a bit too harsh but I still think making light of an illness, regardless if you actually do have it, I don’t think it’s OK. It’s much different than a black man using the N word. Still, Thomas Jane’s actual performance was very accurate and he’s one of my favorite characters, despite the above.
F. N. Lorter That's fair enough, it was nice talking to you.
Geez I wish I was autistic. Then I wouldn't be just a socially awkward weirdo. I would have an excuse and Super powers.
Yah, I wanna upgrade my intellectual disability to movies idea of what a intellectual disability is. How many XP do I need for that?
Daniel Yerke It’s offensive to me.
@@ripleyjlawman.3162 I took out the the idiot part. I was trying to be self deprecating. Not make fun of autistic people.
It's speculated that some geniuses in history would have been on the spectrum, but I guess movies haven't learned how often that happens.
Except(ironically) the Accountant, for the most part.
Sam... why wouldn't autistic people be self depricating?
I honestly thought that the predator escaping form the lab scene was the best at this movie, he was vicious and quick on a kill, didn't mess around. I didnt like the idea of him shooting the gun, he had to come up with more Predator-ish way to kill soldiers but at least it showed that he wasn't dumb and was quick to make a decision. The predator looked just like i wanted and it was incredibly cool, It really gave a great hope that the movie would be awesome. Then it didn't happen...
Ivan Goriatchkine sooo true. This was end of the movie practically, after this, it is going to hell
Nah, it was shit even during that scene. 'He's heavily sedated'. That's no excuse for not properly restraining a *seven foot tall alien monster*
Still tried to enjoy, though...
Man I agree, these people decided to hold the Predator with their hands when even restrains wasnt effective. This is one big lazy writing.I was just saying i enjoyed the predator killing these people. Like it really showed how dangerous he is and it was so simple to show that. It looked like Shane was going in the right direction of what predator should be, and then it all just made a wrong turn
He originally wasn't going to die. Also because they screwed the third act up, it made no sense that they have a device that he left behind, this Predator was a bad guy I'm talking about the Fugitive Predator. That super-predator was way overdone. The fact that humans could beat him and the Predator couldn't was absolute garbage. If this was a serious Predator film, The Predator would have easily kicked the shit out of it.
Great review! Clear and coherent, unlike this mess of a films plot.
Too many obvious things stolen from other films. Too many things going on in general. A bit of Mercury Rising, a bit from Home Alone 3, and such a badly written script that's so cliche it actually gets on your tits. It makes everything predictable and pointless.
It's a really repetitive film that holds no weight in any scene.
The film isn't able to draw out a single emotion apart from frustration from it's audience. Unlikeable cast with atrociously written dialogue and ghastly careless reference lines thrown in that reminds us how much better the previous films did it. The CGI predator too... boy oh boy, completely lacking in physical presents like most crap CGI monsters, it has to be the worst predator to date! and that's saying something. Such a typical move these days turning to shitty cartoon CGI. IT DOSNT LOOK GOOD HOLLYWOOD!
Why do they feel the need to make one of the most interestingly intimidating Aliens in film history have so many gimmicks? Why in Predators did they feel the need to twist a psychopaths in the plot? Or schizophrenic characters to become villain? Or add super duper Predators that aren't even super? Why on earth do they feel a single Predator isn't a strong enough character to antagonize a film alone? It's silly.
both original Predator and Die hard are great masterful arts of action
so yes the director is a good one
i haven't seen this new predator yet..
but something in my heart tells me i will always love the original FAR more than this one
I think it's fair to describe this as the Alien: Resurrection of the franchise. But in all honestly, I didn't mind the more tongue-in-cheek approach and I did like the humour as hit and miss as it could get. My main problem with the film is that the editing is absolutely awful. Not only is the action cut to the point of incomprehensiblity, but the editing from scene-to-scene and moment-to-moment is really poor. There's just no connective flow to the film and scenes just kinda run into each other. It looks like it's been absolutely hacked to within an inch of its life. And I don't know whether to blame Black for the film's failings (especially for its more misguided ideas) or Fox since it's clear that they've just gotten in there and really interfered with it. I honestly thought that Fox had moved past those days with Tom Rothman out of the picture, but apparently not.
I'm thinking when the original director of Predator saw Shane Black's writing ideas, that was when he decided to make Black's character the first member of the team to die.
This Film 📽️🎥 Is An Insult to Me Because I Have Autism and ADHD...
So, it's a dumb down version of Predators with a sloppy plot.
this is a parody man I hope they don't do next movie I pray for this so fucking hard
As soon as I saw the monster in the very first minute of the film, I shook my head. You don’t just reveal your main monster like that in a brightly lit set. You build up the reveal; when it got into the jungle that should have been when we actually saw the full body of it. I nearly walked out when they spent like two minutes just standing there trying to be funny...
This was disappointing. Even freaking Alien vs Predator had far more stakes than this film.
@Film Brain
I think the other downfall of the predator storyline is the difficulty with the introduction of a new cast of "hopefully believable" actors as a certain sub-set of characters. The first film worked because the audience immediately assumes and is filled in lightly and intermittently about how each of the men have seen and done stuff that most could not do physically, mentally, and emotionally. It then cemented already present interpersonal relationships between several members of the team. No one wants to see friends get killed. People want to see them continue into the sequel and continue to have a fun time together kicking butt. It's kind of like everybody likes seeing a good buddy cop movie, but what if that really good buddy cop movie ended with both main characters dying in an emotional and painful way. It has weight to it. This movie, as all of the other predator movies, tries to show a group of kick-butt military/mercenary/assassin/gang/police/resourceful individuals group together as an attempt by the writer and director to setup the assumption for the audience that this group of characters should be able to stay alive, but we all know that they won't. The first worked because the formula worked. Each sequel has tried to copy-paste and that never works as it will always be watered down. (for the most part)
Went to the cinema to watch this movie, and I regret it. While I was sitting there I couldn´t figure out if this movie was a comedy, an action or even some kind of drama, or all those things together.
Now the best description that comes to my mind is that this film is a mix of The Expendables and Scary Movie.
I heard some people defending this movie by saying that is actually a comedy, but it doesn´t work that way either, at least not for me. Most of the jokes are gringe worthy and some gags run for too long...
He's on safari. The lions, the tigers, the bears... oh, my!
That one line in Predator 2 was better than this entire movie.
Glad to see ur back, but I kinda miss the old, louder, slightly unhinged Filmbrain. 🙃
Black & Decker lol.
Good one.
Damn, I want a t-shirt like that.
This is where the movie should have started, the ship chase, the crash, a team of elite solders encounter the predator near the crashed ship. The predator makes its way to the town where it is caught. The second Predator should not have come until the first one got back to its ship then the battle unfolds in the woods. NO CHILDREN NO DECODING OF LANGUAGES, AND NO HUMANS USE ALIEN TECH.
What a fantastic review! Couldn't agree more with the criticisms! Thanks!
I like the Predator franchise well except for the 2nd AVP movie. I'm also open to new ideas however this movie was horribly written and felt like it was a rushed mess with a lot of patchy action scenes and not enough explanation. This review pretty much explained my frustration with this sloppy film!!
I enjoyed your rant review break down... New subscriber here...
Excellent review. The worst bit for me was the Iron man suit at the end. I would really, really like Shane Black to answer all of the issues raised and give explanations to why it went so wrong.
Some directors make a deal to direct a film if the studio will green light a dream project for them. I wonder is that the case for The Predator?
What dream project does Shane Black have or have done to give us this?
@@LPTV84 Maybe he just hates Predator fans? Or humanity in general?
Shane Black did Iron Man 3 to get 'The Nice Guys' made [which had been kicking around since the early 2000's] and given that film flopped, he probably did this to get another passion project made. However, given Joel Silver [who made Nice guys and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang] has left his own company and the bomb this film was [and the casting controversy] that didn't happen and it'll be hard for him to get another one of his projects made.
Why, Hollywood? Oh, why can you just not let great films RIP?
This was an excellent review, you really highlighted the many serious issues with this film. Great stuff.....your review, not the film. Such a damn shame, this really had the potential to be a great movie. I was so disappointed.
Great job on this review I felt that this is the perfect non spoiler review for the movie and you do a great job breaking down the film.
After watching the trailers, that was enough for me, let alone spending money to waste 107 minutes on this mess.
I'm a big fan of Shane Black's other movies. Lethal Weapon of course, but also The Last Boyscout, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and The Nice Guys which was a comedic buddy movie masterpiece. I even loved Iron Man 3 (I know I'm in the minority.) The Predator was a huge disappointment. Film Brain articulated my misgivings perfectly.
The original was an action movie infiltrated by a stalker movie. This genre subversion was fresh and exciting. Seeing the musclebound action heroes' tactics and arsenal fail them in fighting the alien hunter, and reacting with a range of fear/denial, was fascinating. Only Arnold's Dutch character accepted the situation for what it was and did what was necessary. There was the slow cat-and-mouse of evolving ambush techniques, which stumped the soldiers and revealed more about the hunter's capabilities.
Design-wise, the creature was an interesting mashup of opposites. It's reptilian in nature but has advanced intelligence and humanoid anatomy; primal and advanced within it's own being. Then there's the advanced technology used for primal game hunting.
Pacing-wise, the original Predator revealed the hunter in layers. First, the heat vision POVs. Then, a hand here, a leg there. A cloaked silhouette shimmering against the jungle. When it lost it's cloaking, it still had a mask over it's face, which was the final reveal. So there was always something to discover, throughout the movie. Same with the first Alien film, with the creature's multi-staged life cycle that kept the humans guessing.
That said, I don't believe Predator is a sufficient framework to build an actual franchise around. Genre subversion is not a genre per se. Watching the hunter tearing through generic humans is not as appealing as watching it ruthlessly outmatch confident, charismatic warriors one by one, over a whole movie.
You just made my film sonar ping quite loudly.
Shane black wrote the last boyscout?!?
Love that movie!
This film was like The Undateables tv show, with a Predator thrown in, and the cast running towards it rather than away from it. Real mess. Do I get a cookie now?
Sounds just like Warner Bros. They've interfered with the directors vision, no surprise because I saw images last year that didn't feature in the movie which looked cool.
It's not WB, its Fox, who have a bad habit of doing this (see Fantastic Four). The trailers prominently feature a car chase that is not in the final film.
@@FilmBrain agreed but I mean Warner Bros. does the same with the DC Universe they interfere just like Fox interfere with there directors.
You don't have to trashily like Predator 2. It's genuinely great.
@Film Brain
I think the predator series of movies including aliens, USCM, androids, etc.. needs a complete cohesive reboot if any of the properties wish to survive another round of releases. This is coming from a fan that is simply concerned about some fun entertainment. Maybe show an individual predators story of survival (not just humans surviving the predators presence every movie, you can come back to it several movies down the road in an inventive way, but just not every movie), show a predator get stalked and hunted in a similar manner as the first movie by something else or even by humans and the predator has no weapons and has to be resourceful to survive which would show the true hunter prowess of the predators. Do a movie from the predators point of view. Same with the alien franchise. Ridley scott has said that he feels the alien creature is completely played out for how old it is and how familiar people are with the sight of it. I call bull on that and simply he is bored of the story. Go back to true confined spaces, jump scares even. Make it fun with its intensity letting the audience know that creatures like these (if they were real) would be scarier than trying to Eskimo kiss a great white shark. literally.
Well, Film Brain, get ready for Terminator 6: The Supposed Final Chapter.
Hey Mathew, I could have sworn you did a podcast with other people on this film. Am I confusing something or is the video elsewhere.
Not on this one. AVP: R was brought up on my Worst Films We Saw in the Cinema podcast, so that might be where the confusion comes from.
I always remember the first two movies as an action movie that had something to say about the violence men perpetrate against one another, but the first trailer to this one played it as if the predator is just a non-descript monster who could have being really anything. It may be a misleading trailer, of course, but it slipped down my list. It didn't atract me to watch the actual movie.
I wasn't going to see it anyway after hearing about Shane Black's, to put it kindly, dubious casting decision of his friend, but based on these reviews it looks like even without that awkward elephant in the room I'm still better off saving this Fandango voucher I got for donating blood last month just a little bit longer for something else. :/ This super disappointing, as I've enjoyed all the solo movies. I really like Predators. IMHO I think it was the best Predator movie since the first one.
why is everyone so surprised at a shitty product coming from 2 mediocre guys that haven't done much for being Hollywood players for over 30 years each
Iron Man 3 - worst one
Robocop 3 - worst one
Last Action Hero - although fun, it was a cornball parody, with terrible dialogue
Monster squad - (I love) but the plot is really dumb and full of holes
The Last Boyscout - really good movie, but really dumb story.
...and this mess of a movie
Predators was better than this film, period. Predators also had less than half the budget. The aliens in Predators in said more also looked more realistic.
Predator 2 was awesome.
The Batman & Robin of the Predator franchise. It's a Predator film that makes fun of itself at the expense of its fans. Beyond disappointing.
John Krasinski just made the best predator movie sense the first predator movie. And he did it on a 17 million dollar budget.
Am I the only one who didn’t like that film? It’s just a mess. Love his wife, though.
I bet you also noticed the cuts during the movie too.
Great catch on Predator 2 setting the mythology we accept as canon. It's a real fun sequel
instead of ragtag soldiers in civilian setting, put predator in afghanistan and marsoc runs across them. this way it goes away from a rural america, antarctica, the predator is drawn to heat and conflict so going to a war has a more predator feel to it. you could give arnold a role as dutch being a merc or a drill instructor for the sake of a 2.5 hour movie, more explosions. danny glover could be a merc even.
Great review!
Very intelligent review. 👍👍👍. Thank you for mentioning the terrible editing.
I think a child wrote this movie
Poor story
Trash actors
Enjoyed none of it and im a die hard predator fan
this movie needed Chris Hansen in the movie to takedown the predators
How do you compare this to when you saw Alien: Covenant?
Covenant is a better made film, but I got much angrier at it. This was a worse film technically than Covenant, but I was more underwhelmed than mad at it at the time, but going back over it made it worse in hindsight.
Personally I enjoyed this film more it wasn't trying to be great. Covenant was trying to be Shakespeare and it was nothing more than a generic sci-fi horror. The Predator is trying to be a dumb action movie (at least I thought so) that paints mental/neurological illness as a super power so it partially succeeded.
I feel that if the move was to be as good as the first PREDATOR it should have taken place in the jungle within hours of the explosion when Dutch is picked up. A Russian team is now finding the camp blown to hell, sent to find their people, they find a trail of Dutch's team exiting into the jungle, they follow the trail and find the remains of his team, BUT then they become the pray of the Predator, Another one of the three Predator hunting party. It is just finding the right actors and it writes its self.
It's just another fun action movie that no one will remember this time next year.
And on the Autism thing. The movie should have made the Rory character have Savant Syndrome. Which gives people super abilities in memory, language, calculations, and artistic talents. It is true that savants are on the Autistic spectrum, but the distinction is more appropriate to character.
Predator En-blighted
Please don’t be like Doug from nostalgia critic or Brad from cinema snob and shave your head! Keep your hair! We all love you!!!
Movie critics are bald. Deal with it
I'm pretty sure Doug's hairline receded so he shaved it. Which I like, can't stand men who try to hold to their hair as long as possible even if it makes them look like dickhead. There's nothing wrong with being bald and this is coming from a bloke with a full head of hair.
@@docmarten8269 Not Mark Kermode - he has a wonderful quiff
The new Predator movie was horrible.1st half felt like straight up comedy....the characters, plot, dialogue, everything was bad...the biologist chick all of a sudden turns into rambo jumping onto a bus handeling weapons like a pro...black guy in the crew smoking a cig literally every other scene including when they were being chased by the super predator in the woods...just an god awful movie
The guy that reviews this movie looks like Tim Vine lol
I actually enjoyed AVP and AVPR more than Predators 2010. I shall wait till The Predator comes on DVD before I watch it. From the reviews it seems that it wanted to be a black comedy but failed miserably.
I'll have to give this movie another watch, maybe i was hyping it up too much for myself, but i don't remember the last time i walked out of the cinema thinking wtf did i just see?!!?
As a genuine fan of the predator franchise I rate this worse than AvPR...or maybe on level terms; can't quite make up my mind. This is coming from someone who loves Predator 2...alot!
Hollywood lost it's touch long time ago .....
Have you ever seen the Predator: Dark Ages fan film?
I could listen to him talk shit about this movie all day.
The film was crap from start to finish.. It lacked any characters and the one liners were bordering on monotonous and got old very quickly.. I was like, when is this going to end because I can't stand it anymore and I was like 20 mins into the film.. The film seems to be directed at a younger audience so why the need for all the vulgarity which ruined the film. I mean pussy jokes? COME ON FOR PETE'S SAKES!!
The film looked like a rip off from 1980's block buster films such as E.T., Star Wars and Back to the Future.. Even the spaceships looked like something out of Battle Star Galactica... Then with the giant Predator and those awful looking predator dogs the film just sank after drowning itself in crap.. And why the need for films to have all these useless rapper turned actors? PLEASE STOP WITH THIS. And also I noticed that the supposed Predator's blood does not cause acid burn to human flesh anymore? It's like the director tried to copy the best bits from 1980's films which we've all seen before but then decided to take a huge dump in the film by adding a huge Predator upgrade with dogs which didn't work at all.. The franchise is now ruined for me so they should focus on making another Alien V Predator movie because the Predator franchise on its own is dead now..
Honestly, I'd say both franchises are pretty dead at this point. :/
this movie was fun and lite hearted. i think most people are taking it to seriously. i actually got mad at your review for the first time. the movie does have two main issues and you didnt even mention one of them.
1. the ending like you said
2. its take on suicidal behaviors and how it brushes it under the table.
Frankly, the assortment of actors in this film amuses me. There's people from This Is Us, Moonlight, Key and Peele, Game of Thrones... I don't know, it's just a little funny.
i had a feeling this was gonna suck based on the trailers alone. i'll wait till this shows up on the FX channel. i don't think it's probably even worth a matinee. it's time to let this franchise die once and for all just like with ALIENS. it's done, put a fork in em even though i think the first AvP was half way descent. I have a bad feeling Venom will also kinda suck.
Very good analysis of the film, this is one I would like to see a director's cut of with the original ending. The introduction scene for Olivia Munns' character was the one that involved the registered sex offender. I think the film would have been much better if they had Munn be the lead and give her the chance to be an action star.
I've never had any interest in getting this on DVD or anything so sorry if I'm wrong but I do wonder if any of the original ending ect had effects added to it because if not sadly we'll never see it outside 'work print' quality and I couldn't see the studio wanting to throw money at finishing the footage unless there was strong demand.
it's about time the predator had another film
Couldn't agree with your analysis more! This movie was pure garbage!
Their a elephant in the room...you know
Agreed. Disappointing in almost every way.
It'll be going to the top of my films-to-be-fan-edited list.
I didn't think it was all that bad and I watched a shitty cam shot version of it online. I really like Keegan Michael key. He's the only character I did like. The ending was terrible though.
Watched four reviews now and Brad Jones' is still the only mostly positive one. I'm totally with Brad on this one. I had fun. ...Decker Shado got downright mad. Chris Stuckmann just looked sad.
Angry Joe and James Rolfe liked it, too.
Great review mate! I'm really conflicted on this film! It's not a bad film! But it's a bad predator film!
One mistake was casting Jacob Tremblay in the movie. He is a great actor but he does not belong in this movie. This is predator, not a family film or a drama like Room, WTF. Why the style of the comedy? It does not fit the movie.
It was actually a pretty good, up until half way through it felt like a really great movie but then the super predator showed up and brought it down a good bit but over all it was entertaining and fun.
Who would have thought that Black and Dekker would make a bad product
Bruce Willis vs Predator.
Olivia Munn. Did anyone really think this was going to be good?