I thought it was a fun action flick, worth the price of entry if you like Predator or fun action flicks. Where the story lacks the cast makes up for. I'd give it a 6/10 for action fans but only really recommend it for action fans.
I'd actually put it under that movie..... It's goofy, I just don't think that kind of tone fits with a Predator movie....
I haven't seen that movie in a while but I remember enjoying it because they tried to stay closer to the original with the setting and feel. This one is overly jokey, nothing is played serious everything is done for laughs....
The EXACT type of movie I DON'T want to see. Completely undercuts the tension and urgency. Basically makes it a parody. If one likes that type of movie than more power to ya. I just can't get get engrossed in a movie where there isn't urgency.
Yep and this whole entry feels like a parody, I'm not saying it's not funny in parts but after I left the theater and thought about it, I was really disappointed......
I was considering going to the theater for this movie but after reading everything here, "That's a no for me dawg". I might catch it on Netflix or something. From what I've read online it's a sequel to Predator 2, not so much a reboot, which is what I was hoping for when they first talked about this movie but the previews make it look so cheap.
It is a sequel to Predator 1 and 2 in the most casual of senses. They refer back to the Predators visiting earth before, "20 and 30 years ago." That is literally the only references to the original movies.
I cannot even put into words how truly disappointed I was with that movie, the storyline, the kid. Oh goodness the kid.
That was clearly them trying to win brownie points for "empowering" the disabled or some bullshit. It was silly, for sure.
Oh I got that. It utterly killed the movie for me. A kid can just pick up and use an alien's technology. Lullllzzzzzz
I'd actually be all for this. Forget all of the other predators and just make Predator 3. Old, retired Arnold and Glover come together. Both are obsessed with the predators following their own experiences and converge on the appearance of another one.
this review is deep https://thefederalist.com/2018/09/25/ignore-predators-low-reviews-good-movie/ It’s thus abstracted from questions of patriotism, politics, and the institutions within which we live normal lives. In that sense, “Predator” (1987) was a unique study of character, comparable with Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea” rather than schlocky movies with explosions or martial arts. In the sequel now out in theaters, all the violence takes place in the middle of America, ranging from the deep state’s secret facilities to suburbia. The change is deliberate and offers an entirely new way of thinking about military horror. The hero now is a special forces operator who has turned anti-hero, but still believes in the justice that led him to fight for America. His life is a failure—his wife divorced him and he rarely sees his boy—but he has not abandoned them and learns to protect them in this story.
I can see why people didn't like it, especially old Predator fans. Very different tone aimed at younger kids. But I looked at it from a reboot POV and it was entertaining crap that didn't take itself seriously like all good camp.
