From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having gen...
The immune sadness I have in my face for drawing that really cool poster,seeing the way it was marketed… Anyways,the review.
The Predator is just a movie. No real consequences,no great things about it,no fun…Just a generic little movie that just exists for the purpose of money. Shane Black now helms the director’s chair on this fourth take on one of the more disastrous franchises ever (following a negative sequel and some otherworldly Alien crossovers),and the result is just a movie that takes probably some of the wildest plot directions I’ve ever seen. More so than Jurassic World 2 to compare it in terms of wild plot twists.
That’s the main problem with The Predator: it’s that it’s so….Dysfunctional in its story that doesn’t know where to go with its material that it takes forever to reach a conclusion,coming from a plot that feels like it has some nice ideas that’s getting so desperate to grab the audience’s attention that more often than not,throws a one-liner or a comedy bit to keep the viewer awake.
Oh yeah,I forgot it had comedy. Man,was the comedy frustratingly unnecessary in here… The original Predator had the comedy,sure,but that movie had it when the plot wanted to,but in here,it feels like the script’s going override with its material,forcing the movie to have a “Nothing” factor to it. Like,you’re having this fight in a darkly lit school (assuming from the color palette),and even then you have time to bitch and moan about your life?
I guess some moments were funny,like Keegan Michael Key’s character,who feels like he’s forced to have a fun time,otherwise the paycheck is not at home. Also this one kill that was superfun to look at,where Sterling K. Brown’s character has one of the few guns of the Predator Armor and he just turns his head,letting the gun shoot to his head.
All of this mostly detracting from an aggressively decent score by Henry Jackman (super disappointed,considering that last year he made one of the best Action Movie scores of the decade with Kingsman TGC) that just straight cashes in on Alan Silvestri’s original score.
The kills are probably the highlight of the movie. Some of them really awesome to look at,while some of them could’ve been cool...If it wasn’t for the CGI Green Splooge or Fake CGI Blood…
I honestly don’t know what I’m writing in here,man. This feels like the kind of movie where you have to remember the good and the bad to write a review in here,and that shouldn’t happen from a movie that’s supposed to be (at the very least) fun,or bad it’s good,or whatever. For a Shane Black movie,this feels like the movie where we’re gonna be all thankful for Iron Man 3 (another franchise movie of his that was actually great,but panned by the fans),considering everything I just said about it. There may have been a Predator in here,but the main picture can’t be considered like the titular character.
