Predators
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: July 9, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
51
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
17
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Antal is a professional who respects your dollars. In a season where the blockbusters are as flat as month-old soda, that’s the most romantic gesture a commercial filmmaker can make. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie Punter
Predators never gives us the satisfaction of knowing what motivates the alien hunters to use humans for sport, but at least it has fun showing us that humans can, indeed, be the most dangerous game. Read full review
75
New York PostLou Lumenick
After 23 years and three attempts, Predators finally delivers a solid sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger B-movie classic. Read full review
70
MovielineMichelle Orange
Amid the macho poses and reloading of his unbelievably enormous weapon, I was distracted by the notion of Brody’s participation as a kind of privately satisfying performance art (a similar impulse found James Franco doing a guest stint on "General Hospital"). Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazinePam Grady
Predators is sometimes silly and hardly original, but it delivers the thrills. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
While Predators isn't nearly as vivid or fresh as the original, it's certainly its strongest sequel. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Summer was made for this kind of film, and Predators is almost exactly what you need to fix this otherwise busted summer cinema season. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Alice Braga plays an Army sniper uniquely familiar with jungle fighting. She is the only one of the crew who does any soul-searching to figure out why this particular group was chosen as prey. Read full review
63
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
It's hard to take Predators terribly seriously. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
It's solidly entertaining for what it is and, while it does little to truly rejuvenate the franchise, at least it lessens the pain caused by two gimmicky cross-over pictures that sucked too much juice out of what was one of the 1980s' most surprisingly tense sci-fi action pictures. Read full review
60
EmpireKim Newman
A solidly okay Saturday night effort, but unambitious considering the talent involved. Maybe Rodriguez should direct Predator Resurrection, but get a science fiction writer to script it. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyNick Pinkerton
Doing The Most Dangerous Game is, for action directors, what covering "Satisfaction" is to bar bands; if you hit most of the notes, it'll do. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid Fear
The odor of musty, late-’80s nostalgia may still hover around this already threadbare brand, but you simply don’t see movies that leave both the curious and the fans who truly care this viscerally satisfied anymore. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The movie is mostly about our nasty heroes being attacked by terrifying antagonists in incomprehensible muddles of lightning-fast special effects. It lacks the quiet suspense of the first “Predator,” and please don't even mention the “Alien vs. Predator” pictures, which lacked the subtlety of “Mothra vs. Godzilla.” Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
A pretty good action movie for about 45 minutes. Unfortunately, it lasts 106. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
Predators, plural, starts well and ends poorly, and in the middle it's in the middle. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Very much bearing the creative imprint of Robert Rodriguez, but directed by Nimrod Antal, the new edition, in its best moments, is an unabashed B-movie that plays like a jacked-up "Twilight Zone" with award-winning actors delivering the pulp-infused dialogue. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Little happens that you don't see coming, down to which cast members will get picked off and in what order. It's a dumb action movie in a summer full of dumb movies, and yet it's always entertaining. And you won't really miss Arnold at all. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The Predator series needed a shot of vitality, not another workmanlike go-around. SSDP: Same shit, different planet. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis Harvey
Perfs are adequate in a movie lacking much use for better ones, though Brody disappoints by using the stock sotto voce rasp of the uber-macho action hero who really, really means business. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerTirdad Derakhshani
A preposterous, if admittedly fun, exercise in sci-fi/horror mayhem. Read full review
50
PremiereNick Starkey
Predators biggest failing is that it manages to make its sci-fi violence absurdly boring. Read full review
50
Orlando SentinelRoger Moore
All these years after Predator, these decades past the classic film, "Most Dangerous Game," that inspired this genre, it’s good to see the idea of the hunter becoming the hunted still gets the blood racing. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderCliff Doerksen
The dialogue is dumber than dirt, and the plot crumbles at the halfway mark, but the movie does what a loud summer blockbuster should, which is loudly bust blocks. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyChris Nashawaty
As a fan of Schwarzenegger's macho, heart-of-darkness original, it gives me no pleasure to say that Predators is an uninspired mess of mediocre action scenes strung together until the final reel. Read full review
42
NPRJeannette Catsoulis
By anyone's reckoning, Predators is a middling 1980s B movie; too bad this is 2010. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe Neumaier
Predators tries to spice up the hunt-or-be-hunted thesis, but from the get-go, director Nimrod Antal's movie has nowhere to run. Read full review
30
The New York TimesStephen Holden
As its momentum accelerates, and its special effects transform it into a pulpy cartoon, Predators loses its judgment and turns into a frantic, clichéd chase film. This chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve Persall
As far as unnecessary movies go, Predators is a pip. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleAmy Biancolli
You can't fool me. I know it's actually a parlor game. Read full review
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