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- 2018
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
- 2018
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
Summary From the outer reaches of space to the backwoods of southern Georgia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before. And only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biology professor can prevent the e...
Directed By: Shane Black
Written By: Fred Dekker, Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Shane Black
- 2018
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
- 2018
- R
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 1 h 47 m
The Predator
48
5.0
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Summary From the outer reaches of space to the backwoods of southern Georgia, the hunt comes home in Shane Black’s explosive reinvention of the Predator series. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before. And only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and an evolutionary biology professor can prevent the e...
Directed By: Shane Black
Written By: Fred Dekker, Jim Thomas, John Thomas, Shane Black
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
59% Mixed
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
12% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 49 Critic Reviews
48
29% Positive
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
59% Mixed
29 Reviews
29 Reviews
12% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Insanely violent, packed with off-color jokes, and of course, sentimentality, “The Predator” is one of the most enjoyable popcorn flicks hitting multiplexes this fall season.
Director/co-writer Shane Black, indulging his tendency towards glibness, brings an outright comic touch that turns the latest interaction between humans and these dreads-wearing extraterrestrial big-game hunters, into something of a bloody romp – as inappropriate as that sounds (and often is).
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 610 User Ratings
5.0
36% Positive
217 Ratings
217 Ratings
28% Mixed
170 Ratings
170 Ratings
37% Negative
223 Ratings
223 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 610 User Ratings
5.0
36% Positive
217 Ratings
217 Ratings
28% Mixed
170 Ratings
170 Ratings
37% Negative
223 Ratings
223 Ratings
Amazing movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This movie was fun. I lol'd more then once. Acting was fun and special effects are fine. Definitely worth watching.
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If you can’t check your brain at the door then don’t even bother with The Predator. The film is loud, improbable, manufactured within an inch of its life, and takes absolutely no real risks with the franchise. If you want action movie comfort food, this might be your movie.
In story and in visual style, The Predator feels less like a Shane Black movie than a generic, middling Hollywood blockbuster helmed by a workmanlike studio hack who occasionally asked Shane Black for advice.
The Predator guts and slashes its way to gory sci-fi mediocrity, but is further failed by abysmal pacing that loses characters, subplots and interest along the way.
While the Black magic of old was a great fit for Iron Man 3 – the writer-director’s last venture into franchise territory – it turns The Predator into a shrill, murky, retrograde bore, whose handful of punchy ideas get lost in the cracks of its terminally haywire plot.
Racially offensive quips, flagrant sexism and Tourette syndrome gags all contribute to this witless, scare-free junk.
I watched the film with my 15 yo kid. Both had a great time. Loved the movie, I hope they make a sequel.
Great writing, acting and photography.
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It's bad to know that studio is not able to make good Predator movies after first one. This one was an improvement from previous parts but it was not great.
The script and editing had problems. The story is interesting but it was not made perfectly, mainly due to slow pacing and unnecessary scenes. Action is good and you may also enjoy the deaths scenes
Acting and writing was also not that good. They were okay.
Overall, it's 'OK'. It had a lot of potential but the overall product was not upto the mark.
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A typical action-flick, losing the suspense from the original. Thin plot replaced by generic action scenes and Predator gimmicks. Terminator 2 inspired story and forgettable characters. Holbrook is no Arnie. Deliciously violent, not very funny. Unnecessary remake, but passes.
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[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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This time a Predator is captured, and held at some military research lab, and of course it escapes as the scientists don’t restrain him properly. Then the movie plays out like John Carpenter’s Halloween where they all drive around town searching for the Predator on Halloween with all the kids out trick or treating, and then they send in incompetent government agents.
The script doesn’t make much sense with a lot of continuity errors, and I don’t know if it is due to a problem with poor editing, but it feels quite disjointed in places. The scientist in one scene finds out who the sniper was that had first contact with the Predator, but then she is running for her life, and meets the sniper and says she already read his file. Like, no she didn’t. She never even had a chance to see it. At another point the group of misfit service members, which they refer to themselves as the loonies are in a woman’s house, and then you see them spread out in various vehicles driving around town including a police car with the sirens going. Like, what? Or later when they randomly show up at the perfect time with a News helicopter. Where did they get the vehicles from? They also magically have a lot of military grade firearms including grenade launchers, assault rifles with silencers, and mp5s. Yet they never had access to any of it. When a Predator says he is hunting them then the groups of people that were killing each other suddenly became allies without any hesitancy whatsoever, which was ridiculous. Oh, and the Scientist lady turned out to have special forces combat skills, which also was not believable.
Some of the deductions like from the military intelligence officer who deduced what the Predators were doing was too far-fetched. No way he could have deduced all that on the info he had, but serves as a lazy way for exposition. The Scientist who figures out what the Predators are up to on each planet by just looking at their blood in a microscope is also crazy far-fetched. No way she could deduce that. Also serves as exposition, and there were other moments equally as far-fetched. The young kid with autism who liked around 9 was also some kind of genius at being able to immediately know how to use the alien technology. This didn’t make any sense.
A VA facility would not be where they take the Predator to conduct tests, and the security would have been much better since they know they have an alien that is very deadly with a lot of strength as they make references to the Predators in previous movies. They know what they are capable of. It is also highly convenient that the soldier that makes first contact with the alien happens to be in the same VA facility. Not to mention, how convenient it was that the soldier was on a secret mission to rescue hostages in the jungle where the alien’s escape pod happened to land just as he was about to engage in his mission.
The movie has a lot of tonal problems too. It seems like it is meant to be a sci-fi action horror, which makes sense, but it also tries to be a comedy at times, and the attempts at humor feels so out of place, and cringe. I can’t tell if it is trying to be an intentional satire or not. The group of misfit soldiers are terribly out of place with one guy with tourettes as if he is meant to be the comic relief, and their interactions with one another is just irritating with some slapstick comedy. The scientist that joins them also seems to act out of character at times in a very disjointed way.
And, the CGI was not a good idea for the Predator, and looks like they were jumping on the Marvel bandwagon. The acting was pretty poor apart from the lead guy, and woman whom were decent and some of the action sequences were decent, but not much else.
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Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
Davis Entertainment,
TSG Entertainment,
Canada Film Capital
Release Date Sep 14, 2018
Duration 1 h 47 m
Rating R
Tagline You'll never see him coming.
Awards
Golden Trailer Awards
• 3 Nominations
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
• 1 Nomination
