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EstheteDec 9, 2018

Story - sh#t, even worse than AvP. All Predator's movies filmed after the original the Predator (1987) is cr@p, and the Predator (2018), unfortunately is no exception.

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Marko_kaneSep 17, 2018

Under average movie, waste of money and time.
Full of clichés, idiotic monologues and just bad acting.
Looks like 12yo write the script. This franchise is over.
To quote my good friend: RIP Alien, Terminator and now Predator.

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antmolly1995Sep 14, 2018

Hugely disappointing AND I went in with lowish expectations. There are a couple of reasonably good performances and scenes but overall its a shambolic mess and for an action movie quite boring.

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CO_HikerSep 15, 2018

I’m almost 40, and I’m posting a movie review for the first time (that’s how bad this movie is). I left 64 minutes into the film (another personal first). ‘The Predator’ is a confused mess. It’s a terrible addition to the franchise and toI’m almost 40, and I’m posting a movie review for the first time (that’s how bad this movie is). I left 64 minutes into the film (another personal first). ‘The Predator’ is a confused mess. It’s a terrible addition to the franchise and to “A-list” sci-fi movies in general. Expect glaring plot holes, poor CGI, army recruitment undertones, ridiculous autism speculation, and physics-defying scenes – you’ll feel like you paid to watch a video game stream in a theater..… Expand

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EerieDemonbleSep 14, 2018

No.Just.No. Creators of this movie took a massive dump on "Predator" lore. It's more like R-rated action comedy with goofy characters and "your mom" jokes. Plot is all over the place with unnecessery sub-plots and dumb premise for the wholeNo.Just.No. Creators of this movie took a massive dump on "Predator" lore. It's more like R-rated action comedy with goofy characters and "your mom" jokes. Plot is all over the place with unnecessery sub-plots and dumb premise for the whole story. Characters are numerous, forgetable and sometimes really annoying. CGI is ok(ish). Some scenes with violence and gore is one of the few things done right. And that ending....Holy nipple twisting sh..t. Predator franchise went full retard, "Transformers-style".… Expand

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RahsmooveSep 14, 2018

Don't go see The Predator. Almost everything about it was awful. It feels like a group of interns wrote, directed and produced this lackluster catastrophe. It was so bad I almost walked out last night. From the bad acting, cringy dialogue,Don't go see The Predator. Almost everything about it was awful. It feels like a group of interns wrote, directed and produced this lackluster catastrophe. It was so bad I almost walked out last night. From the bad acting, cringy dialogue, annoying stupid poorly written forgettable characters and their questionable decisions, CGI so bad that it looks like it's from a 2010-2013 alien video game cut scene, action scenes so boring and full of mindless explosions that it feels as if it's a bad Michael Bay film. Not to mention it's terrible pacing and a plot that's so all over the place the movie itself doesn't seem to realize what is. The jokes are so immature and unoriginal. I laughed at a few of them, but most of them seem like some 10 year old high acid said them. Hell even kids probably won't find this amusing. I found myself cheering for The Predator to kill all the characters and walk away with the boy. It would've been for the best, because his father the a dumbass. Stop making half ass cash grab films like these for a quick buck with no effort. If you're too incompetent to do so stay out of the show business.… Expand

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BtBOSteveSep 14, 2018

The film is a parody of a 'Predator' movie, it's a spoof of the franchise and the current mindset of studio executives with their "MCU, MCU, MCU" envy. The film wreaks of meddling, studio and test audiences.

Due to the re-shoots, there'sThe film is a parody of a 'Predator' movie, it's a spoof of the franchise and the current mindset of studio executives with their "MCU, MCU, MCU" envy. The film wreaks of meddling, studio and test audiences.

Due to the re-shoots, there's plenty of barely finished CGI and it's hard to get too invested in some of the action sequences when the VFX look straight out of 'Star Trek Generations' and some creature CG that's borderline as bad as the VFX in 'An American Werewolf in Paris'. But, those were mid-90's movies, not a major release in 2018.

It's not just the rushed CG, the re-shoots have taken their toll and crippled the film both structurally and narratively, it's an absolute cluster mess, overflowing with pacing issues, tonal imbalances, massive continuity issues and plot holes. It is one of the worst edited movies I have ever seen put out as a major release. I have never had so many - "WTF? Who, when, how do you know that? You don't know that?! You weren't there or didn't see it so how do you know that?! No, you didn't read his file, you were there for 2 minutes!" - moments in a film for a long time. I spent a lot of it going in my head "oh, so they're over there now, weren't they just over there a minutes ago?", "hang on, where did they get all those guns? Where did they get the trucks? They were in the house, now they've got all that... what?" and the worst moment was, "where did they get that helicopter? How did they get that in less than two cuts?"… Expand

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CoonarosJun 18, 2020

What a **** movie !!! I was really hyped enough for this movie and i get only dissapointment! I really wish a predator movie with Arnolds return event thouhgt in his age!!!! Maybe he was the reason of success in the first movie cause all theWhat a **** movie !!! I was really hyped enough for this movie and i get only dissapointment! I really wish a predator movie with Arnolds return event thouhgt in his age!!!! Maybe he was the reason of success in the first movie cause all the others movies than the first one sucked really hard!… Expand

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wuikthekingAug 8, 2019

Un predator terrificante ma anche come film d'azione a se stante è inguardabile.

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KiarianNov 16, 2020

My review has to be 75 characters long. So I just had dinner. It was nice. This film is **** ****

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CrowND19Aug 9, 2022

This film is nothing more but a spit in the face of all Predator fans. There is absolutely no respect towards the Yautja lore, as if Shane Black did not take even a minute in looking for material to make the film. I've spent a while thinkingThis film is nothing more but a spit in the face of all Predator fans. There is absolutely no respect towards the Yautja lore, as if Shane Black did not take even a minute in looking for material to make the film. I've spent a while thinking about ways the plot could've been changed to make it work (all of them without the Assassin Predator, of course), but dude, I give up, there is absolutely no way of justifying that this movie was even a concept to be started. It looks more as a Fan-Parody than an actual Hollywood movie.… Expand

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AcidwormAug 16, 2022

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 townThis 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.… Expand