The Predator, is about what you’d expect for a sci-fi action movie genre film. If you are a fan, this fits nicely in the Predator movie universe. If you want a strong story, interesting dialog or engaging plot lines, this is not your movie. This is not to say that it is not satisfying on the surface. The movie gives you fun but thinly developed characters, and lots of action, chases, and things go boom action.
My niggles with the characters include things like a child on the spectrum, who is displays communication deficits, that conveniently are not bothered with as the plot needs. His mom is oddly sold as a tough mom, who stays home while dad goes out to save his son, and a series of soldiers with mental issues that have them in custody for things like turrets? It makes no sense, but it gives the writers liberty to create characters that are odd, goofy, and somewhat endearing but not too much so, as the Predator, as in all his movies cuts through humans like a knife through birthday cake. I won’t ruin it by telling you who makes it, but needless to say, a sequel has been setup again...
The Predator C+
Starring
Boyd Holbrook -Quinn McKenna
Trevante rhodes - Nebraska Williams
Jacob trembly - Rory McKenna
Keegan-Michael key - Coyle
Olivia Munn - Casey Bracket
Sterling k. Brown - Traeger
Allie Allen - Lynch
Thomas Jane - Baxley
Augustin Aguilera - Nettles
Jake Busey - Keyes
Steven Wilder Striegel - cut from film due to registered sexual Predator status.
Yvonne Strahovski - Emily McKenna
Brian A. Prince - Predator
Directed
Shane Black
Writen
Shane Black
Fred Dekker