Rating of
1.5/4
Time to put this franchise out of its misery.
Indyfreak - wrote on 01/22/19
An extraordinary misstep by director Shane Black, this latest addition to the Predator franchise commits to the R rating with gore and f-bombs aplenty. But it suffers tremendously from obvious studio interference and a watered down sense of machismo that prior filmmakers like John McTiernan and Stephen Hopkins could do in their sleep. Instead of ginormous burly men as the heroes that are forced to rely on wits not brawn, we get scrawny average joe schmoes who somehow can hold their own in a fight with an eleven foot tall super predator. The cast might be game for the jokey ott tone but it is out of place with the gruesome kills and exploitative violence. Shane Black normally balances such disparate elements far better than this. The budget and money thrown in might be on full display but w/o any of the suspense or tension that was a defining characteristic of the 1987 cult classic.
