Felt like watching something and with nothing else to go on right now, figured I'd bite the bullet and see what we got with
The Predator. I mostly had the movie spoiled by now, so I was mostly just in to say I watched it, since I watched the whole series to prep for this one.
Right off the bat, I didn't like the movie. The setting instantly reminds me of AVP: Requiem, which is the worst thing they could've done for the series. This setting sucks for a Predator movie.
The whole tone of the movie just sucks. I don't understand who this movie is for. Fans wanting a revival of the series much like it was with the first two movies, aren't getting that because this movie's leads are an autistic child genius, a "badass" scientist girl, and a group of soldiers with PTSD with boring action scenes. The people who don't care about the property and just want an action scifi movie aren't getting that for the same reasons, but it also has this bad humor throughout that doesn't work, and the whole point of the movie is expanding on the "lore" that they don't care about, because no one by the end is gonna care about the upcoming "Predators vs Humans" war. The whole plot just feels sloppy and lame.
Geez this is disappointing lol Not counting the AVP movies, this one is at the bottom for me. Predators isn't great, but at least it feels like a Predator movie. Even then, I'd probably put this below AVP and Requiem, purely because I was bored. At least those movies have Xenomorphs in them and feel almost slightly more cohesive than this. If you were waiting to watch this one too, I'd recommend to just don't. It's not worth it.