An average movie

Even if this movie was a big commercial and critical flop, I still wanted to check it out though. It’s a shame because a Predator flick written and directed by Shane Black sounded so cool at first. However, it was indeed pretty weak, in fact, it turned out to be only slightly better than the terrible ‘Alien vs Predator’ movies. I mean, there were a couple of decent ideas but there were a whole bunch of bad ones as well. For example, I really have a weak spot for Olivia Munn and she tried really hard but to have a scientist trying to fight off such a skilled killing machine was lame. I mean, at some point, you get to see her running around with some toy gun after the predator which was just rather pathetic. Even worse, they decided to add some kid to the mix which was rather misguided. Indeed, as a result, you get to see some violent R rated action scenes with a young boy in the middle of the action. To make things worse, the kid was some autistic genius which has become such a lame and lazy gimmick. Finally, I don’t understand why they keep trying to turn the Predator into a good guy. Indeed, it’s such a tedious approach and it doesn’t make the character more entertaining at all. In this case, there was also just way too much explanation about the motivations of the Predators when this character has always been more interesting when he remained mysterious. Eventually, the only original idea I did like was the fact that the team of soldiers facing the Predator was composed of mental patients but even this idea was poorly developed. Seriously, it was maybe fun for 5 minutes but it got old very fast. Indeed, it could have been really neat to see this team of crazy guys having no sense of what is going on, taking some incredible risks and actually succeeding but, instead, they turned out to be some cowards which was definitely not what this kind of movies needs. Anyway, to conclude, even if I have seen worse, the whole thing felt like another missed opportunity to finally do something interesting with this franchise and I don’t think it is really worth a look.