Review of The Predator (2018) by John Y — 17 Sep 2018

A real let-down, but that should not be a surprise. after 4 NEAR-moribund PRECURSORS. The newspeak=labelled 'franchise,' begun by SCHWARZENEGGER & company back in 1097 is one of those incrediblY RARE hollywood feats, a blockbuster that can never again be anything like matched by a sequel, much less a plural of the same! fEW WRITERS, SCREEN- OR OTHERWISE, HAVE THE IMAGINATION AND SKILLS TO ACTUALLY BUILD UPON SUCH CONCEPTS--YEAH, PLURAL ON THAT ONE TOO--AS THOSE PUT FORTH IN THE ORIGINAL. IN THAT RESPECT IT'S MUCH LIKE fRANKENSTEIN, dRACULA (WHICH OF COURSE GOT A BIG HAND UP BY ACTUAL HISTORY), THE wOLFMAN, &C. oTHER MOVIES WITH SIMILARLY UNIQUE ideas are independence Day (the original, only), avatar, and the thing.

Part of the problem here is that even fewer writers--or purveyors of any art form, understand what the word 'unique' actually means, which results in such moronic complex terms as 'very unique!' Something either is or is not unique, not 'very,' or 'sort of,' or any other modifier.

The foregoing should suffice as an introduction to my actual review, which can be summed up in my own complex term: cheap collection of disconnected and incoherent events and interactions between the least likely, piebald or skewbald characters conceivable! Whew. that was certainly a mouthful, but there's really no one-, two-, or even three-word term that could possibly express this latest miseffort by Mr. Black & company!