Review of The Predator (2018) by Marcosreis — 27 Sep 2022

There is just so little to like in 'the Predator', and everything it does well is the visuals. The Predator is a simple concept, and the audience for this kind of film just wants simple things: An alien who is an intergalactic hunter for sport or whatever. Yet, they had to throw everything that only troubled the plot, straying from the only reason anyone would ever want to watch this.

Starting by the character of the boy in this movie, it's just wrong. It's just glorifing a disorder. Asperger is not a 'superpower' to make 12yo understand alientech. This felt like a wrong depiction of the condition in a bad way, was silly all the way and required some suspension of disbelief to continue. The fact that the entire plot depends on it so much makes this a bad movie. The entire plot gathers around this more and more, which makes the suspension of disbelief incleasingly harder. By the end of the movie they just added so much unnecessary content that convoluted the plot and disturbed the audience's first motivation so much, that I just preffer to think it to think this movie does not count start with. A giant predator felt so misplaced. It would be so much more more interesting if it was another regular predator. There could much more intense and remarkable scenes between two predator fighting then seeing a giant predator destroy the regular one, effotlessly. It felt lazy and lame. A predator puppy.

It even has the bangs. How can anyone not get out of immersion when there is a predator puppy? With predator bangs for good reason?

And of plain and simple enviromental alarmism out of nowhere (it's defenitely alarmism when you say the world ends in two generations).

Now, Balancing the nice looking predator with these awful aspects, there's almost nothing to keep one's interest. Add to it the all so exausting "last second" cliche taken to exaustion. It breaks the movie for me, really.

Making a predator story is not so hard, you just have to keep it simple, small, localized and broad enough to turn it into a connected universe. It shouldn't make too much out of it in a single installment, it's just predator hunting for prey.