oh the predator the troubled troubled
predator as always you can expect an
incredibly honest review from me and
this will be no different admittedly I
had massive reservations for this film
from the leaked script the leaked images
the first trailer but then things
started to look up we got word of
reshoots rewrites of third act and the
trailers and the marketing changed
completely and I became genuinely
excited for this movie and have to say I
loved absolutely loved about 90% of it
absolutely loved it but 10% ten percent
of this movie namely the ending ruined
it for me let's discuss non spoilers
first and then we'll go into spoilers
the main plots
well we open on an absolutely fantastic
scene and something that's not been seen
before at all something that I can't say
as it'll be a spoiler but something that
expands the law of the Predators in a
great way moving from there our leading
man McKenna is on location in Mexico on
an operation he's about to take his shot
and boom spaceship comes out from the
sky cue the scenes from the trailers
where he stumbles across the gear and
this is the setup for the film he finds
the ship takes the Predators gear the
fugitive and mails it to his pure box to
keep his safest evidence in case he
falls into government hands he does he's
interviewed or debriefed I guess you
could say it's essentially just the
stuff that we've seen in the trailers
and from here we introduce two Traeger
the head of project stargazer played by
trivanti
Rhodes and my god what an asshole this
character is the most badass I've seen
in a long long time
and I don't mean because he's evil or
he's just massive etc he's just a prick
but he loves it and has so much
conviction behind it he loves what he
does he loves being an asshole and I
of watching it so from the trailers we
know there is a band of misfits the
loonies they were absolutely fantastic
really really great they have a superb
balance of humor and although I had my
reservations on the dialogue it actually
came across very very well there are
genuine laugh-out-loud moments and the
characters are likable there's one
Baxley who's played by Thomas Jane and
he has Tourette's which of course could
have been played up and come across
awful however it was used just enough
with just the right timing and just the
right phrases and comments that made it
hilarious in the best way the other
loonies have their little traits and
they're all misfits but they do become
likable and I engage with them the way
they're introduced is a little
derivative but it worked from here
things run astray and predators go up
against predators and then predator
hunts the team as they have something
one of the Predators was trying to bring
to us for some reason that's the plot as
spoiler free as possible so let's break
down the good it has an awesome tense
feeling throughout I could feel tension
an atmosphere I've got a sense of
urgency and it worked very very well
despite the great use of tension it also
had some fantastic and textbook shame
black humor but it had a good balance
and again in word the effects of the
Predators actually pretty good does it
work in its entirety no and there are
some moments that really do suffer and
look quite off the overall story is a
good expansion to the universe this
isn't a bland and paint by numbers
predator movie it isn't many jungle men
fly predator and die there is a lot more
to it than that and some of it works and
some of it really doesn't through the
reshoots though you do get a feel of the
film being light lots of things implied
lots of things pushed but nothing really
fleshed out things that looked like they
could have gone somewhere didn't as if
they did potentially before the reshoots
I will commend Fox for trying they tried
to make this the predator movie not just
predator movie and part of that is what
will be to this film's detriment it has
such a good balance of everything up
until a point the ending then it
absolutely screwed itself it rear-ended
itself and it had totally shifted
changed and became John Carpenter's The
Thing a messed-up amalgamation of sinew
and flesh a mesh of ideas that just
didn't work this film absolutely
benefits from the reshoots but you can
feel them in there and the ending it's
not better than what was in the lead
script it's certainly no worse but it's
on par and it's equally as bad but it's
such a shame because up until that point
I absolutely loved it everything worked
and then it's as if someone new just
came in and tacked on a new ending and
they hadn't even worked on the film but
had seen an outline how can i rate this
film I guess it's probably fair to say
that I will watch this again I want to
watch it with a public audience I want
to see their reaction and I want to see
it again for me because there is promise
there there are good things in this film
that the ending will likely divide
people and unfortunately I hate to say
it I think will be the reason this movie
fails it will leave a sour taste in your
mouth and I think a lot of people the
fans included will not forgive it the
action is great and this is by far the
bloodiest predator movie yet it earns
its our rating and amazingly Olivia Munn
wasn't annoying or incredibly terrible
the kid you saw in the trailers was
actually handled reasonably well would I
have liked less sure but all in all it
wasn't as bad as I expected it to be so
that out of the way let's discuss the
spoilers shall we
you've been warned spoilers now spoiler
warning the opening was so good the
fugitive predator is called that because
he stole something from the Predators
the opening is in space we see two
predator
shipped one chasing the other and boom
one of them opens up a tear in space and
disappears kind of like a wormhole what
an awesome addition to the law really
really great the design of the ships
unfortunately has been kept from a VP
though which I thought is a shame
because I really liked what they did
with the ship design and Predator 2 so
from here the upgrade is obviously out
to get the fugitive he's an assassin
basically interestingly enough though
it's implied that if this didn't happen
the movie wouldn't have happened
so those interviews where Shane black is
discussing the upgrade predator and
states how a clan on predator world is
angry with humanity for beating their
champions not once but twice and decided
to upgrade themselves and send this
upgrade to seek revenge seems they've
actually been nonsense because as
mentioned it's implied that if the
fugitive hadn't stolen anything that the
upgrade wouldn't have turned up on earth
once he's here though does he then seek
out some of the things and do other
things after killing the fugitive sure
but those initial rumors seem to be
false
anyway the whole hybridization element
to the movie yeah it's still there front
and center fact they have all been doing
it the fugitive has human DNA in it
unfortunately this is now canon pretty
much across the board by the looks of it
he looks like a normal predator - so
that would mean that they all do it
because otherwise they'd look different
which is a shame but hey-ho it's there
it's done they work it into the story
why are they doing this well to upgrade
themselves to make themselves evolve
essentially it's implied again there's a
lot implied but not much outright stated
or explained that the Predators are
doing this because they want to come to
our planet and basically move in global
warming is creating the perfect
environment for them and they want to
take advantage of that take trophies of
the best of us take our DNA while our
time on earth
we're essentially and described as in
the movie an endangered species we just
don't know it yet on the topic of the
upgrade really really good actually I
really enjoyed him it didn't look as bad
as I thought it would and they seemed to
have found a good balance of showing
just enough and not having him to front
and center so as to much focus goes on
him and thus the illusion is ruined
it was good he dies way too easily for
my liking though and it all seems just a
bit shallow a bit Hollow the death is
very similar to the leap script and I
wish they had changed it he does a lot
of damage to the looneys kills them all
basically but I would have liked to see
him do more so to me that was a letdown
but this is probably what you came for
the very ending this is where it becomes
awful atrocious even the thing the
fugitive stole the thing that is a gift
for Humanity as a weapon against his own
kind
the Predators is a fucking suit of armor
I kid you not
it's a arrives in a pod and I thought
Arnold Schwarzenegger was going to jump
out from some translator it's called the
predator killer
so I'm sat there thinking okay where are
they going with this
what's a predator killer what's on a pod
shaped like it would fit a human body
Arnold nope this piece of technology
comes out hovers above the pod and then
flies onto a scientists arm the thing
that expands covers his body like an
Iron Man suit and is a robotic predator
suit complete with metal dreadlocks
his gift to humanity was a suit of armor
a god damn suit of armor which then
McKenna states that's my next suit but
just hope it comes in my size setting up
a sequel of essentially superhero
Ironman predator against the other
predators yeah I know you probably think
I'm joking but I'm not that is actually
the ending legitimately the ending
originally the pods had hybrids in them
predator hybrids which sadly probably
would have been better than
unfortunately I think this ending will
really put people off because a world
where superhero movies now dominate the
box office you come to a predator movie
for something new something different
something outside of that superhero crap
and then some reason Fox thought it
would be a good idea to try and turn
predator into some superhero movie oh
dear
like I say this ending will really make
or break this film it's the ending of
the movie so people will come out having
their necks broken from the 180 turn
tonally that this film takes and
probably be really disgruntled thus bad
word of mouth if it had a horrible start
but then improved and got better and an
ended well I think the audience could
forgive it that this I think will cause
issues for the film anyway
I genuinely loved it up until that point
I had a great time but that ending
ruined it for me I hope you enjoyed this
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