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There is quite a few things that were wrong with it, but I thought it was a half decent sequel to Predator-2
Nothing will EVER beat the first.
IMO there are only, Predator, Predator-2, and The Predator.
The rest do not even exist
You didn't like PredatorS? I thought it was the 2nd best of the whole lot (nothing will top the original, of course).
The very ending--with the "Pred Killer Suit" A.K.A. "Predator/War Machine" was over-the-top awful!!! I could sorta kinda hang with the rest of it... but that was the final nail in the coffin.
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personally, i was quite disappointed.
I rather liked the "fugitive" predator... but that's not surprising, as it looked basically like the preds we've seen previously, and it's actions--while in some places a good bit more violent--were very cool, and very much in keeping with what's been established in the other films.
The "Pred Dogs" were dumb, IMO. Why did they have dreds? Seriously? Did they think they needed to have dreds for us to get that they were with the preds? UGGHH
The Assassin Predator wasn't quite as bad as I had feared. He mostly looked OK...though the closeup CGI on him looked really bad. The chief problem I had with him was that they felt the need to push everything to eleven and try to outdo any previously seen predator. At one point Olivia Munn (the SCIENTIST, remember...) says "He was able to grow an Exo-Skeleton under his skin!" I'm no scientist, but even *I* know that makes it an ENDO Skeleton, Ms. Munn.
I just don't see why all of the "upgrades" were necessary. The Preds are already the baddest thing out there, generally. They hunt for sport, and when they find an opponent which can best them on even terms, their respect is won. This is what we know... this is what has been shown all along. Not so, here. in this movie, we are given a silly story in which "global warming" is wrecking our planet, and so the preds have to hurry and collect the best of our DNA before we all kill ourselves (leftist political nonsense) so that they can upgrade themselves genetically. I don't know why they need to upgrade themselves... or why they think our DNA is the best thing to do that with?
The very ending--with the "Pred Killer Suit" A.K.A. "Predator/War Machine" was over-the-top awful!!! I could sorta kinda hang with the rest of it... but that was the final nail in the coffin.
I was so hopeful that having Shane Black involved was going to keep most of the film within the realm of what made the first one so good. But despite his frequent re use of P1 music and even some callbacks to it, overall this just doesn't cut it, IMO.
I actually think i enjoyed AVP:R better, as crazy as that sounds. The Wolf, at least, was a far better adversary than the "Assassin Pred".
I hope you guys liked it. :/