Movie Review: ‘The Predator’ Falls flat in Disappointing Entry to Classic Franchise
As the latest franchise to be revived by Hollywood, the “Predator” films have always captured audiences with their thrilling action, quippy dialogue and humor, impressive special effects and unique costume design.
Writer/director Shane Black’s “The Predator” attempts to touch on each of those traits of the first three films, but instead crash-lands well off course, turning in what is easily the worst of the three Predator films and delivers something closer to the abhorrent Alien vs. Predator movies.
The premise of the film is cliched, and falls painfully short of being intriguing. One normal-sized Predator lands on Earth after being chased by a larger Predator that begins to hunt the normal one. The humans caught in the middle of the latest chase are a group of escaping Marine veter...