I’ll wait to catch this on Redbox. I just can’t bring myself to spend money and time sneaking Chick-Fil-A into the theater for something that looks this silly.
Well I posted two alternative films opening this week. Looks like I'm gonna go with Nic Cages 'Mandy' at the Alamo.
I’m a huge Predator fan. Even love Predator 2 despite its faults, and Predators has good bits even though it seemed to have very little studio funding. It was more of a fan film IMO, but a decent attempt. This one however .... good lord it’s bad... and not even campy fun bad. Just god awful. Just rushed from scene to scene way too fast. There’s no narrative, and takes away sooo much about the mystic of the Predator to the extreme. My main takeaway is that the director thinks very very little about the canon and forces the viewer to take this as non serious as possible. If you like Pu$$y jokes though you’ll enjoy that aspect of it though. The film is sort of a middle finger to the metoo movement. That didn’t bother me too much because it was the best part of the movie but it’s just a little too on the nose. There is a funny Whoopi Goldberg joke in it though. Coming from a Predator fan, I say skip it and act like this movie doesn’t exist. It’ll probably solidify a filmmaker never getting the green light from a studio again to make a decently funded Predator film and the best we can hope for is a Predators like fan film.
Sadly, this review completely confirms my original suspicions about the movie. Particularly the cringe worthy "jokes" and chuckle hut.
So, the kid did trigger the whole thing playing with Predator items the boy's father shipped home? Utterly ridiculous.
Not really. I wouldn’t say he triggered him. He was already coming but his playing with the items helps connect why one particular predator is able to do what it does. The movies use of the boy and his apparent disability is kind of repulsive and insulting to the audience. One disability is played for jokes with one character while the other is played for a superpower.
