The Predator (2018)

Predator has never been a movie series I was very enthralled by. It falls more on the "heavy on violence, low on story end" of Hollywood fair and that admittedly is not my thing. The original starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, always felt like a poor man's Terminator, a film series which remained superior even at its weakest. I'm always up for seeing a retry. Could this modern take do more with the story idea?

I guess it could have but writer/director Shane Black prefers to remain true to the films B-movie roots and stick with silly predictable story ideas, caricatures instead of characters, and "fuck yeah" style film violence. He makes exactly what you would expect from a Predator film, and not in a positive way. If all your looking for is disposable mindless violence, then The Predator meets that test.

There is yucky gender stuff in the middle which feels right out of the 80s and really has no place in modern film making. That, along with how much of the plot will make you roll your eyes, makes The Predator feel like a waste of an opportunity to make something of this franchise.

This cast really could have been up for something more. The story itself could have been something more. A bigger budget and modern effects could have made something more. But even in the realm of modern remakes/reboots, The Predator, remains the low end choice.

The Predator 
Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Olivia Munn, Sterling K Brown, Keegan-Michael Key, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Yvonne Strahovski
Director: Shane Black
Writers: Fred Dekker, Shane Black