(No Spoilers Here)
I watched it last night and my goodness. I tend to go into those kinds of movies trying to not hold any expectations, as that will ruin a movie quicker than you can say, “There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man. We’re all gonna die.” But… because this was the second Predator movie from director Dan Trachtenberg, I was expecting it to be at least pretty good all around.
Thankfully for me, I very much enjoyed it. Perhaps more than I was expecting to.
((I’ll add more of my take of the movie and such if others are interested in having that discussion.)
But what did you think of the movie overall?
Please use the Spoiler text feature if you do share any further details that might ruin the movie for someone else. Thank you.
This was mindless fun and did some very clever action design that made wonderful use of the sci-fi genre; it had some story beats that could’ve had more friction (e.g. alliances were too easily formed considering the context of this supposedly isolationist race) but… whatever; this is easily on par with the things you’d read in a Predator comic (or AvP for that matter), and it was nice to see it in live action on the big screen.
Way to stretch that PG-13 rating
My nitpicky, spoiler qualms were as follows:
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The baby kalisk understands their language enough to laugh at jokes? Thia is meant to know everything about wildlife on Genna but doesn’t recognize a baby kalisk? Both Thia and Tessa supposedly have higher sensitivities; why is Thia’s higher than Tessa’s, and why is Tessa exhibiting none (a simple fix: say the empathy nodule had been damaged in the attack)? Why did the Spray Snake sacrifice its life for Dek? Why didn’t the synths open fire on Dek while he had his back turned and sitting down; where are the lightning-fast reflexes and sensitivities synths are meant to have? They were such easy fodder (fix: weyland bought the shittiest synths save for one). Why did Dek think his dad was going to be happy with a synth head for a trophy; was his dad meant to know that particular synth is more impressive than the hundreds killed alongside it? So Dek-- the runt of the clan-- is able to easily take on two personal bodyguards, as well as his dad (who beat his brother) without so much as a scratch? I feel like it would’ve been more badass and driven the message home better if he used all of the animals/tech he got from Genna against his dad in an attempt to show sparing someone’s life/working together with species deemed weaker than you can make you more powerful than any Yuatja.