Obviously, studio meddling made this one DOA. Brown, and Keegan-Michael Key, but a messy third act never achieves the epic levels it strives for and sullies any goodwill achieved in the first hour or so. Black’s script features the occasional burst of smart-ass humor, delivered by a solid cast led by Olivia Munn, Boyd Holbrook, Thomas Jane, Sterling K. The Iron Man 3 director paints on a massive canvas and delivers some incredible Predator action, but the good stuff is splashed across an incredibly sloppy (and misguided) storyline containing Autism, violent prison convicts, and a Predator who arrives on Earth … to save humanity. Shane Black returns to the Predator franchise with surprisingly lackluster results. I mean, kudos to the Brother Strause for plastering R-rated gore all over the sequel, even if they go a little too far in their efforts to shock audiences - did we really need to see a dozen pregnant women give birth to alien offspring? But damned if the Predator action isn’t the best we’ve seen since the original Predator - and that’s really about all there is to say about this one. Yes, there’s a needless number of callbacks/homages to previous films. Yes, the cast looks like they were plucked from every CW series in existence. To think, 20th Century Fox passed up the opportunity to work with James Cameron and Ridley Scott on an Alien 5 for this garbage, which might be the worst entry in the Predator and Alien franchises. Human characters lack personality, the overly digital visuals give off an early-2000s vibe, and the plot revolving around pyramids buried beneath Antarctica sucks. Anderson’s creatively flaccid “franchise starter” to anything beyond the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. The novelty of seeing the famed xenomorph and Predator on screen together for the first time isn’t enough to propel Paul W.S. Well, maybe not AVP, but you get the gist 7. There are quite a few Predator films to sift through in this day and age, and while many of them suck, almost all bring something to the table. Now that Prey has hit Hulu, it’s time to look back at the Predator franchise and snobbishly rank the films according to our personal tastes.
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