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Watch: The Predator 2018 123movies, Full Movie Online – From the outer reaches of space to the small-town streets of suburbia, the hunt comes home. Now, the universe’s most lethal hunters are stronger, smarter and deadlier than ever before, having genetically upgraded themselves with DNA from other species. When a young boy accidentally triggers their return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can prevent the end of the human race..
Plot: When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most lethal hunters’ return to Earth, only a ragtag crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled scientist can prevent the end of the human race.
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Ratings:

	5.3/10 Votes: 134,111
	33% | RottenTomatoes
	48/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3993 Popularity: 44.989 | TMDB

Reviews:

My mind was racing as I watched _The Predator_ in the cinema tonight. I’d heard virtually nothing good about it so my anxious brain kicked into overdrive the whole time the film was going on. As a result of that, I almost feel like I experienced three movies in that theatre. First, obviously the movie on the screen. Secondly, the awesome movie I was theorising could unfurl at the result of each new sequence and plot point, but that sadly never did. And thirdly, the inexcusably awful and franchise-ruining movie that I feared it was about to take a hard left turn into at any minute, and thankfully never did.

And that’s really my experience on _The Predator_ overall, and the reason for a stalemate “2.5 outta 5” review: It wasn’t as good as it should have been, it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. Unfortunately, when the movie I’m writing in my head alongside watching it is better than what’s actually on screen, when you take into account that I’m an unimaginative, talentless hack, really doesn’t cut it for a sequel to _Predator_, one of of only five movies I’ve ever given a perfect rating to.

The best parts of _The Predator_ are when there is an eponymous Predator on screen. So you might think, “Oh it’s not a good movie, but it’s a good _Predator_ movie”, and fair enough a conclusion to draw, but no. Part of the problem is, this movie really could have been pulled off with any aliens at all. Take out the Yautja and replace them with… I dunno, the blue skinned pogo-stick people of Planet Hurfadump, and it can still play out functionally the same. See, although I enjoyed watching the Predators do their thing, there was really nothing beyond cosmetic similarities that made them the Predators we’ve seen in every movie preceding this one.

I think possibly part of the reason for that is that every other movie with a Predator in it has been an Action Horror movie (albeit Action Horror with ever-increasing Sci-Fi elements from film to film) whereas _The Predator_ is an Action Comedy, just one with some gore. Now I don’t think that taking it that route was necessarily and… abysmal failure, let’s say, but was Action Comedy the **best** way to take the _Predator_ franchise? I think it’s pretty clear that the answer is no.

Ironic that that direction is being taken by Shane Black, the man who has a history with _Predator_ purely because the crew of the first film were determined to have him to work on the script, which he refused. Now here we are more 30 years later and Shane Black finally **has** put his name on a Predator movie, and it’s not even good.

Fuck. At least it’s better than _AvP: Requiem_!

Its just not good. The first predator created atmosphere; you were being hunted. The only “Predator” film to deliver another dose of this was Predators.
This film falls completely short of its predecessors (yes, all of them), but does leave you with a strong impression that this was a cash grab to squeeze any life out of a franchise that surpassed its EOL a long time ago.

Predator evolution
The ‘Predator’ film series is a mixed bag, with the best being the 1987 film (a great film on its own) and its follow-up, the only great ones from personal opinion. Was actually really intrigued into seeing ‘The Predator’, despite hearing numerous bad things about it, and saw it anyway with an open mind. Just to make that clear in answer to the condescending accusations made by those defending the film without taking into account that those who didn’t did see the film and simply didn’t like it legitimately.

Can totally see why many were disappointed and share a lot of the criticisms directed against it. Didn’t think it was that bad and it had its moments and decent assets, a 1-star film ‘The Predator’ isn’t. Although towards the weaker end ranking films from 2018 seen, it is not one of the worst, being better than ‘The First Purge’ and ‘Slender Man’. It’s not a good film, hugely disappointing in fact, and has a lot of issues. As a Predator film ‘The Predator’ is a disgrace, but as a standalone film judged on its own terms it also doesn’t work.

Before getting on to the faults, ‘The Predator’ has good points. It looks good, very slick and atmospheric with some of the effects being great and imposing.

At times, the action is fun and edge of your seat, contributing to the occasional glimpses of tension and excitement lacking elsewhere, with cohesive choreography and spectacular stunts. The film also begins promisingly, zippy in pace and quite thrilling.

When it comes to the predator, it is scary and imposing enough, as are the other creatures and their methods, and the gore does disturb and doesn’t feel too gratuitous.

However, Shane Black’s direction is constantly wayward and fails to generate much momentum, personality or clarity of storytelling. The character chemistry is not very natural and excepting perhaps Jacob Tremblay the acting doesn’t seem very engaged or at ease. The characters are sketchy in development, are very difficult to get behind and their credibility is zero. There is effort to develop them, but through very clumsily written, superficially soap-operatic and blatant exposition that doesn’t always feel necessary, adding nothing to the story or characters and failing to intrigue.

On top of that, the story, as well as being slight and at times sluggish, is far too complicated and busy which makes some of the film very hard to follow and at worst incoherent. There is lots of chaos and noise on the surface but no brains or soul underneath, while there is very little tension, suspense or surprises, relying on the action to make the film watchable which it marginally does. The atmosphere generally is bland and doesn’t evoke enough scares, not enough to bite the nails anyhow. Nothing memorable about the music and the basic concept doesn’t feel that much evolved, having not enough freshness, and it is too forgetful of what made the franchise at its best so great and too cheesy and bland to be a tribute or throwback.

It is the script that comes off the worst and nearly single-handedly brings ‘The Predator’ down, bad enough to warrant its own paragraph. It is far too talky in the exposition, it rambles often pointlessly and sometimes with not much cohesion, plausibility is as non-existent as the credibility, there is excessive sentimentality in spots and muddled moments and worst of all the over-reliance of humour. Next to none of the humour works which is a massive problem, it is eye-rollingly cheesy and not placed or timed very well too often, also being repetitive and distastefully vulgar.

Overall, not awful but mediocre. 4/10 Bethany Cox

Bad
One step above parody. Without question it’s the worst in the franchise.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min)
Budget 88000000
Revenue 160542134
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Director Shane Black
Writer Fred Dekker, Shane Black, Jim Thomas
Actors Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay
Country United States, Canada
Awards 1 win & 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Atmos, Dolby (Dolby 7.1 Surround Sound)
Aspect Ratio 2.39 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa Mini, Panavision Primo and Ultra Speed MKII Lenses, Arri Alexa XT, Panavision Primo and Ultra Speed MKII Lenses
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format CFast 2.0, Codex
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (3.4K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format)
Printed Film Format D-Cinema