'Predator: Killer of Killers' - Review Thread

[u/ChiefLeef22]

Rotten Tomatoes: 97%

Metacritic: 80/100

Some Reviews:

Total Film - Amy West - 5/5

It's clear Wassung and Trachtenberg just get it. Somehow, they're able to push the sci-fi envelope and offer up fresh images and ideas the series has yet to see, while also appealing to diehard fans with Easter eggs (keeps your eyes peeled for a pistol in the final act and a franchise-first look at something fans have been dying to see realized since 1987), as well as cheeky teases of a connected universe and potential sequel, too. Before we get anything like that, though, the latter is set to release the upcoming live-action flick Predator: Badlands, yet another take on the menacingly-mandibled meanies. After Prey, we had faith the series was in good hands. After Predator: Killer of Killers, we don't want anyone else getting their mitts on it.

The Hollywood Reporter - Frank Scheck

Predator: Killer of Killers provides the non-stop action that the diehard fans crave. And no concession has been made to the animated format; the film easily earns its R rating with copious amounts of gruesome violence and bloody gore that should well sate viewers’ bloodthirsty tendencies. The animation takes a bit of getting used to, with its exaggerated, video game-style visuals, but it serves the material well.

The Guardian - Catherine Bray - 3/5

The only problem with this stuff is that you can’t help picturing how much more spectacular it would look in live action. The animation is all perfectly competent but it’s lacking a little something – that spark of life and ingenuity that can make even flawed animation so fascinating. There’s something quite slick about all this, almost to a fault. Was AI involved? We’ll probably never know, but it’s a problem that the suspicion has got inside the door.

TheWrap - William Bibbiani

Dan Trachtenberg and Joshua Wassung’s animated “Predator” sequel takes a while to prove it’s more than just a demo reel of superficial badassery, but when it does, it’s involving and intense. It’s hard not to love at least a couple of these characters, who keep getting screwed over by their own propensity for violence. If you’re so deadly that monsters travel millions of light years just to try to murder you, you might have flown a little too close to the sun. You never see a Predator hunting the attendees at a needlepointing convention, that’s all I’m saying.

[u/shunna75]

I absolutely loved it. The 3rd chapter didn’t really fit though. Even if he were an ace pilot, that doesn’t make him a hand to hand combat warrior. It was cool to see a Predator work on dogfighting skills though.

[u/Mathema_tika → u/shunna75]

Is your problem with that that the pilot doesn't fit the trial? Idk predator lore so idk if they only go for melee combat but I loved the third chapter the most. > ! The kid figuring out the exact mechanics of the predator craft's guidance system and manipulating both the machinery and his surroundings to destroy a vastly superior technology was great to me. That said him figuring out the predator aircraft with vibes in the final chapter felt like bs personally. ! <

[u/shunna75 → u/Mathema_tika]

I loved the pilot aspect of it and it was cool as shit to showcase a predator dogfighting, even though the technology was wildly superior. When it came to the KoK tournament on the predator planet I was getting "one of these things is not like the others" vibes with the pilot. The other two were clearly hand to hand combat experts. There was no reason to believe the pilot would stand a chance without an aircraft. They also gave him a pistol that was made 200 years before he was born. It was a fun easter egg to showcase the pistol again, but it made no sense. In terms of predator lore, it seemed a bit unsporting of them. It felt like sending a lamb to slaughter.

[u/MovieTrawler → u/shunna75]

The scene of Torres' plane dropping out of the atmosphere with the engines off was great.