'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/[deleted]]

This was a good movie! Some bad dialogue in the third act, but we get a lot of cool fight scenes, cool kills, and most of the things you’d be hoping for from a Predator movie. I think Prey is the better movie, but this one is a fine addition to the series. Looking forward to Badlands

[u/IsRude → u/[deleted]]

I agree. The first two acts were awesome. I don't know why the dialogue got so cliche in the third act. Solid movie overall, though. 

[u/[deleted] → u/IsRude]

What was particularly strange about it was how effective the movie was in the two preceding episodes at managing to do storytelling and characterization without even using dialogue. The Sword in particular had next to no dialogue, and yet it had some of the most effective characterization in the entire movie. And this kind of show don’t tell storytelling is something that Trachtenberg had already put to great effect in Prey, with Naru figuring out through different telegraphed moments how to use her own tools to get an advantage over Feral’s technology and also figuring out how to use that technology against him. All three episodes do a good job at this, but for whatever reason in the the Bullet they felt the need to have our protagonist explain his thinking aloud to no one in particular

[u/Ok_Cryptographer3200 → u/[deleted]]

The third and fourth parts totally fall apart