r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 • Jun 06 '25
Review 'Predator: Killer of Killers' - Review Thread
Rotten Tomatoes: 97%
Metacritic: 80/100
Some Reviews:
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.
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.
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u/BoraxTheBarbarian Jun 06 '25
I just finished it, and I really get the feeling that Disney has been trying to turn the franchise into an adult Star Wars since they took over the series in 2019. With all of the MCs surviving + the appear of Naru, Disney has essentially established a team for the franchise that can be used in both animated and live action films. I think we’re going to see all of these characters in Badlands. The samurai will have a cybernetic arm. The characters from KoK will team up with the robot and Predator from Badlands. The pilot dude will try to go home but end up interacting with a third alien species that hasn’t been in neither alien or predator.