Review of The Predator (2018) by Ajzeg01 — 15 Sep 2019

I’m gonna start this off by saying that I’m not a huge fan of the Predator movies (I’m more into Alien) but I’ve liked all the movies I’ve seen from the series. I like the original a lot, I haven’t seen the second one, Alien vs Predator is a guilty pleasure of mine, I haven’t seen the second one, and I thought Predators was okay.

As for The Predator, it was definitely a bad movie, but I actually thought it was pretty funny. A lot of the intentional Marvel-style humour fell pretty flat for me, but there’s another aspect of the film that I found pretty hilarious.

One of the main characters is an autistic kid, but he’s movie autistic. He’s shy, he gets bullied and he can’t handle loud noises (except for explosions apparently?), but he’s actually a genius.

Pretty stereotypical portrayal. Mary & Max and Ready Player One did it a lot better. What makes it hilarious is how they use his autism as a plot device. How can he figure out how to use the Predator technology? Autism.

Why is the Predator after him? Also autism. Why? Get this. They are using humans to make super-powerful hybrid Predators and one of them wants to use the power of autism to make them even stronger. Yes, you heard that right, the Predator wants to weaponize autism.

But that’s not all! There’s also an environmental message and a cute animal sidekick! I swear, I’m not making any of this up! This movie’s plot is insane! As for the rest of the movie, it was honestly nothing special at all.

It’s pretty much just a generic action movie. There are some neat practical effects, but there’s also a lot of bad CGI. I didn’t care about any of the characters, but there were some good kills.

This movie wasn’t a bad way to kill 100 minutes, but if you don’t like so-bad-it’s-good type movies, I’d say just stick with the original.