2018 · sci-fi · action · thriller
The Predator
Directed by Shane Black1h 47m2018
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.
Our read: The Predator (2018) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive sci-fi · action · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme sci-fi / action, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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How The Predator feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want loud sci-fi action with creature fights and don't need prestige filmmaking.”
Skip it tonight — You hated the 1987 original and want coherent plotting instead of quips.
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