Shane Black returns to the Predator franchise with surprisingly lackluster results. I mean, kudos to the Brother Strause for plastering R-rated gore all over the sequel, even if they go a little too far in their efforts to shock audiences - did we really need to see a dozen pregnant women give birth to alien offspring? But damned if the Predator action isn’t the best we’ve seen since the original Predator - and that’s really about all there is to say about this one. Yes, there’s a needless number of callbacks/homages to previous films.
Yes, the cast looks like they were plucked from every CW series in existence.
To think, 20th Century Fox passed up the opportunity to work with James Cameron and Ridley Scott on an Alien 5 for this garbage, which might be the worst entry in the Predator and Alien franchises. Human characters lack personality, the overly digital visuals give off an early-2000s vibe, and the plot revolving around pyramids buried beneath Antarctica sucks. Anderson’s creatively flaccid “franchise starter” to anything beyond the $5 bin at Wal-Mart. The novelty of seeing the famed xenomorph and Predator on screen together for the first time isn’t enough to propel Paul W.S. Well, maybe not AVP, but you get the gist 7. There are quite a few Predator films to sift through in this day and age, and while many of them suck, almost all bring something to the table. So yeah, definitely a little disappointed about that.Now that Prey has hit Hulu, it’s time to look back at the Predator franchise and snobbishly rank the films according to our personal tastes. I get that it would have probably felt a bit out of place to use the straight-up jungle drums, but even AVPR gave us Wolf's theme that felt very much like a Predator kinda tune while still being original.
Even the tracks that some people have said have subtle hints of Alan Silvestri's score I've listened to over and over and I still can't hear it. It's also a shame we didn't get anything whatsoever as far as themes from past movies go, or anything that really felt "Predator-y". Just seemed like "obligatory movie music" with nothing that really stood out. It was fine while I was watching it, but a few hours later I couldn't remember a single track or tune, and that's not something I couldn't say about any of the other Predator movies (and not just because half the tracks in Predators are re-used from the original). Posted Aug 07, 2022, 12:48:45 PM I'll have to pay more attention to it on a rewatch, because after my initial viewing I thought the score was one of the weakest aspects of the film.
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