90% on Rotten Tomatoes

Started to eat itself?

That started 35 years.

I swear to god, Predator is a hunter on safari who is killing 80s action heroes for sport. Anything else is just silly. The first movie was great, the second one was a mess and all the rest have been absolutely garbage. Prey was better than all the sequels but even it lacked.

Just stop all ready.

I don't understand why they need to try so hard to make people connect with the Yautja. Give us the terrifying, technologically advanced hunters with a hard-on for honor big enough to make a Klingon blush.

You don't even need to make a complex plot. Follow a young member of the species on their first hunt, work up from there. Grow the threats, show the struggle, give us what we want out of a Predator. If you want to add a bit of complexity, have our main character have to tangle with some Bad Bloods of equal skill and threat.

It's a species perfectly built for some action-y fun, with the horror and tension coming from the species they're facing and the struggles therein.

I know to take movie critic's reviews with a huge grain of salt. Hope that's the case here. Was really crossing my fingers this would be an adrenaline packed addition to the franchise. The trailers had me pumped. There's nothing like a high octane badass movie with a badass being a badass on some badass quest, ideally with some sacrifice at the end to really drive it home.

I'm gonna watch it regardless, but gonna need to read more reviews to see if I'm gonna pop for the IMAX experience.

This is a movie I'm definitely going to stream once the high seas get a hold of it, but it's definitely every monster that's not Predator that I'm interested in seeing on screen.