This film absolutely sucked. It completely made the Predators as a whole completely laughable as a threat now, with any mystery to them now completely gone. The whole subplot of them wanting autism DNA because it will make them smarter was f**king stupid. That's not what autism does. Not everyone with autism is Rain Man. The bigger Predator could have been interesting if they played their cards right as a rogue mutant hunting other Predators and was the actual criminal. Every single character Shane Black made here was like he took the small scenes of banter from the first movie and decided that should just be how everyone talks the whole movie. Just constant shitty jokes one after the other with no real sense of fear or tension when they're up against this unstoppable hunter. Even the villain of the movie is making stupid jokes calling them Predators because it sounds cool. I hate to say it but at least when it came to the bad movies like AVPR the Predators were treated seriously and people were actually afraid of them.
The dogs were the worst part of the movie and just came off as another annoying piece of CGI wiggling all over the screen left over from the Star Wars prequels. We had dogs in the last movie, and despite them not needed there they looked better and were handled with more tact. The biggest thing this movie lacked was suspense. When everyone is constantly chasing after the monster and not away from it, it makes the Predator look like a big pussy.
I will take away from this that the movie had one good scene. When the Predator wakes up and murders everyone in the base.
Remove the kid, remove the humor, remove the dogs, restructure the story of the mutant Predator, change the ending, and f**king remove the autism plot.
2/5
