Quote from: Huggs on Sep 14, 2018, 04:25:04 AMI have my doubts. At least Alien 3 took itself seriously and still fits well within the lore and spirit of the franchise. This movie has Jeepers Creepers 3 written all over it. The bad dialogue, cheesy effects, crazy predator abilities, like the creeper's "seeker mines" etc.
The dialogue, most of it anyway, is class. The effects are uniformly decent. The Predators don't really display any "crazy new abilities". The only moment where the film really jumps outside the box is in the final two minutes.
People are really blowing the comedy thing out of proportion. Yes there's lots of funny lines in it, but there were lots of funny lines in
Lethal Weapon and
The Nice Guys, and they're still really dark, serious movies at heart. Plus the previous
Predator films, the first two anyway, had plenty of comedic dialogue in them.
As for the reshoots, having watching the film, it felt like far more than the final act had been fiddled with. The film was littered with scenes that felt like they'd been edited in post. I really got the overriding impression it was a movie that had been majorly trimmed for time, like the studio panicked and had it cut down to maximise the number of times they could show it in a day. It's a story we've heard plenty of times before, and how often has it turned out for the best?