As much as I hate to admit it, the movie is slighty dark, but of course like you said it's not as dark as AVP-R which is great. Because if it was, I would trash this movie in a second. Even the darkest scenes in Predators you can still see whats going on and enjoy it.
Which leaves me to believe maybe it's Dan Zimmerman. He was the only one HACK from AVP-R who came back to edit Predators. Whats the deal with all darkness, is this like a new thing for the Alien and Predator franchise at Fox, make the final print darker?
Why? I don't get it. if you notice the DVD or blu-ray, when you skip to a chapter you see a snap shot of how the movie was really intended to look like and it's much brighter and richer in visuals.
Look, all in all, it's really nothing to worry about, it still looks good. But once again, some of the nightime visual impact was choked needlessly, just not as bad.
So I'd say we got lucky.