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Every Predator Movie, Ranked
Predator: Killer of Killers doesn’t feel the need to tie itself closely to the larger universe — and that’s a good thing.
Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Keegan-Michael Key, and Olivia Munn make for a suitably endearing ragtag team who take on the Predator, but the film lacked the inspired mayhem of Black’s best work, trying so hard to re-create the anything-goes mentality of ’80s flicks that it never feels like anything other than pastiche. That screenplay sat around for 15 years until Fox executives told Rodriguez they’d like to make it: With some tweaks, and Hungarian director Nimrod Antal behind the camera, they rebooted the franchise armed with an impressive cast, including Laurence Fishburne, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Danny Trejo, Topher Grace, a then-unknown Mahershala Ali, and a wildly muscled-up Adrien Brody, if you can imagine such a thing. Once Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, and the rest of his cohort get eliminated, Dutch basically has to become a feral animal to combat the Predator, a transformation that brings out a wildness and unexpected vulnerability in that decade’s most pumped-up action hero.
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