The Predator [SteelBook] [Includes Digital Copy] [4K Ultra HD Blu-ray/Blu-ray] [Only @ Best Buy] [2018]

This worked out perfect for me, my father has 4k TV and Blu-Ray player so he kept the box as 4k disc, while my sister has 1080 TV and regular DVD player so they were able to take that disc, and it came with digital code, which I was able to use in my Google Play Movies account. The movie was better than 2nd, but can anything really compare to the original, when everything we saw was new and exciting, now we kinda know about Predators, so they did good job of keeping movie interesting, while still making it so if you didn't see the first two you weren't lost.

I’ve been waiting for a new Predator movie, and this one doesn’t disappoint. But as much as I love the Predator, it’s the characters that make the movie. It’s off beat and funny but still a good Predator movie.

Funny full of action and crazy humor with a bunch of crazy people

Really cool a taste of the old with the new with a twist

This Movie is Awesome I’m in 4K HDR with Dolby Atmos and the Steelbook looks Amazing love the Design

Possible spoilers. I’m not sure we needed yet another “Predator” movie but as long as they continue to sell tickets, they’ll keep making them. This edition ignores the other sequels for the most part…certainly the cross-over movies involving the battles against the “Aliens.” The first “Predator” movie – the one with Arnold – is certainly the best. One of the things it had going for it was the absence of a visual creature until well into the movie. It’s just the opposite here. The film opens with some kind of dogfight in space between Predator creatures. One of the Predator’s is shot down and crashes on, where else, Earth. Just as a military unit is about to rescue a couple of people from some bad guys. Nothing is really clear here about what’s going on. The leader of the Army unit is a sniper named Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook). He escapes the crash and the Predator but loses his team as well as the people he was trying to rescue. When Quinn returns home to his headquarters, his explanation is questioned but we know from the get go that his primary adversary, Traeger (a menacing Sterling K. Brown), knows he’s telling the truth. But we can’t be spreading the truth about an interstellar killing machine that hunts humans (and other species) for sport. So Quinn is being shipped off on a bus to a mental facility along with some other military types who are a bit psychologically challenged. They include Nebraska (Trevante Rhodes), Coyle (Keegan-Michael Key), Baxley (Thomas Jane), Lynch (Alfie Allen) and Nettles (Augusto Aguilera). The film was directed and co-written by Shane Black who played one of the hapless soldiers in the original ’87 film. It would appear he wanted to inject some humor into this version and he succeeds, almost to a fault. Some of the early scenes are laugh out loud funny, especially those involving Coyle and Baxley. In the more dramatic action sequences in the final act, the humor had been over-cooked. Joining this motley crew is a biologist/geneticist named Casey Bracket (Olivia Munn) who proves she can fight and crack wise with the best of them. In the background is Quinn’s ex-wife, Emily (Yvonne Strahovski) and his young son Rory (Jacob Tremblay). Rory is borderline autistic, the kind that is picked on at school. A character we see often in movies and TV. But he’s also a wiz with electronics. Before dear old dad left the jungle and Predator, he managed to grab some Predator weapons and had them shipped back to his old house. Of course Rory opens the package and thinks it is some kind of video game. When he starts to play around with it, he sends a signal to the Predator about his location. Quinn, realizing his son is in jeopardy, escapes with his new friends from the bus. So now, the Predator, Traeger and Quinn and company make a bee-line for small town America. Another Predator also shows up and he’s bigger, stronger and meaner than the regulation Predator. It turns out that this bigger badder Pred has been playing around with alien species DNA, including human, to make it smarter and more adaptable. The smaller Predator evidently has sent something to the human population that will save them from his larger brothers. As convoluted as this all sounds, in the world of science fiction it somehow made sense to me. The screenplay has some big faults and there is no logic for much of the movie but it could have been a lot worse. As it is Black has a good sense for action (“Iron Man 3”). Unfortunately it starts and stops, sometimes to put another gag in. At the same time I was entertained. One thing remains constant in all of the Predator films. These alien creatures and near perfect killing machines and the “R” rating ensure plenty of splayed body parts.

I felt Predator was a very entertaining blockbuster film. This film has a more humorous bent than the previous one. I really did like Predators, but I prefer the tone of this film. It matches more of the over-the-top feel of the original and 2. They do add a few more jokes than those two, and a little too many of them have a frat bro/trying-to-be alpha dog mentality that can be a little exhausting. Still overall, it's pretty funny. There are some really impressive and violent fights. Current film technology is utilized to have the Predators do things they couldn't in previous films. The cast is all-around likable. Heck, I think this is the first time I found Olivia Munn fully utilized in a film. Admittedly, the pacing can be a little uneven at moments. There are points where the back-and-forth between characters could've been shorter and the scenes are rushed, including a death of a main character that's hit-and-miss. Also, the final scene setting up the sequel feels tacked-on and inorganic. Listen, if you're not interested in a humorous Predator film than this won't be for you. Personally, I went to be mindlessly entertained, and I was.

This movie is just different than the other entries in the Predator franchise. Let’s revisit quickly the ones before. Original Predator with Arnie is legendary, created one of the most awesome creatures on screen, could be considered as one of the best action films of all time, and has approx. a million quotable lines. Predator 2 is pretty good too although not up to the caliber of the first. Predators was a decent sequel, not as good as either of the first two, but not as bad as many would speculate. There were also two movies shared with aliens (AVP). Those were obviously spinoffs with the first not being too bad with an interesting story, but neither being too great at the same time. Now this new movie seems to have taken a comical tone. It is very obviously trying to be funny at nealry every turn. I think Shane Black knew he couldn’t do better than the original film so he went for something different and I’ll give him credit for that. Is it a great movie, no but it’s fine and enjoyable if you have an open mind. Just don’t expect too much and definitely don’t compare to the original film.