Review of The Predator

The special effects team and the actors are to be commended. They did great work with what they had. It would be one thing if this was at least a new continuity. But it wasn't meant to be. And even forgiving the throwing away of 31 years of continuity and slapping around the creatures who practically created the intergalactic hunter trope, the writing was generally flat, "the Looneys" were insulting renditions of mental health that felt like they came from some 8th grader in the early 2000's who watched too much South Park, and as somebody with it, good god. Every time the main protagonist's son or the glorification of his Autism came up I felt myself sinking into my theater seat in shame. It was just all around a terrible portrayal and the "next step in human evolution" nonsense was just... So stupid. This has outright never happened to me watching any movie before. So I can't help but feel some extra, admittedly bias spite.