I do not envy anyone writing a horror franchise, much less those writing on one that only has one good installment like “Predator.” John McTiernan‘s 1987 film with Arnold Schwarzenegger is god-tier classic.
Still, unlike James Cameron’s “Aliens,” this franchise was never able to find a second installment that breathed new life into it.
Each of the four iterations that have followed, “Predator 2,” “Predators” and most recently Shane Black’s “The Predator” in 2018, have all been largely uninspired riffs on a ragtag motley crew of disparate people that get picked off by the alien in question with little in the way of thrills or surprises.
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