Kamandi73

This episode was more awful than the end of last season. I was hoping it would hit the ground running with the new guy, Hemsworth, but It seemed more confusing than ever. All the characters are off on their own tangents. It is a mess.

What's going on? Who knows. Mostly talk and soap opera drama. The first season of the Witcher was a great action TV series. I have seen it several times.

Second season was great, but by then too many characters and story lines diluted the Witcher into a supporting character of a soap opera of witches and warlocks fighting for power.

Now we get this, which is a full time soap opera drama. Maybe five minutes of action. You really need a scorecard to understand what is going on.

Tons of CGI action that just got my eyes tired. Predator loses all his gear when he makes camp in the middle of a nest of CGI plant monsters that are faster than vipers.

The rest of the movie, we are watching a mostly naked lizard / Predator fighting the planet's killer creatures. I was wondering if the Geico gecko was going to make a cameo.

The other main character is Dakota Fanning, playing some kind of android that got chopped in half. Predator spends most of the movie carrying her around on his back, and exchanging humor.

Predator is down to this, being treated more like a real "human" character but still a gnarly lizard. The suspense and scares that came in the first two Predator movies are gone. It is just CGI video game style action.

So all these characters that were supposedly immortals are aging out of their powers and trying to find ways to get their immortality back or to extend it. Now the great immortals are in cliques back-stabbing each other for extra life energy.

It certainly takes the shine off everything that made them special in the first movie if they are all grubbing for extra life energy.

Worse yet, suddenly there is a hall of heroes with thousands of books about hundreds of other immortals. Now they are all the great people of history.

There are also several other immortals that want to renew their grudges or love affairs with the original characters. After hundreds of years, they still yearn for love.

It turns out that Uma Thurman is the first immortal, and she pops up after thousands of years because she wants to collect all the other immortals and suck out their life force so she can live forever.

She does this by hijacking a nuclear energy plant so the others will show up to stop her. What happened to national security? Law enforcement??

Predictably, the good immortals go rescue the nuclear facility and Uma Thurman kicks Charlize Theron's face in over the course of several minutes of fighting. Charlize vows revenge (in the next movie).