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My wife and I decided to watch this based on the Xmas theme and the cast. Neither of us laughed or even chuckled at any point. I was ready to give up about 2/3s in, but my wife gritted her teeth and insisted we get through it.

There isn't an actor alive who could bring life to the abysmal script and the pedestrian directing here. How/why did so many otherwise competent or talented actors sign on to this dreck?

Even the message of the movie is muddied by the motivations and antics of the unlikeable characters.

The movie references many classic Christmas movies in a scene near the beginning. It would be better to rewatch any one of them than this miserable piece of work.

I enjoyed the first movie.

However, subsequent movies revealed the flaw behind the premise of this franchise.

These aliens are supposed to be the most feared hunters in the galaxy.

Why would they even bother hunting humans? With their advanced tech, it would be the equivalent of a big game hunter going after gophers or squirrels. Where's the challenge in that? How does it serve their culture... their guiding warrior philosophy... if they only test themselves against the most primitive of cultures?

At least in the first movie, the sole Predator used only his weapons on hand to take on the squad. In this movie, they use all manor of exotic weaponry and aircraft to hunt humans.

Of course, the humans overcome through practical intelligence combined with a lot of luck and big doses of deus ex machina so there's not much emotional investment here.

If you read the 10/10 reviews for this movie here you'll notice that most of them were written within a 2-week stretch of each other and that many of them use the same phrases in their titles and descriptions. I'm guessing the filmmakers asked all their friends and family at once to submit reviews for the movie.

My wife and I decided to watch this mostly on the basis of the well known actors in the cast. If we had paid more attention, we would have realized that most of these actors are decades past their prime years and were probably on board the movie to collect an easy paycheque.

This movie is absolute s**t. It's a much more boring version of Becky which itself was only moderately entertaining. The main character grates on your nerves. The rest of the cast indulge in a lot of overacting.

My wife and I have a high tolerance for mediocrity, but even we gave up on it with forty minutes left to go.