{"id":29911,"date":"2022-06-06T07:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29911"},"modified":"2022-06-06T08:30:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T12:30:24","slug":"the-predator-2018-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29911","title":{"rendered":"“The Predator” (2018) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Predator <\/strong><\/em>(2018)<\/p>\n

Director:\u00a0 Shane Black<\/strong><\/p>\n

Screenplay:\u00a0 Fred Dekker<\/strong>, Shane Black\u00a0<\/strong>based on characters created by Jim Thomas, John Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n

Starring: Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen,<\/strong>\u00a0Jake Busey\u00a0<\/strong>and Yvonne Strahovski<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tagline:\u00a0\u00a0 You’ll never see him coming.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n

While on a rescue mission, Quint McKenna (Holbrook) and his team are attacked by a Predator.\u00a0 Against all odds, McKenna escapes with his life as well as a Predator faceplate and armor.\u00a0 McKenna is sure no one will believe his story about an alien encounter so he mails the Predator gear to himself.\u00a0 McKenna’s plan is to get home and collect the package before his estranged wife, Emily ( Strahovski) gets to it.<\/p>\n

McKenna’s plan is foiled when he is picked up for debriefing.\u00a0 Meanwhile at home, McKenna’s son opens the package and accidentally triggers the alien technology.\u00a0 At his debriefing McKenna tells about his team’s encounter with the Predator. He is then placed in a group of soldiers with mental issues.\u00a0 Meanwhile in another part of the facility, a sedated Predator is being prepped for examination.\u00a0 The Predator wakes up, breaks it’s bonds and kills anyone in it’s way as it escapes.<\/p>\n

McKenna is telling the other soldiers about his run-in with the Predator and they’re all laughing at the “real” nut among them… until they see the Predator jumping out of a lab window.\u00a0 McKenna and the crazy soldiers take-over a bus and give chase.\u00a0 The Predator escapes and McKenna realizes it is after the armor he mailed to himself.\u00a0 McKenna and the “loonie” soldiers are the kid’s only chance for survival.<\/p>\n

Man, I really had high expectations for The Predator.<\/em>\u00a0 Shane Black as the director and co-writer of the screenplay!\u00a0 It had a good cast (Boyd Holbrook, Sterling K. Brown and Thomas Jane to name three).\u00a0 What could go wrong?<\/p>\n

The Predator<\/em> starts out okay.\u00a0 But as the movie rolls along it comes off the rails.<\/p>\n