{"id":39092,"date":"2025-06-12T12:03:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39092"},"modified":"2025-06-12T12:03:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T16:03:21","slug":"predator-killer-of-killers-2025-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39092","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Predator: Killer of Killers&#8221; (2025) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z061225zview_predator_kok.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Predator: Killer of Killers <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Dan Trachtenberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Micho Robert Rutare, <\/strong>story by <strong>Dan Trachtenberg, Micho Robert Rutare,<\/strong> based on characters created by <strong>Jim Thomas, John Thomas<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: Voices of <strong>Michael Biehn, Doug Cockle, Rick Gonzalez<\/strong><strong>, Lauren Holt, Lindsay LaVanchy, Jeff Leach, Piotr Michael <\/strong>and <strong>Andrew Morgado<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>Hunt the enemy, before they hunt you!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the year 841, Vikings, led by warrior woman Ursa, have just defeated the Krivich clan.\u00a0 The Krivich&#8217;s leader, Zoran killed Ursa&#8217;s father when she was a child.\u00a0 Now Ursa and her son Anders will have revenge. A Predator is invisibly watching. Once a victor has been determined, the Predator will attack.\u00a0 It will be a vicious battle to the death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 1629, Kenji returns to confront his brother.\u00a0 Twenty years prior, Kenji and his brother Kiyoshi had been boys.\u00a0 Each child was given a sword. Ordered to battle.\u00a0 The winner would become the clan&#8217;s new Warlord.\u00a0 Kenji refused to fight, even as Kiyoshi attacked.\u00a0 Rather than battle his brother, Kenji ran off.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now Kenji sneaks into his brother&#8217;s fortress.\u00a0 As the brothers battle, a Predator, undetected, silently watches.\u00a0 The predator will fight the winner to the death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The year is 1941.\u00a0 World War II rages.\u00a0 A small group of US Airmen take off to engage the enemy in aerial battle.\u00a0 \u00a0On the ground, mechanic John Torres sees a strange craft destroying both US and enemy planes.\u00a0 Torres gets a beat-up plane working.\u00a0 He takes off to warn his squad. When Torres arrives, he and Captain Vandy are the only survivors.\u00a0 The Predator space ship is ready to engage them.\u00a0 It will be a fight to the death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ursa, Kenji and Torres are awakened from suspended animation.\u00a0 They are on a foreign planet.\u00a0 Predators led the three to the center of an arena.\u00a0 A large Predator incites the crowd.\u00a0 Ursa, Kenji and Torres will fight to the death.\u00a0 The winner will face the Predator gladiator\/warlord.\u00a0 To make it even more interesting, a giant dragon-like beast is released.\u00a0 Who\/what will survive?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Biehn now joins Bill Paxton and Lance Henriksen as the only actors to have roles in <em>Alien, Terminator<\/em> and <em>Predator<\/em> films.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Predator: Killer of Killers<\/em> has many Easter eggs that are open to speculation.\u00a0 Is the Gladiator Predator wearing a cape made of Xenomorph tails? In one of the Predator cryo-tanks we get a glimpse of a muscular make human.\u00a0 Is he Dutch from <em>Predator<\/em>? Maybe it is Royce from <em>Predators<\/em>? Naru from <em>Prey<\/em> is definitely in one of the cryo-tanks.\u00a0 The flintlock pistol from <em>Predator 2<\/em> and <em>Prey<\/em> makes an appearance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I liked <em>Predator: Killer of Killers<\/em>, but not as much as most folks.\u00a0 It currently has a 7.6 rating on IMDb and at Rotten Tomatoes in has a 95% rating from reviewers and 90% from viewers. There were too many unanswered questions (including the final resolution) for my taste.\u00a0 Still, I enjoyed the film, just not as much as most everyone else.\u00a0 Your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><em><strong>Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) <\/strong><\/em>rates 3 of 5 stars<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z061225zview_predator_kok2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"219\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predator: Killer of Killers (2025) Director:\u00a0 Dan Trachtenberg Screenplay: Micho Robert Rutare, story by Dan Trachtenberg, Micho Robert Rutare, based<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39092"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39093,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39092\/revisions\/39093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}