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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanA solidly okay Saturday night effort, but unambitious considering the talent involved. Maybe Rodriguez should direct Predator Resurrection, but get a science fiction writer to script it.
- 50Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie is mostly about our nasty heroes being attacked by terrifying antagonists in incomprehensible muddles of lightning-fast special effects. It lacks the quiet suspense of the first “Predator,” and please don't even mention the “Alien vs. Predator” pictures, which lacked the subtlety of “Mothra vs. Godzilla.”
- 50Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzA pretty good action movie for about 45 minutes. Unfortunately, it lasts 106.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsPredators, plural, starts well and ends poorly, and in the middle it's in the middle.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenThe Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenVery much bearing the creative imprint of Robert Rodriguez, but directed by Nimrod Antal, the new edition, in its best moments, is an unabashed B-movie that plays like a jacked-up "Twilight Zone" with award-winning actors delivering the pulp-infused dialogue.
- 50Miami HeraldConnie OgleMiami HeraldConnie OgleLittle happens that you don't see coming, down to which cast members will get picked off and in what order. It's a dumb action movie in a summer full of dumb movies, and yet it's always entertaining. And you won't really miss Arnold at all.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe Predator series needed a shot of vitality, not another workmanlike go-around. SSDP: Same shit, different planet.
- 50VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyPerfs are adequate in a movie lacking much use for better ones, though Brody disappoints by using the stock sotto voce rasp of the uber-macho action hero who really, really means business.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyEntertainment WeeklyAs a fan of Schwarzenegger's macho, heart-of-darkness original, it gives me no pleasure to say that Predators is an uninspired mess of mediocre action scenes strung together until the final reel.
- 25Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallTampa Bay TimesSteve PersallAs far as unnecessary movies go, Predators is a pip.