Predators 2010

Critics score:
64 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: All these years after Predator, these decades past the classic film, Most Dangerous Game, that inspired this genre, it's good to see the idea of the hunter becoming the hunted still gets the blood racing. Read more

Michael Phillips, At the Movies: At the midpoint... it got more and more confined, claustrophobic and flatter. Read more

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Predators is just another movie-machine, running on action formula. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: This chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: The odor of musty, late-'80s nostalgia may still hover around this already threadbare brand, but you simply don't see movies that leave both the curious and the fans who truly care this viscerally satisfied anymore. Read more

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: There isn't anything as comically grisly as the exploding head or Carl Weathers' arm removal, both well-remembered moments from the original Predator. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: After so many iterations in every possible medium, the Predator series needed a shot of vitality, not another workmanlike go-around. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Predators is a pretty good action movie for about 45 minutes. Unfortunately, it lasts 106. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Antal is a professional who respects your dollars. In a season where the blockbusters are as flat as month-old soda, that's the most romantic gesture a commercial filmmaker can make. Read more

Cliff Doerksen, Chicago Reader: The dialogue is dumber than dirt, and the plot crumbles at the halfway mark, but the movie does what a loud summer blockbuster should, which is loudly bust blocks. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Some genre movies simply work out this way: Whatever their intentions or origins they percolate for about an hour. And then they sputter and hope that a promising first half will be enough to get by. Read more

Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: None of this is scary, and nothing makes sense. Read more

Christopher Kelly, Dallas Morning News: Predators mostly just suggests a bunch of grown-up men playing with toys and not bothering to invite the rest of us into their circle. Read more

Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: A stylish, lean and, well, familiar outing. Read more

Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: As 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. Read more

Laremy Legel, Film.com: Predators needed more predators. Read more

Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: 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. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It's silly, bloody fun. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Predators tries to spice up the hunt-or-be-hunted thesis, but from the get-go, director Nimrod Antal's movie has nowhere to run. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: After 23 years and three attempts, Predators finally delivers a solid sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger B-movie classic. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: Predator purists (is that an oxymoron?) have nothing to fear: This is a worthy follow-up. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Predator fans, fearing another lapse into disappointment, can relax. Although it's arguably not saying much, this is the second-best movie of the series to have "Predator" in the title. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Fanboys will jump foursquare upon this movie, rolling around barking in delight and waving their collective paws in the air. That's me over there, third from the left. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: It has fun showing us that humans can, indeed, be the most dangerous game. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Antal leaves the door wide open for a sequel, which is good news for fans of the genre. But please, don't invite the Alien to the party. Read more

Nigel Floyd, Time Out: This is the sequel that John McTiernan and Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1987 original deserved, as director Nimrod Antal delivers enough hard core sci-fi, explosive action and monster mayhem to justify its belated arrival. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: What starts with so much promise and intrigue devolves into a more predictable cat- and-mouse game. The fascination wears off as the initial premise never becomes fleshed out and plot holes loom larger than the monstrous mayhem. Read more

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Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Predators is good if gory grindhouse fun. It tweaks the conventions of the summer monster movie, even as it observes them. Read more