Killer of Killers

I just watched this and overall it was good. I really liked how they incorporated different Yautjas species, styles and weapons in each story. The Japan story was by far my favorite. Ever since I watched Predators and they had the short fight scene with the Yakuza clan member I always thought it would've been really cool for a Yautja to face off against a highly trained ninja. The roof parkour and red smoke bombs were awesome. My least favorite story was the WWII story. There ain't no damn way a WWII propeller plane is going to put up that kind of fight against a Yautja ship. They should've changed the timeframe to modern jets or something. I don't know. I just wasn't feeling that one as much.

I liked the ending story and what they showed the Yautjas does with victors to give a call back to Prey. Overall good watch.

About to watch this....

I'm hyped.

Fun facts...

- The alpha Yuatja or the elder in the last story...his cape/cloak is made of xenomorph tails.

- In the Japanese story the voices for the brothers Kenji and Kiyoshi was voiced by Louis Ozawa Changchien who played as Hanzo the Yakuza clan member in Predators

disappointed because I want more...

This should not have been a movie... It needed to be several episodes... so the final battle seemed kinda rushed.

lmao that the kid got the famous pirate gun for his weapon.




They had something great here, but could've been delivered better... and it looks as if they were setting up Badlands to some degree.

I'm confident we will get a sequel... so many timelines that could be explored.

I was very entertained, just want more.




Marvel has 3 seasons of "What If?" 26 episodes total... Not all of the episodes were great, but the animation & style was quality in each one. Predator should've taken a similar approach.

[QUOTE=Doomsday Dallas;15012355]I'm confident we will get a sequel... so many timelines that could be explored.[/QUOTE]

I totally misunderstood until the end of the movie. At first I thought the Yuatja time traveled and plucked those three from three different eras of time, but what it looks like they actually did was freeze them like they showed Naru at the end from Prey and just wake those three up and dumped them in the arena.

[QUOTE=Meticode;15012357]I totally misunderstood until the end of the movie. At first I thought the Yuatja time traveled and plucked those three from three different eras of time, but what it looks like they actually did was freeze them like they showed Naru at the end from Prey and just wake those three up and dumped them in the arena.[/QUOTE]


Yea the ending kinda gave me a Raiders of the Lost Ark type of feeling... they had a bunch of humans in their vault as their artifacts.... was thinking Dutch was gonna be one of them for a second.

[QUOTE=Meticode;15012279]My least favorite story was the WWII story. There ain't no damn way a WWII propeller plane is going to put up that kind of fight against a Yautja ship. They should've changed the timeframe to modern jets or something. I don't know. I just wasn't feeling that one as much.[/QUOTE]

I agree with what you are saying... but I did like how the Predator was hunting with the ship... which is not how Predator's typically hunt, but for some reason I thought this change of hunting worked, and would only work in the form of a cartoon.

if they had a $200 million budget to make a Top Gun/Maverick vs Predator Ship type of movie... I don't see how they could make it work... so for the sake of this cartoon, it didn't bother me (except how he climbed out on to the wing midair)

While it was the worst of the 3 .... I still enjoyed it.



What doesn't work are predator dogs or Predator Hounds... which were in The Predator and Predators.... those are terrible.

[video=youtube;MPlQJuLBRh0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPlQJuLBRh0[/video]

been awhile since I've stopped by the Magnus review channel.

He had a problem with the woke element which I actually noticed too lol.



He says 3.5/5 if it wasn't woke (2.5/5)..... I'll give it 8/10.

[QUOTE=Doomsday Dallas;15012362][video=youtube;MPlQJuLBRh0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPlQJuLBRh0[/video]

been awhile since I've stopped by the Magnus review channel.

He had a problem with the woke element which I actually noticed too lol.



He says 3.5/5 if it wasn't woke (2.5/5)..... I'll give it 8/10.[/QUOTE]

I'm going to disagree with Tyrone here.

The main reason is he's been super anti-woke for a hot minute. If they show a strong woman he's almost exclusively against it and labeling woke.

Secondly female Viking warriors actually existed and they were called Valkyries or Shield Maidens like in the film. It's not like the writing forced a woman in a role that they didn't inhabit in real life. Female Viking warriors existed and they were ruthless.

Her killing several men in the charge scene was awesome and it wouldn't be realistic even if it was a man doing it much less a woman.

Him putting down 1/3 of the movie because he's super anti-woke when I don't think it was woke at all is rubbish to me.

Saw it last night, didn't have high expectations and really enjoyed it as well as the implications for a follow-up. Will we see Dutch or Harrigan? What about Adrian Brody's character in Predators since that movie ended on somewhat of a cliffhanger?

@Meticode I agree with you about the WWII story, that was my least favorite section. Frankly I could have watched the entire movie set in Japan, I've been saying in my own circles for years that they should have made a 'Predator in feudal Japan' movie ages ago.

[QUOTE=Meticode;15012370]I'm going to disagree with Tyrone here.

The main reason is he's been super anti-woke for a hot minute. If they show a strong woman he's almost exclusively against it and labeling woke.

Secondly female Viking warriors actually existed and they were called Valkyries or Shield Maidens like in the film. It's not like the writing forced a woman in a role that they didn't inhabit in real life. Female Viking warriors existed and they were ruthless.

Her killing several men in the charge scene was awesome and it wouldn't be realistic even if it was a man doing it much less a woman.

Him putting down 1/3 of the movie because he's super anti-woke when I don't think it was woke at all is rubbish to me.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, these tubers are feeding the algorithm and 'anti-woke' is in now with the current political climate. As you said, while I can definitely agree that Hollywood went over the line years ago with 'actual' woke stuff, female Vikings were a thing so it's not like they depicted a woman in a completely unrealistic situation.

[QUOTE=Meticode;15012370]I'm going to disagree with Tyrone here.

The main reason is he's been super anti-woke for a hot minute. If they show a strong woman he's almost exclusively against it and labeling woke.

Secondly female Viking warriors actually existed and they were called Valkyries or Shield Maidens like in the film. It's not like the writing forced a woman in a role that they didn't inhabit in real life. Female Viking warriors existed and they were ruthless.

Her killing several men in the charge scene was awesome and it wouldn't be realistic even if it was a man doing it much less a woman.

Him putting down 1/3 of the movie because he's super anti-woke when I don't think it was woke at all is rubbish to me.[/QUOTE]



I haven't seen his channel in forever... and don't get me wrong, you're talking to a guy that originally didn't notice how extremely woke Terminator Dark Fate was when he watched it.... so it's very hard for the woke element to deduct points off a film's score for me personally. Usually those types of woke things are noticed in a collection films & shows like MCU and Star Wars. I think the wokeness started to peak in the MCU whenever I watched the She-Hulk show.

But... I didn't know Magnus had gone down the anti-woke path to this degree... I use to watch his channel alot for movie reviews & commentary. Either way, the strong female character (which you point out did exist in the viking days) didn't bother me in Killer of Killers, but did become more noticeable in the final battle between the 3.

[QUOTE=Doomsday Dallas;15012384]I haven't seen his channel in forever... and don't get me wrong, you're talking to a guy that originally didn't notice how extremely woke Terminator Dark Fate was when he watched it.... so it's very hard for the woke element to deduct points off a film's score for me personally. Usually those types of woke things are noticed in a collection films & shows like MCU and Star Wars. I think the wokeness started to peak in the MCU whenever I watched the She-Hulk show.

But... I didn't know Magnus had gone down the anti-woke path to this degree... I use to watch his channel alot for movie reviews & commentary. Either way, the strong female character (which you point out did exist in the viking days) didn't bother me in Killer of Killers, but did become more noticeable in the final battle between the 3.[/QUOTE]

'Woke' in retrospect basically started with the female Ghostbusters movie IIRC, but at that time I didn't really know that's what it was( and I reckon many of us didn't know what was coming).

[QUOTE=Phoenix;15012382]Yeah, these tubers are feeding the algorithm and 'anti-woke' is in now with the current political climate. As you said, while I can definitely agree that Hollywood went over the line years ago with 'actual' woke stuff, female Vikings were a thing so it's not like they depicted a woman in a completely unrealistic situation.[/QUOTE]


Take the movie EndGame for example...

Most people had a problem with all the Female characters uniting for a Super Girl-Power moment... which was at the the end of the film.

[img]https://images.thedirect.com/media/photos/avengers-a-force.jpg[/img]




My biggest problem with Wokeness in EndGame was in the the very beginning of the film lol.

[video=youtube;ODEKCA8pAHs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODEKCA8pAHs[/video]


Here we have the most anticipated comic book movie of all time... and the director is talking about his Gay Date and weak Man-Crying in the opening scene.

It's completely unnecessary, unneeded and made me cringe.... This is the type of $hit that completely ruined the show "The Last of Us"

[QUOTE=Phoenix;15012385]'Woke' in retrospect basically started with the female Ghostbusters movie IIRC, but at that time I didn't really know that's what it was( and I reckon many of us didn't know what was coming).[/QUOTE]

They still keep churning out garbage..Snow Brown being the most recent bad example. I'm sure the M-She-U will keep doing woke.