Movie Review

This will be for the "Predator" Series:
Note: I'm not going to outline the plot, name characters, or that wort of thing. Go to the Internet Movie Database for that information.

PREDATOR

See this if you like:
Anything Schwarzenegger.
Action films, slightly sci-fi films, films with lots of guns.

Plot holes:
None outside of the usual Hollywood plot holes such as how many bullets can be fired from a magazine, or that mud could completely erase your heat signature. I chalk these up to exaggeration.

Comments:
Used to watch this a lot as a kid, with my brother, and our friend, Kevin.

PREDATOR II

See this if you like:
Action films, slightly sci-fi films, military films, films with lots of guns.
Danny Glover films before he came out as a raging libtard.

Plot holes:
The predator is less of a match for Danny Glover (a cop, in the movie), than the previous one had been for Arnold (a special ops soldier). Maybe because Glover had a bit more information on the Predators? No, I still don't think of Glover as more of an alpha-male than Schwarzenegger.

Comments:
This movie introduced the (sometimes controversial) notion that Predators hunt Aliens (aka Xenomorphs), when we see the skull of the Xenomorph in the Predator's spaceship. We see many other skulls in the ship, too.
The Predator also has a few more weapons this time, with the spear and the blade-disc (somewhat of a shuriken). These weapons are not often associated with hunting these days, and the concept surrounding predators is that they are hunters. This started the progression towards the concept that they are warriors, too. Of course, if one is hunting game that can fight back, the tools might more closely resemble a warrior's weapons.

ALIEN vs. PREDATOR

See this if you like:
Action films, sci-fi films, films with lots of guns.

Plot Holes:
The first two Predators get killed by a single Alien? Nope. Even with the fact that they don't have their guns, the Predators are (according to the story) warriors about 100 years old (young for Predators), and have been honing their skills and hunting increasingly more dangerous game for most of that time. Plus, one would have to believe the Predators have studied the Aliens, and would be prepared for them.
I could see the Predators making mistakes along the way and getting killed (maybe even like the first one did) by Aliens (hey, Aliens are pretty mean and very dangerous), but losing in one-on-one combat? Nope. Obvious plot hole to take the three predators down to one.
The Predator's spear and shuriken will slice through the Aliens, no problem; but their wrist blades get melted by the acidic blood? Nope.
Predator's gun gets destroyed way too easily. But then, the movie had a general anti-gun feel to it.
Predators do not check their dead for hidden chestbursters? Obvious plothole - they wanted a second AVP.

Comments:
I think I am the only person in the US that claims to like this movie - the critics and fanboys of the two franchises didn't like it.
A lot of people (fanboys, particularly) didn't like the backstory, so they went and researched the facts on pyramids and all that. Fine, but for someone who doesn't know, or otherwise care, it served its purpose.

ALIENS vs. PREDATOR: REQUIEM

See this if you like:
Action films, sci-fi films, films with lots of guns.

Plot Holes:
The Predator intentionally goes out on a "clean-up" mission. Alone. Without notifying any others for possible backup. Against a known deadly species. Nope - not buying it.
The Predator, on his "clean-up" mission, decides to go one-on-one with the Predalien Queen at the end. Nope, I don't buy that, either.
The Predator in the opening fires his gun, which blows a hole in the ship. I don't think he would have taken the risk. 
The Predator's weapons are all impervious to the Alien blood, unlike AVP. This is a plot hole more for AVP, than for AVPR.
Once again, the guns were too easily destroyed - but the director might have been trying to stay true to the first AVP film. Or, he might have been slightly anti-gun. Or, it was probably just a plot device so that the Predator was not so completely invincible as he really was.
Rifle bullets bounce off Predators. Yes, they are 5.56mm, but they would do some damage. The .308 hurt a Predator in the original movie, and the .338 did in "Predators."

Comments:
The director stated that after AVP, he wanted to get back to a more dominant Predator, as would be expected of a species that intentionally seeks out the galaxy's most dangerous game to hunt.
I loved the line: "The government doesn't lie to people!"

PREDATORS

See this if you like:
Action films, sci-fi films, films with lots of guns.

Plot Holes:
Predators have fewer weapons. The Director stated he wanted to get back to the feel of a real sequel to the original Predator film, and disregard what the AVP and AVPR movies added to the lore, but he only did this to his own liking, as other parts of the lore from AVP and AVPR were made note of later in the movie.
A medical doctor understands botany. On an alien planet. Or did Predators plant seeds on multiple planets, too?
Again, it seems we have magazines with limitless ammo in this one. I would pay a lot for one of those.
The Director said the AVP movies went in directions that were "too outlandish" yet added a tracker Predator and a Falconer Predator?
The minigun does not do the damage it would have really caused.

Comments:
I liked the idea of a planet as a game reserve. I liked that there were no Aliens on the planet - as they would have likely killed off all other large life forms, or have been killed off (if small in number) by the other dangerous beings.
I liked the fact that the characters got killed off in order of strength. Made sense.
I liked the .338 Lapua sniper rifle.