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While it has shortcomings, Shane Black's The Predator is a far better sequel than many give it credit for, and one fans should give another shot.

The basics of THE PREDATOR are that the action, the fighting, the gore, the jokes, and the performances are really quite good. It’s just that the actors involved could have done so much more with a more ambitious movie and script.

There have been bad franchise revivals before, but at least there's a sense that those revivals have love for the original films they fail to emulate. The Predator comes off like Black secretly loathed Predator and resented its success for years.

There's plenty to enjoy about The Predator, writer-director Shane Black's entry in the long-running franchise. Theres a good deal about it that's puerile and frustratingly dumb, too.