The Predator (2018) KILL COUNT

[Music] welcome to the killcount where we tally up the victims in all our favorite horror movies I'm James Agee nice and today we're looking at the predator released in 2018 as the fourth standalone predator film it was co-written and directed by Shane Black who played the vulgar jokester Hawkins in the original film in 1987 back before this movie came out I said that black would be sure to treat the series right with it well it came out and turns out that was dead wrong why was the predator such a disaster well aside from a real-life controversy wherein Shane black hired a registered sex offender without telling anyone the movie itself has a boatload of issues most obvious is the fact that it's basically an all-out comedy with every single character cracking quips like they're in a joss whedon jam but it's also got way too quick a pace and a real tone-deaf depiction of autism where it's basically played like a fucking superpower Plus this thing was reshot and re-edited so many times that the story left remaining is riddled with plot holes and random nonsense in fact the only thing this movie seems to get right as a predator flick is having a high body count here I'll show you [Music] the movie begins with a Star Wars prequel look and space battle that ends when the ship being pursued escapes through a warp game it comes out right near Earth where it better not leave Michigan hanging again just high five before sting come on the fugitive predator inside this doomed ship knows when to fold up so he hops into an escape pod and jettisons away leaving his damaged craft still hurtling towards Earth meanwhile in the Mexican jungle sniper Quinn McKenna kicks off our kill count by assassinating a cartel member in the middle of a hostage situation huh dude gotta look like drug lord ron jeremy lair immediately afterwards apprentice ship crashes into a radio tower and sends mckenna arnold thing down a hill the sky sent destruction falling all around him he examines the crashed ship and finds some fluorescent Freddy blood in empty pretty mass in a future pretty victim his partner Dupree but hold on these two are talking about a third partner named Haynes not sure where Oh he's hanging from a tree stripped of his skin damn fugitive predator did a piss-poor job skinned in this deal looking like the Cryptkeeper or some shit the fugitive predator appears disappears and kills do free you with a blast from his plasma caster I guess predators don't give a damn they'll kill you me and Dupree since McKenna accidentally equipped himself with Fred's wrist gauntlet he's able to stop pred and defile his buddy's body all at once but since fugitive Freddy's not ready for a nap just yet McKenna knows he's got to get out of there and he escapes the area before a helicopter full of g-men Lamb the g-men are led by Trager who's played by the immensely talented sterling K brown in a tragic case of miss casting the launch the fast fuckin you up to their idea of tourism McKenna unlocks the secret to yout john visibility which is this ball i guess then swallows that ball for safekeeping and has the rest of the pred gear mailed to appeal box it winds up at his house instead right into the hands of his son Rory he played by professional damaged kid character actor Jacob Tremblay Rory is somewhere on the autism spectrum and thus he gets bullied at school by Philistines who can't respect a good game of chess don't worry though since Rory is movie autistic he's rocking them Rain Man skills his condition apparently also allows him to figure out alien technology because after he opens the box to find a pretty helmet and the wrist gauntlet he just cruises through the pret oh s out of tutorial like he's a Michael Fassbender Android should have used the proxy though kid because all that beep-boop in attracts the attention of the alien ship that was pursuing the fugitive predator in the beginning and now the other pretty pilot is scanning for targets Quinn McKenna winds up captured by g-men at the VA when he wasn't he in Mexico when the fuck did this happen I guess there was a scene showing his arrest but they deleted it why why would you delete that the government boys get McKenna to sound crazy by tricking him into talking about aliens and that gives them an excuse to stick him on a bus with the so called loonies hope you're ready for some overacted character work cuz this boss is full of it the two chief offenders are Thomas James last seen on the kill count in the mist playing a dude named Baxley who's got a real bad case of movie Tourette's and sadly as much as I love him keegan-michael key who just hams it up way too much as the crass jokester coil how do you circumcised a homeless man here it goes kick your mom in the chin I feel like Shane Black just rewrote his own character from the first movie and had keep playing but coil ends up being just too damn much like dude just shut the fuck up you should less over acted as Lynch played by game of thrones' Alfie Allen I guess he does card tricks or something and metals a god-fearing vampiric looking dude laugh all you want when you're standing at attention before your maker I always stand at attention before I make her ah the only one I actually like a little is the leader of the loonies Nebraska Williams played by trivanti Rhodes who was just seen on the kill count in Byrd box and hey while we're at it let's meet another character fuckin dr. Casey Brackett and evolutionary biologist played by attacker of the show Olivia Munn gets picked up by g-man who asked her for help with her alien problem they take her to a place called Project stargazer and okay I do like the Haunted Mansion joke they do on the elevator is it just your imagination or is this haunted room actually stretching she meets amiable Sean Keyes and I can appreciate the predator continuity here not only does this lab have the actual props and masks from the previous movies in glass cases but Sean Keyes is the son of Predator twos Peter Keyes who was of course played by Gary Busey the real-life father of Sean's after hear Jake Busey that's a lot of fun Brackett discovers project stargazer has collected a predator Debraj dr. Brackett would you like to meet a predator nah man she was the one who got that dude seems cut bracket meets Trager and gets a close-up look at the alien although she Starks about it being miss named you know the data suggests that it attracts its prey exploit sweetness seems to well enjoy it it's not a predator that's a sports hunter well we took a vote predators cooler right still she's so impressed by the extraterrestrial that she flips the franchise's script beautiful oh man do we have another interspecies shipping on our hands apparently brackets boyfriend here has human DNA in it and project stargazer wants to know how you want to know someone fucked an alien okay yep we are already sliding way too hard into humor here after the military detects that impending predator ship alarms go off into science bunker and during the noise and confusion the fugitive predator wakes up not in the best of moods and breaks free to bolster our kill cap his first batch of victims includes six people a woman he uses as a body shield against the bullets coming his way a dude who falls down randomly to some gunfire in the back there a guy who gets backhanded across the room into science stuff a dude who gets a knife tossed into his forehead a guy that pred kills kind of lazily as he moves on and finally a dude he tosses into a window with that much blood I think that guy's dead the predator heads out into the hallway and kills another guy by breaking his back against the wall then uses that dudes gun to mow down three more victims two in the hallway and one at the top of the stairs then he grabs one of the pretty math stay have on display and looks through it which somehow lets him see through the eyes of the mask rory has and then tracked down his personal info so he can docs him what's even going on here since when is this a thing as the loonie bust happens to pull up to the science lab weird security cam style shots show us more kills there are three dead bodies in this hallway right here and two in the stairwell Oh make that three three in the stairwell four six total then as the bus occupants wonder what's going on they see another kill this dude thrown from the rooftop to his death on the ground splat I do like the bouncing helmet after he lands Makenna points out the predator running around on the roof and tells the looneys it's the same alien he saw in Mexico that he wants to kill it for taking out his partners they staged a distraction involving more shithouse jokes from Coyle a Baxley if your mom's vagina were a video game would be rated E for Everyone and in the resulting chaos they're able to take control of the vehicle and ditched their camel clad babysitter's time for a field trip mutha fuckas by this time bracket has made it outside and ends up in a two tiered race with a predator which the loonies see from their school bus Hey a pred dude all right she ends up on top of their boss and they chased after the predator like this is mad freakin max but pride just pops a tire and bracket jungled two jungles her foot so the loonies end up losing their prey they see some g-men starting to arrive but a convenient fleet of motorcycles allows another variation on an old classic get to the top and so one American badass clothesline later the loonies of Brackett are able to Easy Rider on out of there as for the predator he hitches a ride on a truck and gets four kills in the process using his shuriken and wrist blades to chop down all the dudes in the back before he engages in some very out of character humor everything yo Shane blacks a lot of your stuff is funny dude but you can't have every single character right down to the goddamn alien cracking jokes a little goes a long way you know the loonies hide out in a motel called the humdinger good place to get a beach and they try to make Brackett comfortable as she finally sweeps off to tranq juice yarr it doesn't work because obviously but after failing to make a run for it but Canada tells her that Trager and his g-men will probably have her killed so she might as well join forces with them to take down the predator I guess it doesn't make a lot of sense to me and it also doesn't help that these freakin characters just won't stop making jokes it's called the predator it hunts people for sport sorry Nick ooh that's not a it's not a predator it's like thank you Makenna realizes that the predator is probably looking for the gear he stole which is currently with a son Rory ends up using the mask to get a little exposition in the form of a holographic movie uh-oh looks like some other predators have been making an ultimate predator using mad science that experimental parol predator has landed on earth by now and he sends out some pretty dogs to track down his fugitive brother McKenna gets home and finds up the box pretty gear is empty so he tells his wife Emily played by Yvonne Strahovski that they need to go find Rory does that kid be walking around trick-or-treating with a pretty mask taped to his head before they head out though might as well have another scene of the loonies bein cartoon characters while they make jokes about Emily's artwork in my unit of soldiers oh there's his unit whoa Serina Joy painted that while trick-or-treating Rory gets picked on by those bullies from school as well as what a random adult stranger who throws a beer at him that guy definitely fucked up because the pred helmet shoots him and blows up his house in an act of automatic retaliation the loonies now in separate vehicles here police reports about the explosion since Nebraska went and randomly stole a cop car that's at least three stars right they figure out that Rory must be at the high-school baseball field how did they whatever fucking right before a couple of prairie dogs show up to have themselves a taste a boy everyone rolls up in their vehicles shoots their guns aplenty and eventually the dogs are put down through awful looking CGI explosions and direct shots to the head the latter only lobotomizing one of the dogs so it can be used for hilarious zany adventures later on lucky us the fugitive predator appears and after he drops nettles to the ground everybody runs into the nearby school Freddy follows blowin shit up and looking cool like predators always do he catches up to them but before he can finish strangling McKenna he's interrupted and ripped out of the window by something who is the ultimate predator who's yet another yob variation given to us as though the og predator wasn't cool enough he definitely is and in fact let's take a moment to appreciate the actor and makeup team behind the Predators predator the creature effects were done by Tom Woodruff Jr who we've seen a lot on this channel since he worked on alien 3 Alien Resurrection and both AVP movies in the AVP series he also played various Xenomorphs and the pret a lien but for this movie he stayed out of the suit and instead the dreadlocked space hunter was played by Brian Alexander prints a 6 foot 10 parkour athlete who had to spend all day on set wearing this ridiculously detailed suit that's no small task especially considering that with the mechanical mandibles on this thing he couldn't even hear other people without a radio in his ear once they turn on the motor all you guys it's like it's all back here all the servos and motors are back here Prince gave the role his all even suffering bruises on his nose from wearing the mask and regardless of any other flaws this movie may have we've got to appreciate the people behind the predator and cell because at least he still looks and acts cool the two predators get into a pretty one-sided Brad Beye and before long the monstrous ultimate predator puts down the fugitive with ease as the loonies hop into their trailer to escape ultimate predator kills his ultimate prey with a punch to the face followed by a classic D spining and yes predators go on to kill cow always have always will they're just too cool not too hobo they do seem a little less cool when we get subtitled dialogue from them no no it just seems wrong dude the loonies take refuge at a barn where the movie takes a stab at character development look coiling backs they are besties and Mackenna wants to be a good dad that's nice well sciencing with pretty spinal fluid Bracken discovers that the Yowie jaw are trying to improve themselves through genetic tinkering retconning a reason behind all that spine ripping they're always up to I think they're attempting hybridization thus the gargantuan ultimate predator that's cool at all I guess but then the movie takes it in this direction you know a lot of experts say that being on the spectrum isn't really a disorder that's actually the next step in the evolutionary chain hoo-boy quick let's change the subject to the lobotomize space dog hall look he's a good boy now out of frickin nowhere a government helicopter shows up and after it lands Trager and his g-men get out looking all sorts of pissed off trackers looking for Preti tech and he tells Brackett that the Preds have been coming here more frequently because of climate change they're trying to snap up all of our best DNA before work on pretty ridiculous but even more ridiculous is why the fugitive predator was here in the first place and that dead predator was bringing us a way to stop him wait so the fugitive predator was like a conservationist 'pretty Don but hold up we watched him kill like a whole buttload of humans well I guess he could always be like a TR kind of conservationist while G goons beat up McKenna looking for info about the 'pretty tech other G goons go through his house despite Emily's protestations hey as long as they don't steal that Penny Arcade poster back there right the Stooges get theirs when the ultimate predator we crashes through the floor and kills them both with his wrist plays 1 through the floor which looks pretty bad and the other in a much more savage way shanking him a bunch of times in the gun wait a minute this computer doesn't even have steam installed what I even come here for now Rory can all of a sudden draw a map to the predator spaceship so trigger kidnaps him in a helicopter and tells his men to kill bracket and Makenna Makenna is able to quit his way to freedom and he kills us two captors with simple gunshots easy peasy bracket on the other hand is saved by a deus ex space dog who comes out of nowhere and coughs up a grenade bracket sticks that thing in the G man's vest and barely escapes before it goes off killing the dude and thankfully ending this weird little barn sequence but shit can always get stupider and case-in-point the other looney show up in a stolen freaking helicopter yep they stole a helicopter that's gotta be five stars for sure they use the chopper to follow the space dog to uh I don't know man this movie's a fucking mess the g-men go to their super-secret area where they've been keeping fugitive predator spaceship and Trager uses Rory to crack open the alien security system which he's able to do with ease because again he has Hollywood autism but before Traeger can start downloading all these predator files up don't Google predator files please McKenna shows up having been cloaked with that ball I guess and kills trigers lieutenants appear by shooting him in the eye with the tranquilizer gun oh man all these kills got that shiny CG look to them we get lots more CG blood when the loonies show up outside and kill three government soldiers and their initial attack all done with knives used for throwing stabbing and the horror movie mainstay throat slitting as Nebraska lights a cigarette you know like any smart soldier trying to hide McKenna steps out of the ship with Trager as his hostage before they can enact any plan though Lynch who's far off with a sniper rifle gets killed by the predator in a lackluster way reek reek it rhymes with weak as a weak ass kill Lynch shot off a flare before he died so a firefighter ops during which I see seven random government dudes getting shot which I'll go ahead and count as kills even though it looks like this third dude is reacting the shots that didn't actually hit him that's okay the rest of these extras did a real super job after a while the alt predator shows up and after crushing a vehicle he also adds to the kill count when he tosses another random government dude into an electric fence yeah that dude dead he ain't playin like dr. grambs ultimate predator keeps on adding to the kills when he harpoons one dude through the chest and uses the tow cable to decapitate three soldiers who were driving in a Jeep not bad ultimate predator you're winning me over with shit like that the u P ignores everyone else and just strolls on into the spaceship leaving the last kill of the sequence to come courtesy of Nebraska who shoots one of traitors dudes down to even the numbers between them and the g-men then all of a sudden the ultimate predator starts talking to the humans using triggers predator translator system yes it's as dumb as you think it'd be especially when he starts saying that he wants to take McKenna home with him since he seems like a true warrior he will be your leader mark rocks the pred tells the humans he's going to hunt them and gives them a head start sending the loonies and the g-men running into the woods in an uneasy alliance as ultimate predator leads the fugitive ship blowing it up behind him one of triggers dudes decides to randomly throw the predator shuriken it comes back and cuts his hand off and when the guy loudly yells about it Trager mercilessly murders him in an effort to keep him quiet another of triggers dudes is pulled up into a tree and gets bitten by the ultimate predator Oh decapitated hand yep there's our ultimate bready boy I guess isn't he handsome trigger more action and gun firing commences with Trager now using the shoulder mounted plasma caster and ultimate predator keeps the kills coming by blowing one dude all the pieces with his wrist blade projectile oh no we don't need to see that in slow motion it's not good enough for all that they eventually managed to cover the predator with some flammable dust and light him up with a gun shot Baxley senselessly leaps onto this mountain of flaming alien causing Trager to laugh at him before this happens he'll what the fuck to Trager just died sorry I blinked and missed it wasn't he supposed to be an important character of something god damn movie get your shit together the predator throws Baxley against a tree causing a branch to impale him through the back then shoots another risk played into coil side before falling backwards off a cliff by E with the two besties loonies both mortally wounded they make a silent pact and kill each other at the same time with near simultaneous gunshots this moment would have been a whole lot sweeter to me if either of those characters felt like actual human beings the survivors are once again attacked by the ultimate predator who growls the word McKenna to them but turns out it's not Papa McKenna he's looking for he wants Rory cuz you know evolution or whatever don't worry Fred's got a kid sized pod waiting for Rory on his secret hidden spaceship McKenna in the last loonies Nebraska and nettles get on top of the ship's roof while Brackett lands an explosive hit that gives it a rocky takeoff it's still able to get pretty high up though and when the predator turns on the ship's shield system we get a very cool action moment where McKenna and Nebraska get trapped down opposite sides of the force field while nettles is cut down at the knee from the forest presumably dying after his body flies off the ship with no feet to land on it Nebraska finding himself on the wrong side of the shield decides to do McKenna a solid by sacrificing himself and jumping into the spaceships engine shooting at it while he does it's a cool way to go out I guess especially since it works and the ship starts to falter it crashes to the forest floor as does McKenna and ultimate predator steps out to whoop some ass of the dude who fucked up his ride before he can kill McKenna though Brackett jumps on the Predators back in and shoots him in the head a few times then all sorts of shit happens to this poor alien he gets knocked down rolled around that shitty kid activates his own ship's shield and cuts off his hand and then finally his own dog shows up out of nowhere again to once again give Brackett a weapon which McKenna ends up using to blow the ultimate predator into a Johnny got his gun conditioned McKenna finishes the big bad pretty man off with a couple of gun shots to the head and that's a wrap on this latest Scout job aeration in a very tacked on epilogue we see that McKenna has become part of the Brax oh and he has this kid working for the gun Herman now to a scientist tells McKenna that they found a gift left over from the fugitive predator and turns out that gift has a name I guess you call it the predator killer the predator killer is this thing which attaches to a guy and Preds him up in a complete ripoff of Iron Man did Shane black steal a graphics package from the Iron Man 3 editing Bay's or something the movie ends with some action hero lines that are just as awful as the rest of this shit that's my new suit Bubba I hope they got in the 42 long how many people were killed by the Predators in the predator let's find out and get to the predator or the numbers get to the numbers there were 58 kills in the predator the second most of the series the victims included 55 men only a single woman scientist one regular-sized predator and finally one big-ass ultimate predator great to see those key lime wedges back in the pie chart right with the runtime of 107 minutes that left us with the kill on average every one point eight four minutes I'll give the golden chainsaw for coolest kill two nettles I've always wondered what happens as a ship's forcefield is deployed and now I know and if you in its way you can kiss your limbs goodbye the old machete for lamest kill will go to lynch who was killed without any kind of fun fanfare we'll see if Theon gets a better end later this year and that's it the predator came out in 2018 and was co-written by Shane black and Fred Dekker who also wrote the Monster Squad together probably explains why this movie was such a comedy before I let you go I want to let you know that today's episode was brought to you by case file an awesome true crime podcast here on dead meat we look at fictional horror but case file is your source for deep dives into investigations of solved and cold cases from around the world right now they're doing a five-part series about the blanco murders investigating Australia's worst serial killer check that out and all their other episodes by subscribing and listening to case file for free on Apple podcast Spotify or anywhere you listen to podcast next week is the kill counts 2 year anniversary but until then I'm James a JD's this has been the kill count thanks a lot for watching this week's go cop I want to thank some patrons like Justin Palmer Marshall fine sober and prism I also wanna let you know that I'm gonna be taking part in a horror documentary coming out called in search of darkness there's more information about the documentary in the description of this video so check that out I'm so excited to be a part of it and for next week I have a very fun episode lined up thanks everybody be good people

Channel: Dead Meat

Views: 7,695,188

Rating: 4.9162765 out of 5

Keywords: horror, dead meat, movies, scary, films, kills, kill count, body count, james a. janisse, jaj, pine commander boogie, predator, new, sequel, franchise, series, alien, shane black, reboot, fred dekker, boyd holbrook, travente rhodes, jacob tremblay, keegan-michael key, olivia munn, thomas jane, alfie allen, sterling k. brown, soldiers, loonies, controversy, DMKC

Id: tqjqEauW_TI

Length: 23min 8sec (1388 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 29 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/DaMudkipper]

Kill counts are great for movies that I dont really want to spend the full time watching

[u/FriskeyVsWorld]

Is it wrong that I actually laughed at the Predator giving the thumbs up with the severed arm?

[u/TheJuiceDid911]

Why does it seem so hard for studios not to horribly screw up remakes?

How have they not all gone the fury road route but instead try and reinvent the wheel in stupid and insulting ways?

It made a boatload of money so what does my dumb complaining ass know.

[u/acidfalconarrow]

had to repost seconds later cause i accidentally put 2010, hopefully no one noticed

[u/TheKazarka]

Mote like Preda-third

[u/ShiftyBea]

Ugh, this movie. I like Shane Black's writing but hiring the sex offender just because he was his friend is a bit... off...

[u/Esquilax21]

The alien dog sub plot is so dumb

[u/Khalbrae]

This film can be rented/purchased on Amazon, iTunes, VUDU, DirectTV. And in some regions can be purchased via Google Play and Youtube.

[u/virlex15]

Remove the dogs from this movie and I really enjoyed it! Great kill count and cant wait to see what the fun kill count next week is! Awesome as always