{"id":246,"date":"2018-09-18T15:34:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T15:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2019-01-08T23:22:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:22:04","slug":"film-review-the-predator-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: The Predator (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: -20px;\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/M\/MV5BMjM5MDk2NDIxMF5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNjU5NDk3NTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,675,1000_AL_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"282\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>The first Predator movie was awesome nonsense. Much like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0088944\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">Commando<\/a>, Arnie was a tour-de-force of muscle and great one-liners. The movie never took itself too seriously, but it delivered a great cinema experience.<\/p>\n<p>The sequels were successively poor, besmirching the brand and squandering what could have been a very strong series.<\/p>\n<p>So, this time around would things be different, would the team pull a phoenix from the ashes of films gone past?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Confused, muddled, poorly cast and poorly written. The one saving grace was the Predators themselves: they showed more of their personalities, more of their backstory in this movie, and that was great. The rest though, was cheaply done.<\/p>\n<p>I give this movie 4.0\/10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GET TO THE CHOPPA!!!!!!! The first Predator movie was awesome nonsense. Much like Commando, Arnie was a tour-de-force of muscle and great one-liners. The movie never took itself too seriously, but it delivered a great cinema experience. The sequels were successively poor, besmirching the brand and squandering what could have been a very strong series. So, this time around would&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/267"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}