The animated movie released this weekend on Hulu. It has four segments. One segment takes place in Scandinavia in 849, and involves a girl boss viking. The second segment takes place in 17th century Japan, and involves two Japanese brothers. The third segment is a dog fight between a Predator ship and a US Air Wing, and a latino kid from Florida defeats a Predator. The last segment is the three of them are taken to the Predator homeworld with them fighting each other and a super big Predator.
The viking segment is super girl boss cringe. As a normal sized older woman named Ursa just plows through multiple enemies at once. In one scene she cuts a dude in half with one swing of an axe. Her and her squad of 5, including a very small woman defeat a company sized army of vikings. She fights using two broken shields and is just mutilating dudes left and right. When the Predator arrives he kills everyone with the two women injuring the alien. Every white dude dies. At one point she picks up an anchor by herself without making a sound. And defeats the Predator.
The second segment is the Japanese one. This segment had no women in it at all. The two brothers, one is a Samurai, the other is a ninja, have to fight together to beat the Predator.
The third segment is set in 1942 during WW2. A latino kid is drafted and becomes a mechanic/pilot during the war. He ends up fixing a broke plane and flying to warn his Air Wing about a strange bogey. Everyone in the wing is white and from Texas, they all die. The kid survives with the plane falling apart, and defying all physics by holding onto wings and jumping around while the plane is attacked by the Predator. He somehow figures out the Predator relies on heat to see and ends defeating the Predator ship.
The last segment involves taking all three survivors to the Predator homeworld to fight each other for a chance to fight the Predator boss. The fighter pilot somehow figures out the alien tech to free the three of them and fly the alien ship. The viking woman ends up staying behind to help the males escape. The movie ends with a bunch of alien ships rising in the air to hunt down the escapees.
TL:DR - Predator: Killer of Killers is not only woke, it's just a bad movie. The animation is middle of the road, and doesn't really help the movie. It does have a fair amount of cartoon gore, if that's your thing. The Predators from each segment have no consistent look and look completely different. There are some call backs to the movies. The flintlock from the end of the second movie pops up. I say just skip it
Predator as a series suffers from the same problem as slasher movies.
They always have to be nerfed to be "beatable" by some final girl, or unlikely hero dude to twist subversions. Which means these ultra strong badass warriors or killers, honed on a lifetime of combat, need to make glaring and dumb mistakes that allow them to be tricked by someone who only started fighting a few hours ago or is so physically weak they can be overpowered by someone that small.
So no matter how awesome or badass you make them, it all has to fall apart when suddenly they become "human" enough to be killed and beaten instead of an almost supernatural force of destruction beyond comprehension. You know, the thing that makes them scary and cool to begin with.
Its why only the first Predator movie really worked. Because it used men who were the pinnacle of combat and arms with a similar lifetime of training and genetic fit for fighting it with some of the best weapons they could have on them, and it still took all they had to even remotely outplay one of them.
For all its faults, AVP: Requiem honestly understood this one aspect and turned the Predator into a well thought out warrior, who is clearly planning ahead and competent at all things, who is simply overwhelmed by the much more powerful monster before him. And he still manages to take it down.
Nice call out to AvP; Requiem. Actual fans recognise Wolf as the best depiction of a Predator in the entire series. He was such a no-nonsense badass that went in, got the job done and looked like a consummate pro the entire time. It's such a shame the rest of the movie was trash, but Wolf was a nice highlight and actually was the only other cinematic Predator to match the depiction and combat prowess we saw from the original film.
One of my biggest peeves is that more movies than not by this point use the excuse of "oh its a young/fringe/cult/etc Predator! that's why it acts weird and nothing like the established canon!!"
When the only two Predators everyone agrees on are the two that are the exact thing we expect and want from them.