Every Predator movie is worth watching

polygon.com:

The movie monsters known as Predators have been pitted against the famous xenomorphs from the Alien franchise in a series of comic books, video games, and films — but by most common cinematic metrics, there isn’t much of a contest. Though it hasn’t always been a box-office gold mine, every director of an Alienmovie (apart from the Alien vs. Predator side series) has been subsequently nominated for at least one Academy Award. This contributes to the sense that, however uneven it can be, the Alien franchise is a premier destination for sci-fi-horror authorship. After all, any filmmaker taking on an Alienmovie is placing themselves alongside Ridley Scott, James Cameron, David Fincher, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

ThePredatorseries carries no such prestige. It seems to be considered something of an also-ran — one of those unkillable franchises still chasing the glory of the classic original. The newest movie, Prey, is now on Hulu; like several other latter-day Predator movies, its reviews suggest that maybe this time they’ve actually done it. Maybe this time, they’ve made a worthwhile sequel to Predator.

But what if I told you that, as with the Alienseries, every Predator movie was worth watching? And, further, that these movies are worth watching for much the same reasons as their distant Alien cousins: because each one shows off the style, skill sets, and preoccupations of its director. Although you could cynically see most of these movies as failed attempts to reignite a stalled franchise, the lack of normal sequels in the Predator cycle only makes the movies more fun; each one starts over and gives a different filmmaker a chance to play around with the concept of an 8-foot alien race whose entire life cycle is seemingly