the first two are great, but they get kinda repetitive after that. i saw the new Predators movie and i was not that impressed, it was entertaining but they radically changed the mythose of the predators, and changed their behavior radically, they also did something that i thought was rather stupid but won't mention here for spoiler reasons.
I don't want to get too off topic, but I actually enjoyed the newest Predator installment. It was by no means AMAZING, but I would say a 8 out of 10 (maybe give or take half a point).
I thought it to be much better than the AVP movies but I already love Trouble Maker studios so I was already inclined to like it anyways, but I also like most of the cast memebers too.
Sadly AVP movies had potential but they turned out to be crap, well the 2nd one really, the 1st was not near as bad.
Paul Anderson, the director of AVP is a decent director.......kind of......well he did a bunch of movies based off of things I love. I loved Soldier w/ Kurt Russell, he also did Mortal Kombat, Event Horizon, Resident Evil, and he returned to direct the 4th Resident Evil. So it's too bad AVP wasn't a little better, I think the cinematography suffered most, 90% of the action scenes I couldn't tell what the hell was happening.
Colin Strause is the guy who directed and killed the AVP franchise. The biggest movie he ever directed was.........wait for it...........AVP: Requim. He is really a Visual Effects guy who has done effects for a bunch of movies, but he isn't a really a director, I don't know what genius at the studio was like, "hey you! visual effects guy, get over here and direct this."
Anyhow I wouldn't mind seeing a more Predator installments, and though Nimród Antal hasn't really directed anything great, I like that he decided to go back to the roots of the first two Predator movies and he even said he wants to get away from the AVP movies because the were getting way over the top and he wants to bring it back to a simpler straightfoward action sci-fi.