Overview
- With the review embargo lifted, Rotten Tomatoes shows an 87% critics’ score based on 63 reviews, signaling broadly positive early reception.
- Reviewers praise the visuals, creature design, large-scale worldbuilding and the leads’ performances, especially Elle Fanning and newcomer Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi.
- The film shifts the franchise by centering a young Predator, Dek, and employs a PG-13 strategy that favors alien and android violence, which some critics say blunts the series’ edge.
- The story pairs Dek with Thia, a Weyland‑Yutani synthetic, marking explicit ties to Alien lore while keeping spoilers and major twists under wraps.
- 20th Century Studios is ramping up promotion with new clips and a ‘Kill or Be Killed’ featurette, with theatrical rollout set for Nov. 7 in IMAX and other premium formats.