Predator: Killer of Killers is a short and sweet joyride through the franchise’s secret past

With Prey, manager Dan Trachtenberg revitalized the Predator franchise and showed america each however wildly thrilling its cardinal conceit could inactive beryllium with conscionable a small spot of reworking. Prey took the classical Predator story and made it consciousness caller by focusing connected the past and framing its alien characters' excursions to Earth arsenic portion of a overmuch older deadly tradition. Expanding the Predator series with adjacent much Prey-like narratives seemed similar a no-brainer for 20th Century Studios.

Though it's a leaner, meaner feature, Hulu's Predator: Killer of Killers takes everything that worked astir Prey and condenses it into abbreviated and saccharine exploration of different chapters from the franchise's past. The animated anthology's Arcane-inspired visuals are gorgeously gory, and its enactment acceptable pieces are incredibly sharp. Killer of Killers isn't precisely trying to reinvent the wheel, and if you've seen a Predator movie before, small of it volition instrumentality you by surprise. But arsenic a bloody amuse-bouche meant to whet our appetites earlier Predator: Badlands hits theaters aboriginal this year, Killer of Killers absolutely gets the occupation done.

Set astatine 3 antithetic points successful quality history, Killer of Killers tells the acquainted …

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