Dek vows to prove himself in the most ostentatious way: to hunt and kill the Kalisk, the apex predator of the death world Genna where everything hunts everything else. The Kalisk has never been taken as a trophy.
The Weyland-Yutani corporation has an expedition on Genna entirely composed of Synths: humans would simply not survive. Nonetheless things have not been going smoothly to say the least.
Dek encounters the heavily damaged, abandoned Synth Thia (Elle Fanning) who claims to have encountered the Kalisk. Much as Yautja hunt alone Dek decides Thia can be used, like a tool, in his hunt.
Shenanigans ensue
Dan Trachtenberg continues to not fuck up the Predator franchise.
Much like Prey he's taken an interesting spin on it and delivered solid work that would be very easy to be sniffy about, and a few people have been, that's just a great piece of mainstream action adventure nonsense.
Which is what the Predator franchise is.
The original had actual subtext going on, this doesn't really but I wasn't expecting it to. There's some "the team that slays together, stays together" going on by the end but it's 2026 you weren't going to get a "lone hero gets the girl and saves the entire planet" ending.
Dek is portrayed as a whiny teenage boy, Thia is not-walking peppy snark made not-flesh and there's a cute but deadly monkey-like sidekick. It could have sucked but it just doesn't because it's not trying to be uber serious, we're here for a fun time.
Oh and the last line made me LoL, 7/10.