The Predator story
The film follows a ragtag band of fugitive soldiers who must fight off an invading pair of Predators. It is the fourth installment in the Predator franchise.
16 total · 5 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| extraterrestrial being | major | Two Predator aliens came to Earth and caused a lot of trouble. |
| father and son | major | Quinn reunited with his young son Royce while he and his band of fugitive solders were fighting the Predators. |
| government secrecy | major | The Stargazer Project was a secret government project to study the Predator aliens. |
| human childhood | major | The boy genius Rory got to go around fighting Predators with bad ass father Quinn. |
| personal invisibility cloak | major | Quinn was using a Predator issue invisibility cloak that he recovered from the crash site of one of their spaceships. The big Predator also used an invisibility cloak from time to time. |
| coping with post-traumatic stress | minor | It was remarked that Quinn suffered from PTSD owing to his time fighting overseas. |
| coping with the death of someone | minor | Quinn paid tribute to his fallen comrades at the film's conclusion. |
| facing being hunted like an animal | minor | Toward the end of the film, one of the Predators gave Quinn and his team a head start before it tried to hunt them down. |
| global warming | minor | Casey deduced that the Predators were plotting to colonize Earth within a generation or two after which climate change was going to make the planet uninhabitable for humans. |
| human vs. beast | minor | Quinn and her team were attacked by a pack of Predator hunting dogs-like beasts. |