I really liked the characters in Predators, particularly Brody and Braga. Topher was awful though and his big reveal at the end was predictable and beyond stupid. I also think the movie needed more preds. There were only like, 3 of them, I think? The trailers were misleading and made it look like the humans were facing an army.
I disagree with you on there not being enough Predators in the movie.
While I will agree that the trailers were misleading in making it look like they were facing an entire army of Predators, even three Predators was far too many.
In the first movie only ONE Predator managed to wipe out Arnies entire team of highly trained and heavily armed commandos. Not just a group of individuals, but a TEAM. A team that had worked together for years. Who knew and trusted one another. Who would fight to protect his fellow team mates, or avenge them. The Predator also killed an entire team of elite commandos off screen earlier in the film (the skinned bodies found hanging in the trees). Maybe they werent quite as good as Dutchs team, but they were still highly skilled and heavily armed.
In the second movie it took ONE Predator to take out an entire team of highly trained and heavily armed cops, plus two entire gangs of criminals, and a team of highly trained and heavily armed government agents who were actually prepared to face a Predator.
But then in Predators it takes not one, not two, but THREE Predators to take on a rag-tag group of killers. Granted, each of them were probably the best in their region. Russian Spetznaz, Israeli sniper, Yakuza assassin (likely an expert in ninjutsu), American Special Forces (Navy SEAL, Green Beret, Marine Recon, whatever). Some of the others were just guys with guns. The guy from the African death squad and the Mexican cartel enforcer specifically. Then the convict and the serial killer were essentially unarmed (well the convict had a shank). These people didnt know each other. They didnt trust each other. Many of them didnt even like each other. They pretty much only stayed together because the script said so. Even if you can believe that they would stay together for mutual protection, they still werent a team. Given time the mercenary, The Russian and the sniper could have developed that kind of group dynamic. Maybe even the assassin as well. But the rest of them werent team players.
And yet, these three Predators were incapable of hunting down and killing this group of individuals (again, not a TEAM, but a group of INDIVIDUALS). These must have been the three most incompetent hunters on the entire Predator home planet.
Oh! And they werent even the regular Predators that we were introduced to in the earlier movies either! They were SUPER Predators! THREE Super Predators who were incapable of hunting down and killing a group of individuals who were lost, didnt know each other, didnt trust each other, didnt like each other, and in some cases wanted to kill each other.
Seriously, these Predators were the biggest bunch of p*$$ies I had ever seen in a Predator movie.
