15 Movie Moments That Pissed Off Fans Most In 2018

14. Weaponised. Autism. - The Predator

The Predator Jacob Tremblay
Fox

What the hell was Shane Black thinking when he conceived this reboot-sequel to the Predator franchise? Even in a movie filled with so many creative wrong turns, who could've expected that Black would think this was the right direction to go?

In what's sure to remain an all-timer WTF moment of blockbuster cinema, Black reveals in the movie's third act that the Ultimate Predator wasn't attempting to harvest the DNA of grunt Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook), but actually that of his autistic son Rory (Jacob Tremblay).

This follows a bizarre aside where scientist Casey (Olivia Munn) suggests that some consider autism to be the next step in the human evolutionary chain, therefore implying that the Predator wants to bottle autism to make itself a more efficient hunter.

It was a flabbergastingly dumb reveal in a movie full of them, and so misguided it almost single-handedly started the narrative that Black might've lost his magic touch.

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