‘The Predator’ is offensively bad

In 1987’s “Predator,” Shane Black played Hawkins, the first person in the movie to be killed. Now he’s the director of the lateꦰst sequel, called “The Predator,” and his new film suffers the same fate as his old character: It dies —ﷺ quickly.

The movie is a nonstop gore feꦫst. (How many times do we need to see a man sliced in half and his innards cascade to the ground?) But that’s not what leaves you reaching for the Pepto-Bismol. More sickening is the repugnant humor.

Racially offensive quips, flagrant sexism and Tourette syndrome gags all contribute t🍃o this witless, scare-free junk.

In a particularly stupid move, one character describes the predator’s look as “an alien Whoopi Goldberg.” When a research team discovers that a new Predator has some human DNA, a biologist named Casey (Olivia Munn) says, “You want to know if somebody f - - ked an alien?”🌌 This isn’t bottom-of-the-barrel material, it’s bottom of the landfill.

The watered-down Arnold Schwarzenegger (star of the original film) in this sixth franchise entry is Boyd Holbrook as Quinn McKenna — an ex-military firebrand. Low-energy Quinn has a run-in with a🅰 Predator in Mexico and, after being apprehended by American government officials, he’s sent off to a psych ward to keep him quiet.

Aboard a bus en route to the facility, Quinn meets a band of troublesome misfits who dub themselves “the Loonies.” One has Tourettes and rattles off vulgar obscenities. Another, played by Alfie Allen of “Game of Thrones,” blandly performs card tricks. Keegan-Michael Key’s character is the Don Rickles of the troupe, telling “Yo ꦬmamma” jokes to pass the time. Their de facto leader, Nebraska, is played by Trevante Rhodes, who starred in “Moonlight.”

Several ඣof these supposed-to-be lovable characters die during the film, but you won’t be sad. Instead, you’ll be pleased because it means the movie is nearly over𝐆.

Together with Casey, who shows less inte🎶rest in science than a Teletubby, the ragtag group struggles to stop the alien’s us▨ual slay-by-numbers rampage.

Weirdly, the Predator isn’t all that evil next to Sterling K. Brown as the sinister head of the task force studying it. He struts around cursing like a sailor as he tries to kill Quinn and his cronies for some reason. It’s almost🔯 the movie’s biggest waste of talent.

But that honor goes to the casting of young actor Jacob Tremblay as Quinn’s son Rory. As good as t𝓀he 11-year-old is, here he’s made to play a stereotypical autistic boy. The character, as written, isꦍ rife with offensive autism clichés. For instance, he’s a savant who can master any computer, even one from Planet Predator, and excels at chess. But worse is a plot line involving autism and a dubious scientific theory that will leave parents fuming.

🀅As for everybody else, we are all just prey for “The Predator.”