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A couple of gripes after sleeping on it:
As with Iron Man 3 there's too much emphasis, unbelievable emphasis, on the kid. Nobody cares about the kid or what he can do or his comedic timing. Stop putting children in movies they don't belong in and giving them super important parts.
The way this film was cut was horrendous. Important bits of dialogue aren't thought about, their just said quickly and then it's onto the next scene. This is apparent in the ending more so than ever, where deaths happen so instantaneously that the audience doesn't get to appreciate or feel remorse for any of the team or the red shirts. There was one death, to an interesting character, that happens so quick, and so close up, that you can safely assume what happens, but the kill happened so close up and really made no sense that it was pointless, and that particular character deserved so much better.
The end is a joke, badly acted, bad CGI, bad dialogue, just bad. There's not going to be a sequel to this particular movie, trust me on that, so there was no point in shooting that sequence. Take the end sequence out, and extend the final fight and give the characters more backstory, or deaths that aren't so abrupt.
The cool Predator scenes are overshadowed by the mindless, or bad Predator scenes. The Predator hounds are useless in this movie and make no sense throughout the entirety of it. The cool dialogue that makes you laugh, or think that's a nice callback, is overshadowed by the bad dialogue that makes no sense and is a reach for laughs. That's pretty much the overall point of this movie; the cool is overshadowed by the bad, and that's why I liken it to AVP.
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