Dare I suggest that studios tend to overthink franchises these days? With all due respect to the "Predator" movies — which I happen to enjoy more often than not, thank you very much — it's not exactly the most difficult concept to grasp. You gather a bunch of overmatched human characters in an interesting setting, throw a hyper-violent Yautja or two into the mix, and sit back and watch the carnage unfold. It's as simple and straightforward a premise as it gets, standing firm against the typical studio thought process of making things unnecessarily convoluted with each and every installment. That's not to say it's always worked out that way in practice, of course. After "Predator 2" took the action from Central American to the concrete jungle of Los Angeles to mixed results, the one-two pun

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