Dan Trachtenberg's 'secret' project is this full-blooded animated entry into the Predator universe, taking the anthology-style approach of four episodes, opening by pitting a Predator against a band of vengeful Vikings, before moving to seventeenth-century Japan and then World War II, before cleverly bringing the key fighters from each era together for a full-on finale battle royale. In its favour, the film establishes and melds the Predator and Viking worlds extremely effectively from the outset through its characters and use of familiar iconography, which is then replicated through the other time periods. Impressively occupying a space between video-game and photorealism in an interesting painterly style, the whole story is realised very cinematically and the action sequences are effectively dynamic and handled extremely well. Each episode has enough ideas to make it interesting, with perhaps The Bullet's aerial dogfight against a Predator ship being a real highlight, and whilst the relatively short twenty-minutes segments give little room for full development they are written strongly and the pace is kept brisk, making Killer Of Killers a pleasingly lively lightweight romp.
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