Predators Review
The first Predator movie is one of my favorite movies, and the second is right there with it. The past few movies the Predators have been in have been mediocre at best. The AVP movies should have been much better than what they were. Along comes Robert Rodriguez(Desperado, Sin City) and produces a new Predator movie. Well done Sir! Predators is the best Predator movie since the second one, and shows the AVP people how to make a movie!
Rodriguez does not direct the film, he lets Nimrod Antal(Vacancy, Armored) take the job. He does a good job, but with the cast he had to work with he didn’t have to do much. Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, and Danny Trejo are the big names in the film. Alice Braga, Walton Groggins, Oleg Taktarov, Louis Ozawa Changchien, and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali round out the rest of the cast. The plot of the film is that all these people are dropped onto a Predator hunting planet and have to survive being hunted by the Predators. It sounds simple, but the movie goes back to the style of the first one and really shows how the Predators hunt. I won’t give away anything, as the character development is well done and is interesting to here who all these people are, but I will say they are not good people. The feel of the movie is different than any other, because the Predators are in control pretty much the entire time.
The visuals are well done as well. The shot when they come to a cliff and you see other planets orbiting is very cool looking, and a refeshing confirmation they are not on Earth. The new dog like Predators they introduce look good and don’t feel cheesy like I thought they might. The actual Predator models are cool, especially what seems like the head one of the 3 with the skull mask on. The audio sound is ripped right from the first movie, and is a big highlight to me as a fan.
The only negatives to me were that Laurence Fishburne is only in about 15mins of it, and I really wanted to see the “actual” Predator home planet and see some of what goes on there, but that’s more of a personal thing.
This is a really easy movie to review. If you like Predator movies, then you’ll like this one. Much improved over the AVP movies. They leave room for another movie, and I wouldn’t mind if this team did another one. To answer what some might be wondering; Yes a spine does get ripped off, and Yes it is awesome!
4/5
