My Movie Review: Predators

My Movie Review: Predators

3/5

Opening Statement: Let's scratch out Predator 2 from our minds, and make way for this sequel Predators, goes from Predator to Predators as Alien went to Aliens. Predators takes place in a jungle area God knows where, where Adrien Brody and friends wake up while falling from the sky, they are all deadly killers. They begin working together to try and discover where they are and their purpose for being there as they are hunted by brutally-killing aliens known to us as THE PREDATORS.

What's Good: This is probably the best that will be done with a predator movie. The vs. franchise was a failure, and the first one is a bit overrated for my taste. There is only so much you can do with monsters that are heavily armed and cloaked. However, Predators handles its story very well, director Nimrod uses a setting that brings out gritty feelings, and suspense. We meet these characters and gradually learn about them on the way, the execution of how we learn about them and the on-screen action/ horror is handled well. All of this is helped with a small score, that brings out suspense as well. Brody comes all muscled up for this film, and he is a great actor well in anything he does. We also have some other A-listers including Topher Grace and Laurence Fishbourne, it's nice to see this actors show their chops it is interesting that they all did a movie like this, and did it well.

What's Bad: Of course, it is not perfect (not even close.) Predator was a dead series after the first movie, these monsters are tired and that goes for Alien too. No one is lining up to see these creatures anymore. The premise of this movie is a tad bit to shaky, and it kind of drags a bit toward the middle. Of course it is all executed well, but that doesn't hide its apperance of being not-so-fresh. Just like the Vs. films this one is kind of forgettable, I doubt I will remember anything that happened in this movie next month, which is sad because you can tell the cast and crew worked hard to make it something more than just another Predator movie.

Consensus: Nice, gorey, horror movie fun. I would say check this one out, it is nothing too special, but it does the best it can with its premise.