Hey, remember those two Alien Vs. Predator movies? Yeah they sucked, didn’t they? Well, Predators is not those movies. The brain-child of Robert Rodriquez (Sin City, the Mariachi Trilogy) the film is intended to not exactly reboot the franchise, but give it a shot in the arm. The Aliens from Alien? Gone. This is much more the spiritual successor to Predator, the film we all know and love.
Like the original, this is not a high-brow affair. Our premise is simple, and the movie doesn’t waste any time, and literally just drops you into their world. The collection of Earthly killers they’ve assembled are confused enough to start trying to kill each other before they even realize they aren’t even on the right fucking planet anymore. The rest of the movie, they carefully tread the line between keeping the Predator’s exact motives (Other than killing you because its fucking awesome.) and means in the dark, and revealing the most you ever really get to see into their world.
While a carefully designed premise and staged plot, its not exactly Citizen fucking Kane. Rather, its a really well funded fan film of sorts. Fox handed the keys to Troublemaker studios and they got their rocks off as best they could with the budget they had. Its not the huge affair you might have been teased into thinking. Rather, its a tighter movie that relies more on tension than BLAM BLAM CGI!! EXPLOSIONS!!!TITS!!! GUNS!!!
Like the original, this is not a high-brow affair. Our premise is simple, and the movie doesn’t waste any time, and literally just drops you into their world. The collection of Earthly killers they’ve assembled are confused enough to start trying to kill each other before they even realize they aren’t even on the right fucking planet anymore. The rest of the movie, they carefully tread the line between keeping the Predator’s exact motives (Other than killing you because its fucking awesome.) and means in the dark, and revealing the most you ever really get to see into their world.
While a carefully designed premise and staged plot, its not exactly Citizen fucking Kane. Rather, its a really well funded fan film of sorts. Fox handed the keys to Troublemaker studios and they got their rocks off as best they could with the budget they had. Its not the huge affair you might have been teased into thinking. Rather, its a tighter movie that relies more on tension than BLAM BLAM CGI!! EXPLOSIONS!!!TITS!!! GUNS!!!
*Ahem*
Though, we still do get a fair bit of fun gore, violence, and the general awesome stuff we want to see in a Predator movie. I’m among the group that didn’t like Predator 2, and to me, this is a superior sequel. Even though its a fairly unsophisticated affair, you do at least walk out the theater, talking about why the Predators did certain things, and pondering the larger workings of the Predator society. We’re given a little bit more to chew on, and we still see the Predator as the primal badass he was all those years ago. Kudos to Rodriquez and Antal.
iRate it: B+
