Shot under the creative auspices of Robert Rodriguez, [Predators] stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet…as prey. With the notable exception of a disgraced physician, they are all coldblooded killers–mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members—human “predators” who that are now being systematically hunted and eliminated by a new bread of alien Predators. —official synopsis
Absolutely loved everything involving the alien predators and could have given a shit less about anything involving the humans. This is purely just nice to look at and nothing more.
The uncreative nature of America's film industry is getting more dire by the year, as a flood of remakes and sequels go into production. This was an unnecessary reboot of the Predator storyline, and frankly there isn't much of a story here. What was truly surprising was how gorgeous and lush many scenes were - filled with dense colours and wonderful set design. The design of the den was particularly chilling.
Nimród Antal is a B-film classicist whose sensibilties belong to a time before pervasive special effects and whose skills have little to do
Nimród Antal is a B-film classicist whose sensibilties belong to a time before pervasive special effects and whose skills have little to do
We've already got entries going on the two most interesting films opening today, Jacques Rivette's Around a Small Mountain (here) and
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Predators feels more like the hunted than the hunter. Where the original Predator was the story of a soldier forced to reinvigorate his primal side, to tap into what had… read review
I’m sorry, but I don’t share the same enthusiasm that most people have with the Predator re-boot. I mean it’s better than the one with Danny Glover or any of those Alien vs. Predator movies, but it… read review