Who would have thought predators had dogs?
When I first saw one kick the living crap out of Arnie all those years ago, the last thing I thought was that we had something in common; something to chat about in the pub. That we both had furry friends. Sure, the dogs themselves have a face only a predator could love and not much fur, but you get the point.
Admittedly, it's a strange way to start a review of the latest offering in the Predator franchise, but it was probably the most interesting thing about the film. Not that Predators, starring Oscar winner Adrien Brody and Laurence Fishburne, and produced by Robert Rodriguez, is bad. It's actually a good way to waste 107 minutes of your life.
But then, having endured the last two offerings from the franchise, even Two Predators, One Cup would have been a significant improvement.
And thanks to Rodriguez and director Nimrod Antal, it isn't the only new thing we learn about them either. For example, did you know there are different types of predators, some of which are even bigger, stronger and meaner than the ones we have been treated to in the past? They are just like us really – only really ugly with dreads, like Floella Benjamin, and with a mouth that looks like a Manga vagina.
They have all the stuff we have, like France and paper m?ch?, only different. They even have dogs, which some people find really interesting.
Plus, in this movie, rather than just come down to Earth, or whatever planet they fancy, for their quarry, they bring their prey to them. Or rather a planet which is their very own game reserve.
And top of the hit list is a beefed-up Brody and a bunch of other ?really nasty? people the predators have kidnapped from all over the world purely so they can hunt them.
Brody is joined by Fishburne, looking surprisingly well fed for a man who has survived on the planet for 10 seasons, a token fit woman, a token comic relief, a token fish out of water (Topher Grace), a token Russian and that Mexican guy who is always in Rodriguez’s movies.
And that really is the whole plot. They have to survive against all the odds? blah de blah. You get the idea. Basically, lots of people die, some don’t. The end.
But, like I said at the beginning, Predators is a good movie. It has boiled down exactly what we liked about the first movie and added to it. It even gets straight into the action, as the unfortunate band of CIA killers, mercenaries, criminals and, errr, surgeons wake up mid-air as they plummet towards the planet.
The only problem is that, while it shows the predators in a whole new light, the film feels more like a homage to the original rather than the latest chapter.
The music is the same, the backdrop is the same, the special effects are the same – even some of the characters look the same!
It makes you wonder if this predator really has shot its last bolt. I mean where else can they take it? Cats, maybe? I'd watch it.
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I think I will definitely have to go to see this movie after reading this review
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