Predators

After Alien vs. Predator and Alien vs. Predator – Requiem, who wasn’t waiting for another sequel that takes us farther away from the awesomeness of Predator? Predators survives on pure ridiculousness of storyline and some odd but memorable casting choices. Should there be more? Why not? It’s Predator!

Before getting into all the twists towards the end of the story, Predators starts with the idea that Earth’s best, I don’t know, “warriors” are kidnapped and dropped onto a planet and hunted. All right fine, but a death row inmate armed with just his shank? A Mexican gang executioner? A Yakuza armed with just his handgun? I’m surprised there wasn’t a MMA fighter armed with just his fists. The Predators couldn’t have even left them a supply of weapons to give them some sort of chance? And, of course, the shank was eventually used on a Predator. Yeah it was. There were a series of left turns throughout the movie. First we get the introduction of the Super-Predators who fight with the regular Predators along with hunting humans. Ooooookay. Then there was the little more than a cameo by Laurence Fishburne. I only mention this because he was all over the trailers but was only in the movie for a psychotic 10 minutes. The final twist was the most obvious but it was still fun to see Topher give it his all.

And now that I mentioned Topher, I can get down to the cast. Topher was phenomenal throughout as the neurotic doctor until the end when he just started chewing scenery. If I added redneck in front of death row inmate armed with a shank, who is the fist actor that would come to mind? For me, Shane Vendrell/Boyd Crowder and lo and behold Predators did cast Walton Goggins for the role. And as usual he was the highlight of the entire movie. He is always entertaining. Just like Goggins, the casting of Mexican gang executioner just so happens to be Danny Trejo. Duh. I’ve put it off long enough. The star of Predators making him the lead badass was Adrien Brody. Wow, I did not see that one coming. And I definitely didn’t see me buying it once he was on screen with his big gun growling orders. I guess that means he is talented ... who would have thunk it?

Predators happened it almost makes up for the last 2 movies. Almost. They got back to the basics of humans getting hunted by Predators. Good times.

7 out of 10