Danny Trejo plays a tattooed Mexican badass (no stretch). Alice Braga plays a politically driven sniper with scruples. His presence alone increases the credibility of the movie, as he’s a talented actor who, despite being cast against type here, confirms he can fill almost any role.įollowing Brody’s anti-hero are a whole slew of lesser anti-heroes, carefully selected by the alien hunters from around Earth to provide a diverse cultural variety.
Brody beefed up to look the part and growls his lines so low that even Dirty Harry and Snake Plissken would be jealous. Though he’s best known for his Oscar-winning turn in Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, he’s been taking more genre roles in recent years, namely Splice and Peter Jackson’s King Kong.
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One could easily argue that the movie isn’t original, though sometimes a good copy is better than something lousy but new.Īdrien Brody plays the makeshift leader of the humans, a take-charge mercenary with a taste for hunting dangerous human prey. With these thoughts in mind, the filmmakers behind Predators have resolved to show their appreciation for the original by reminding us of how well Predator worked, and still works, by not straying too far from its structure. And yet, the original remains a 1980’s action classic. Following the Schwarzenegger hit, Danny Glover starred in Predator 2 and delivered a major disappointment, followed by two abysmally bad Alien vs. Twentieth Century Fox’s Predator franchise never quite took off the way the Alien franchise did. The outcome innovates just enough to make the material feel like something new, even if the basic outline of the Arnold Schwarzenegger version is followed perhaps too closely.
Directed by Armored and Vacancy helmer Nimrod Antal, this sequel derives its approach from James Cameron’s Aliens and increases the scope of the original Predator. But the humans quickly learn they all have something in common they’re all killers themselves, so they resolve to hunt the hunters. The story involves seemingly random humans being dropped onto a preserve for a race of alien hunters to pursue for sport. As guilty a pleasure as they come, Predators proves an entertaining sci-fi actioner that’s capably directed and well acted by an impressive ensemble.
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