Predators follows Royce (Adrien Brody), a mercenary, who wakes up finding himself falling from the sky into a jungle. Once on the ground, he meets other people who have arrived there in the same manner, all of whom have questionable backgrounds, except for a doctor (Topher Grace). As the film progresses, the group discovers that they are on an alien planet that acts as a game reserve to which they are being hunted by a merciless race of aliens known as Predators.
Here it is, yet another addition to the Predator franchise, a series of films that I'm well aware of its existence but had little contact with. Despite that, I decided to give this one a try, after all, a film should stand on its own. If I was afraid of not getting the story, that fear disappeared right away. It only took 5 minutes to see how incredibly flimsy the plot was. Absolutely no effort put into it and the beginning of the film felt extremely rushed with the characters taking the crazy scenario extremely well and not asking any kind of pertinent questions. But who watches a film called Predators because of the story you ask...and you're right. The film's strength is clearly the tense atmosphere and the action sequences.
The problem is, I've seen it all before. The film brings absolutely nothing new to the table. It's a group of humans being hunt by a group of monsters or aliens or whatever you wanna call it and for the first 20 minutes or so you don't get a clear look at the aliens so that there's a real sense of danger. Eventually, we get a glimpse of them, and yes, they're incredibly ugly and disgusting and then it's the same old, same old...countless shots of the predators walking very slowly towards their prey, the humans, with the humans somehow escaping. From time to time one dies but in the end we all know what happens right? There's a few moral questions thrown in the mix to add a little more depth like should one care for others or just ignore his humanity and fight for survival but this is a very brief storyline.
I don't necessarily think that the acting was bad but the characters were paper thin and completely stereotyped. Having said that, Adrien Brody showed once again that he can serve as lead and Alice Braga looked beautiful as always. Overall, it's not an awful film but it is a pretty weak effort and it has been done countless times.
6/10
Here it is, yet another addition to the Predator franchise, a series of films that I'm well aware of its existence but had little contact with. Despite that, I decided to give this one a try, after all, a film should stand on its own. If I was afraid of not getting the story, that fear disappeared right away. It only took 5 minutes to see how incredibly flimsy the plot was. Absolutely no effort put into it and the beginning of the film felt extremely rushed with the characters taking the crazy scenario extremely well and not asking any kind of pertinent questions. But who watches a film called Predators because of the story you ask...and you're right. The film's strength is clearly the tense atmosphere and the action sequences.
The problem is, I've seen it all before. The film brings absolutely nothing new to the table. It's a group of humans being hunt by a group of monsters or aliens or whatever you wanna call it and for the first 20 minutes or so you don't get a clear look at the aliens so that there's a real sense of danger. Eventually, we get a glimpse of them, and yes, they're incredibly ugly and disgusting and then it's the same old, same old...countless shots of the predators walking very slowly towards their prey, the humans, with the humans somehow escaping. From time to time one dies but in the end we all know what happens right? There's a few moral questions thrown in the mix to add a little more depth like should one care for others or just ignore his humanity and fight for survival but this is a very brief storyline.
I don't necessarily think that the acting was bad but the characters were paper thin and completely stereotyped. Having said that, Adrien Brody showed once again that he can serve as lead and Alice Braga looked beautiful as always. Overall, it's not an awful film but it is a pretty weak effort and it has been done countless times.
6/10