Currently, Predators is rated 6.7/10 on IMDb. I’m stumped as to how this movie even got past 5/10.. Yet, there are even positive reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, surely I can’t be that wrong?
To put it bluntly, this movie was crap. I can hear it now, fanboy cries of “omg, wtf r you on about it was awesum!!1″.. Yeah, perhaps it was if you’re a 14 year old who has never seen the original or one of those real die hard Predator series fan. After I finished painfully watching Predators, I decided I’d put on the original and cult classic: Predator.
So, what did I learn? I learned what 23 years difference makes. Back then, you were given a classic, a franchise maker.. now you’re a given movie that milks and butchers franchises. This movie is B-grade, and if you thought otherwise – you’re wrong. The movie is labelled a sequel, yet it stinks purely of an adjusted remake.
I thought I was totally wrong in my diagnosis of the movie with all the positive reviews I saw on Rotten Tomatoes, until I found quite a few which I could relate to:
“This small-minded reshuffling of the “Predator” franchise that began in 1987 is little more than a modern sci-fi B-movie filled with more plot holes than you can count.”
“A stolid, uninspired imitation of the original… “
“An unnecessary reboot of the 1987 cult movie. Quite literally every image, every idea in Predators, is a straight steal from another film.”
And they are correct. The plot is all over the shop, the actors are so-so, they obviously didn’t have to deliver much – was Adrien Brody bored? The lines were average, heck – they could of almost made the movie without any. Lawrence Fishbourne made a cameo, perhaps to generate some buzz? The only real interesting and most exciting scene was towards the end when Hanzo, (a Yakuza killer) took on a predator in a sword fight. Apart from that, I was bored shitless.
Comparing this to the original which had a decent soundtrack (including a memorable theme tune anyone?), good action scenes, memorable lines such as (but not limited to) Dillon! You son of a bitch! Runnnn, Gooooo, Get to the chopperrrrr! and some plot credibility, Predator should started and finished in 1987.
Filed in Delayed Movie Reviews