Predators

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By Nigel Floyd

Director:  Nimród Antal (2010, 107 mins)
Cast: Adrien Brody, Danny Trejo, Alice Braga, Laurence Fishburne


Predators01This is the sequel that John McTiernan and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 1987 original deserved, as director Nimrod Antal delivers enough hard core sci-fi, explosive action and monster mayhem to justify its  belated arrival.

Forget the official sequel and the lame ‘Alien vs Predator’ spin-offs, this ‘Predator’ sequel deserves one of its own. Armed to the teeth but unknown to one another, a multiracial group of military/criminal killers (plus Topher Grace’s anomalous wimpy doctor) find themselves on a Predator hunting planet where they are the game.

Faced with an evolved  generation of super-Predators, Adrien Brody’s Hemingway-quoting, self-appointed leader (“There is no hunting like the hunting of men . . . “) Predators02insists that their survival depends upon pooling their own killer instincts. Alice Braga’s svelte sniper is a tough yet tender foil for the buff, brainy Brody; with one notable exception, the remaining ‘dirty half-dozen’ are merely disposable.

Channelling Brando’s unhinged Colonel Kurtz, a well-padded Laurence Fishburne pops up halfway through as a surprise sole survivor, a striking cameo that nods to his youthful debut in ‘Apocalypse Now’.

1 Comment
Posted by Mike Yip on 2nd Aug 2011 09:56

table
You guys should use a tripod instead of just leaving the cam on the table at the 2nd video. Video is filled 3/4 with the table.

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