Predators Movie Review:Director Nimrod Antal and screenwriters Alex Litvak and Michael Finch have cut out all distractions, all the fruitless complications most sequels experience as they try to overly explain any unanswered questions from the first film. Their story ignites with a bang and shows no immediate signs of pausing for needless introspection. Predators opens with Adrien Brody’s character falling from the sky into an unknown jungle where he meets up with a handful of fellow air-dropped jarheads, each as equally confused as to what’s going on as the next. The audience knows exactly what’s going on, though. They, a collective sampling of Earth’s most lethal badasses, have been parachuted onto an alien game preserve for the hunting pleasures of the Predators.
The first 30 or so minutes of the film are a much-needed refresher course on not only how to do ensemble-based action movies, but how to make a film that cashes in on a previous phenomenon without betraying the people who made it a phenomenon in the first place. We know just enough about the characters to let our own real-world instincts fill in any of the gaps. And since we know the Predators are out in the jungle, patiently stalking Brody and his defacto gang of killers, there is also no need to de-cloak the alien killers prematurely. The result is an exciting, feels-like-the-good-ole-days start to a movie that is constantly on its toes as it pits the group against a host of interesting challenges the Predators’ planet has to offer, both old (elaborate, hand-made traps) and new (they aren’t the only dangerous things the Preds dropped in by parachute).
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