Posted on: Saturday, July 10th, 2010
Posted in: AJ Exclusives
Comments: 97
Predators Movie Review
Short Version: Predators is finally a step in the right direction after decade of this franchise being lost in the dark. Its entertaining, wont do anything to piss off hardcore predator fans, but ultimately by the end I can’t help but wonder what the point of this particular story was? Its time to expand on the source material, this is a good first step but only just.
What you’ll Like:
• One of my beloved franchises has finally been done justice! This feels like a Predator film should.
• Tension is tight as they keep from showing the predator hunters until the second act.
• Interesting dynamic with two predator factions (that is unfortunately not explored)
• Laurence Fishburne (who is sadly underused)
• Best Moment: The Yakuza on Predator Sword Fight.
What you’ll Hate:
• Average characters and dialogue in a movie supposed to be driven by bad ass personality. Nothing Quotable here.
• Devolves into predictable cliches during the last act.
• Cop-out Lazy Ending that sets up a sequel.
• Basically remade the original. Without Arnold it couldn’t have possibly lived up to it.
• This franchise needs to dive into its source material and wow us next time around or it will quickly devolve to AVP levels of disappointment.
Final Verdict:
6/10
Slightly Above Average!
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97 thoughts on “Predators Movie Review”
no one get annoyed by all the line rip offs for example kill me and ile do us both all the newer movies do it i did like it but
sadly its a very good predator movie, but your right in that some things are somewhats messed up, would have liked to see lawrence fishburn not go crazy like that but oh well.
well they could of cast vin diesel I mean hes pretty bad-ass
black guy always got to die
Ey, at least we have the “Your spine!” moment with that retarded prison murderer…
the greatest moments were the fight of the yakuza and the moment with the russian his death was atleast awesome^^
I hated that the main bit from the trailer where adrian got surrounded by predators and has all their lasers on him was cut out of the film i was so fucking looking foward to that
To me, the whole idea of this movie was to introduce the clans that the Predators have. The new ones want to become better than their counter parts and from what I’ve read on some site I forgot, these new Predators are younger and less wise than their smaller counter-part. They are very talented and from what i remember reading the site, the leader had killed quite a few xenomorphs to be able to lead a clan. I forget about the other two but go look for the information if you want to know about them.
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Colonial Marines VIDEO GAME!!!!!! cant wait for the review!!
i hope we’re gonna see more predator or alien movies in the future but not like AVP they’re totally messed up.
So I said “jeez you got a big pussy, jeez you got a big pussy” she said “why did you say it twice” i said “i didnt” best line in the first movie xD
the best line from the first predator was when the guy said im bleeding and Arnold said we dont have time to bleed
Not Arnold dumbass, Jesse Ventura. Watch the movie again after 20 years! And it was Vetura who was bleeding.
are you stupid or something? he said the other guy was bleeding.
Never has a movie violated the primary characters
The predators are space hunters, the hunt has always been dignified in its primary movie series. The problem is that they tried to turn it into a horror movie.
Saying things that make no sense
“they adapt, and they are smart” (not an exact quote from crazed Laurence fishburne) i wonder what the first hint was. THE FACT THAT THEY BUILD SPACESHIPS
plus there was the sacking of the original predator design, a very cool design, but the new predator they streamlined all of the features.
the masks were great, the idea of integrating trophy parts into the armor, not just a string of fox skulls but actually integrating a jawbone.
And as al alien world it wasn’t impressive, and how do you not notice that there is a planet in the sky until after you get out of the forest.
The forest doesnt obscure the whole sky, THERE IS A PLANET UP THERE
and the predators were disrespectful of the trophies they acquired from their hunt, the idea has always been treat your trophy with dignity and respect.
Treat your prey with dignity and respect
But no, and when they track down the humans they kill the man who had eluded them for YEARS killed a few of them.
they VAPORIZED the man killing lion, the ultimate of trophies
The predators behavior in this movie is the problem, they are random berserkers rather than the dignified hunters that i have come to know and love
But here is the thing, they are clearly defined as being of a different sort than the original predator. Being racially different, likely they have different creeds and codes.
So I cannot say it is contradictory to the established lore (unlike AVP)
But i dont want to know about the new predators, i want to know about the ones that i love and know.
And i dont want the original to be pathetic in a fight against the new, Its all just, off putting
do you really think someone is going to read all of that…
well considering that i somehow am stupid enough to double comment
probably not
but I dont really care
I had something to say and i said it. I dont care what other peoples opinions on my opinions are. I dont need to varify my existence through acknowledgment by other people
You however had nothing to say, just an attempt at sounding cool by shooting down someone elses commment
piss off dan
The character Lawrence played survived like 2 seasons.
Thats like…2 days
Never has a movie violated the primary characters
The predators are space hunters, the hunt has always been dignified in its primary movie series. The problem is that they tried to turn it into a horror movie.
Saying things that make no sense
“they adapt, and they are smart” (not an exact quote from crazed Laurence fishburne) i wonder what the first hint was. THE FACT THAT THEY BUILD SPACESHIPS
plus there was the sacking of the original predator design, a very cool design, but the new predator they streamlined all of the features.
the masks were great, the idea of integrating trophy parts into the armor, not just a string of fox skulls but actually integrating a jawbone.
And as al alien world it wasn’t impressive, and how do you not notice that there is a planet in the sky until after you get out of the forest.
The forest doesnt obscure the whole sky, THERE IS A PLANET UP THERE
and the predators were disrespectful of the trophies they acquired from their hunt, the idea has always been treat your trophy with dignity and respect.
Treat your prey with dignity and respect
But no, and when they track down the humans they kill the man who had eluded them for YEARS killed a few of them.
they VAPORIZED the man killing lion, the ultimate of trophies
The predators behavior in this movie is the problem, they are random berserkers rather than the dignified hunters that i have come to know and love
But here is the thing, they are clearly defined as being of a different sort than the original predator. Being racially different, likely they have different creeds and codes.
So I cannot say it is contradictory to the established lore (unlike AVP)
But i dont want to know about the new predators, i want to know about the ones that i love and know.
And i dont want the original to be pathetic in a fight against the new
Its all just, offputting
i like this movie its good to see a predator film that hasnt got any xenomorphs in it i also heard about a aliens prequel movie hopfully they will make a decent film from that to though it will never beat the second alien movie
I would like to put in a quick Recommendation for the movie Faster. The new The Rock movie. Since it is one his better action movie since the Rundown or Walking Tall.
I’m with Joe on this one. The movie wasn’t dissapointing like the AVP movies, but there is room for improvement. I liked the movie, I liked the predator vs predator fight close to the end, and Adrien Brody(in my perspective) didn’t do a completly bad job he did an OK job.
The clifhanger ending of this movie(WTF!) I’m sick of those endings.
Also, for the main character role for the movie could have been for: Vin Diesel, Michel Behn from Aliens maybe, Keanu Reeves(just a sujestion), Sean Connery could have been a nice choice, Samual Jackson, I don’t know his name but he played as the bad guy from the first Mummy movie; he could have been a good choice. So movie producers for the Predator movies think about it.
It was a badass sequel. one of the best summer films
The Predators novels kick ass, But they also lack Arnold and Trophies.
They need to make a sequel, where the MOTHERFUCKING COLONIAL MARINES!!! Are sent on the planet to investigate, and then stuff happens whos with me?
Me and my cousin were taking bets on who would die in what order throughout the entire movie.
No arnold. GET TO THE CHOPPA!
I think Predator 2 is actually on par with the first movie. On first view when I was a kid, I admit I was let down. I saw this in the theater when I was a 11 or so. But as an adult, and watching it about a dozen times at least and getting into the comics and books … Predator 2 is actually pure to the source material.
This movie was good and deserved the ok rating.
I’d have to agree, and actually when I first saw Predator 2 I felt it had even more action, character development, and environments than that first as well as supplying a very unique view into the Predators lifestyle that was seemingly ignored in Predators.
But it’s got pleanty of plotholes, as well as unexplained parts of the story, and Bill Paxton at his most annoying.
Yeah I think I am going to see the movie. But I wont expect too much of it. But I think it would be kick ass cool think to make Commando 2.
Of course with original actors.
I think they should make a movie wich takes a lot of the storyline from Aliens vs Predator the game
It would be awesome to see a lot of colonial marinese fighting predators
and maybe have an alien empress
Vin Disel would be nice to see fighting the Predator! But in my mpovie he will be topless most of the time… or all the time…
But other then what i think of him, i think he would be awesume! Riddick(Pre Chronickles) Vs the Predator! Hunter hunting the hunter! They would size eachoter up and try to play the battlefield… Hmm but maybe taking the Riddick character in there mig seem week in the “Why is he there” part. Well physicly he is very very fitt (yum yum) And he has that voice!
Well that’s what i think!
Sorry for my horrible spelling… i forgot to fix the spelling… thinck i got the point across… Vin Disel Vs Predator.