nice review Flyboy - definatley gonna catch this one.
Last night I saw Predators. 4.5/5
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I'm a huge Predator fan, I grew up on the errie clicks of distant hunting Predators and this film did not disappoint, ignoring the AVP films Predators puts you right back into the basic plot of Predator. The elite of mankind vs. the Predator(s). This time you see the Hish who are renegade Predators hunting for fun/sport, by nature they do not fight with the same honour code as the Yautja, the Hish are slightly larger and have a different facial structure, although you don't see them up close, when unmasked it looks like they have an extra set of mandibles and clearly have different eyes meaning that the seperation from the main pack of Predators must be generations old (or enough time to genetically change) - as the nut-job US soldier explains, "it's like the difference between dogs and wolves".
The movie would have got 5/5 and be on parr with the original except for a few small things...
The film is just not long enough for me (so here is the first minus .1) I was left wondering a great many things, which is nice that a movie can do that, but also annoying that I left unfulfilled...but in a good way.
My second minus .1 is that script writers still depict the Predators as an advanced alien race, but then when it suits the storyline they are nothing but a 7ft tall dumb lizard. For a race that crafts plasma cannons and cloaking devices, and can see in a range of visual HUDs, you would think by now they might have developed a gadget that can see through cold wet mud. As the nut-job US soldier, again expalins, - "each time one gets beat by us, they learn, come back with different tactics and weapons"... Perhaps cold wet mud is the ultimate barrier for the Predator race?
My third minus .1 is the Predator dogs, the CGi was awful, really bad, - the Wargs in LoTR were better and that film is years old now. And also the Preda-dogs just seem to disappear, if I was loose on an alien planet, even after all the shit had died down, I'd be watching my back thinking "ok we still have to deal with those fucking Preda-dogs, they must be real hungry by now." Plot hole! minus .1
Go see this!