Predators
Attention, following might contain spoilers!!
OK so Im a big Predator and Alien geek, and after the horrendous movies (AvP and AvP:R) I had zero positive expectations on this movie. I was expecting it to have something utterly stupid that would rape the franchise even more. But I surprised to see that it was actually a rather alright Predator flick.
First of all, we are thrown into the movie straight away without stupid bullshit chit chat parts in which nothing happens for 30 mins. No, we are directly thrown into the unknown world with unknown people in an unknown situation. I liked that.
What goes to the plot is that theres a group of inviduals that are captured by the Yautja (Predators) who use all sorts of life forms as hunting game in their own little playground planet. These inviduals are all sorts of types ranging from mercenaries to rapists. I especially liked the big russian dude with a minigun. That dude had a child called Sascha. I was wondering where the hell was Natascha. I was expecting him to yell CRY SOME MOAAAARRR! at one point.
So the group must stick together in order to find out who they are facing, where they are and how the hell they get out. And in the course of the movie they naturally get picked out one by one. But the first to die, isnt a black dude, what a surprise! We also see a cameo from Matrix' Morpheous who had seem to flown over the cuckoos nest. Perhaps he was the best character with the russian dude right after him.
Then, the Predators of the movie. Warning: Next bit might cause severe geekgasming! Main Preds are, what I like to call, renegade predators. To my understanding these three main Predators are criminals in the eyes of the rest of the Predators within their clans, meaning they have performed unhonorable deeds and are thus banished from the clan society. So basically these badasses did something within their clan which caused the rest of the Preds to ditch them on a jungle planet.
I guess the "crime" they performed is what they do to the main cast, that is abducting all sorts of feisty fighters from all over the galaxies for their own little games. Usually its the other way around, the space hunters go to various worlds to hunt several different species until they end up fighting the ultimate prey, the Alien xenomorphs. So maybe hosting their own sports games on a remote planet is what got the rest of the clan get pissed off and kick these Renegades out from the clan society.
So what about the movie itself? It wasnt bad, hell no. It had like gazillion of references to good ol' Predator and Predator 2. Maybe a bit too much. Some of the scenes were literally ripping the first movie off so bad I only chuckled, but in a good way I guess.
I had expectations that this movie would make me facepalm and hate movie industry for raping my favorite Hollywood monster even more. But for my surprise, they didnt.
I give this movie 3/5.