The 2010
movie Predators is very different from the first two films in the
franchise, and I hope the next Predator movie (coming out in 2018) will return
to the old ways.
It’s not that
this movie didn’t stand out in its own way. It had its own twists, ensuring
that just when you thought you knew how things would turn out, another twist
caught you off guard.
The major
difference between this and the first two movies is that there was more than
one Predator calling the shots. In fact, there were three different creatures
in this film. This made it harder for the humans, who started as a group of
eight and were picked off one by one.
The effects were
a step up, as you’d expect for a movie made in 2010, but the story felt a bit
lazy to me. The movie was set on a planet far, far away, which, in my opinion,
was an easy way out for the writers.
By placing the
story on a new planet, the movie eliminated external factors that could
complicate things—like the entire Earth and the rules that govern it within the
solar system. Instead, we got a new planet where the writers could bend the
rules and create settings to suit the story they wanted to tell.
The movie starts
with the characters waking up while freefalling from the sky. One by one, they
meet and form a group of eight on a planet they know nothing about. They
realize they’re being watched and hunted, but the why and who remain
a mystery.
Soon, they’re
tested by the hunters as creatures—best described as alien dogs—start chasing
them. One of the group is caught and used as bait in a trap for the others.
They evade the
trap, and this incident helps them discover why they’re on the planet. Their
individual skills make them hard to kill and difficult to catch in the traps
set by their hunters. Eventually, they realize they’re in a game reserve—and
they’re the game.
I wouldn’t rate
this as highly as the first two, but it was a fun ride to watch all the
Predator stand-alone movies back-to-back.
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