Predators

Ahhh, I love the original Predator film. Predator 2? Hmmm, not so much.

But what about the latest film… Predators?

It’s the story of a group of random hard nuts, who have all at some point been abducted by Predators, knocked unconscious, thoroughly probed, then dropped by parachute onto a planet in an unknown galaxy, far, far away.

In typical Hollywood style, our Predatory friends have stolen just the right ethnic mix of monster movie cannon fodder. So rather predictably, we’ve got ourselves an american white dude, as well as a black guy, a Russian, a Mexican, a Japanese dude and obligatory woman. Those Predators might be mean and fierce, but give them some credit – they do like to make sure they’re hunting a suitably politically correct range of meat.

Anyway the general gist is we’re on a distant game reserve, with those Predator dudes running around everywhere trying to kill anything warm and wiggly.

To be honest, you might as well just watch the trailer and save yourself a couple of hours. It’s not a bad film by any means, in fact it’s quite watchable. Trouble is, it’s just not scary and the trailer had already summed the whole film up nicely. And it’s not as if you couldn’t guess exactly who the last two surviving characters will be is it…

6/10.