I prepared myself for this to suck, but it surprised me. A crew of mercenaries, murderers, and general badasses (and Topher Grace, but spoiler he’s a murderer too) are dropped on what is presumably either the Predator home planet or just some jungle planet they use to hunt, and then are picked off one by one. You know that only one or two people are going to get out, and it’s easy to predict that it will be Adrien Brody and the chick. I figured this would be the case, with another possibility being that he sacrifices himself at the last minute to helpt he girl escape. She was definitely gonna make it, because this is a movie.
The references to Arnold are what made this really work. Tying in his report of what happened in the 80s lends a huge amount of credibility to this, and gives these characters a reason to not just repeat everything he did. The kills were pretty good for the most part, and while no one did any stellar acting work, they did exactly what was needed for a “Predators Are Gonna Murder Almost Everyone Just Sit Back And Enjoy” movie. Well worth a stop if it’s on TBS.
