Monday 21 February 2011

Predators (Nimród Antal, 2010)

But for a few oblique references to the Arnie original, this is basically a total retread of the hunter-prey jungle rampage (with a few added aliens, since you can only ever go bigger). To fill in for the Guvernator's rippling pecs not only has the unlikely figure of Adrien Brody (as a grunting hardass mercenary!) had to buff up, but Laurence Fishburne suddenly appears too, puffed up out of recognition. The carefully ethnically-mixed cast are whittled down at a rate very much in keeping with the mathematical formula for the genre. And that's about it. The best you could say is that it's efficient.

4/10

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