Predators

Predators starring Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne and Topher Grace was a movie that honestly I would have been better off not seeing. My mom and I just wanted to watch a movie, and by this point we had already seen Eclipse twice, so I wasn't going to push her on that. We decided on Predators. I liked the original Predator movie and the Alien v. Predator movie which brought together two of sci-fi's greatest creatures for a major battle. The movie started out abruptly with Adrien Brody falling out of a plane into a jungle with a parachute and he happens upon other people in the jungle who were in his same predicament.

The main idea of the movie is that they were the prey and this was a game, a hunt. Very simple, although it took the characters a while to figure that out. There were killer dog-like predator creatures as well as the Predators themselves. Then there were a few weird moments with a random appearance by Laurence Fishburne as a survivor of one of the Predator's hunting seasons, who was kinda crazy but had survived long enough to know a few things about the hunters. There were numerous fight scenes that were classic Predator style with cloaking devices and heat vision camera shots.

The one thing I did take away from the movie was about humanity and how humans for the Predators were the most exciting prey. But also, how for some, losing their humanity made them just like those Predators, cold and heartless and Topher Grace's character brought up some interesting points along that line about how even the monsters at home, the murderers and other killers, would feel normal among the Predators.

Overall, I give this movie a 5.1/10 Predators.

It wasn't terrible but it wasn't great either. It's more of a filler movie or a wait to watch on DVD.