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PREDATORS
Today was the day I was going to see a masterpiece. Yes the most amazing movie this year; PREDATORS! Boy was I wrong. Predators is the highly anticipated "Addition" to the PREDATOR films of the older generation; Schwarzenegger and Glover. The film is set on a planet, foreign to that of the human race in which eight military experts are dropped and forced to fend for their lives against the elite Alien Race which goes by an unknown name, however, has been seen as Predators. The warriors band together once landing on the planet in a hope to find a way off of it, and discover a way to keep safe until they can escape the Predator's hunting ground.
The film took on one of the WORST story's I've ever witnessed in a film. In fact, i think it threw the original PREDATOR story line back together, threw the elite team on a new planet and replaced the cast members with "wannabe ex-characters". Clearly, this movie just didn't want to impress. Certain scenes were far too much like Earth. Scenes made me feel like I was in a national park rather than that of the Predatory and dangerous world that the team was meant to be on. Questions are not left unanswered however; then again; there aren't really all that many questions to come up with as the movie goes by. In fact, Characters seem to find the need to narrate everything that they - or the Predator(s) are found to be doing.
Director Nimród Antal let every one down with this poor excuse for a movie, as well as poor excuse for directing. If Antal truly put his all into the movie, I would have at least been happy -- however -- with a terribly shot, unoriginal story driven supposed action flick, I cant even pride this director on at least trying. Casting was not done well on this film, and with that kept in mind, Director Antal didn't really try to work the actors into the characters. The writing was plain bad with unoriginal and tacky deliverance; bar lines written for one said character -- this i will abbreviate on momentarily.
Cast members all put in a very, very, very average performance minus one member; Topher Grace. Grace pulled off an excellent and very complex character. He helped a lot of those in the theater get through the film with his comical relief, and brilliant deliverance. He seemed as if he was one of the only members of the main cast to truly get the feel -- or even want to get the feel for his character.
Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Danny Trejo, Louis Ozawa Changchien and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (who I have not heard of - hence the link in case you have not either) put in a very average performance. This was surprising due to the fact that Brody was the main cast member and didn't deliver on the slightest. He was the most out of place on terms of casting, not suiting his character in the slightest. Since the viewing of King Kong I had, he is more suited for a role of which he prized in that then a Hard-Nut-Soldier-On-A-Mission-To-Destroy.
Another member of the cast however who saved the movie was of course Laurence Fishburne. His really embodied his character, and to be honest, I felt that he should have been leading this cast which definitely needed a lot of help.
With the very little action sequences in this movie (or at least a lot less then most would expect) it's hard to really stay involved with the movie. It gets repetitive seeings as though we've seen this in Predator movies before, and nothing has really changed; some of the explosions appear as if they were just taken from the old films. Yes ladies and gents, thats how fake they look.
Will the Predator be back any time soon? I freaking hope not under this cast set and direction.
Today was the day I was going to see a masterpiece. Yes the most amazing movie this year; PREDATORS! Boy was I wrong. Predators is the highly anticipated "Addition" to the PREDATOR films of the older generation; Schwarzenegger and Glover. The film is set on a planet, foreign to that of the human race in which eight military experts are dropped and forced to fend for their lives against the elite Alien Race which goes by an unknown name, however, has been seen as Predators. The warriors band together once landing on the planet in a hope to find a way off of it, and discover a way to keep safe until they can escape the Predator's hunting ground.
The film took on one of the WORST story's I've ever witnessed in a film. In fact, i think it threw the original PREDATOR story line back together, threw the elite team on a new planet and replaced the cast members with "wannabe ex-characters". Clearly, this movie just didn't want to impress. Certain scenes were far too much like Earth. Scenes made me feel like I was in a national park rather than that of the Predatory and dangerous world that the team was meant to be on. Questions are not left unanswered however; then again; there aren't really all that many questions to come up with as the movie goes by. In fact, Characters seem to find the need to narrate everything that they - or the Predator(s) are found to be doing.
Director Nimród Antal let every one down with this poor excuse for a movie, as well as poor excuse for directing. If Antal truly put his all into the movie, I would have at least been happy -- however -- with a terribly shot, unoriginal story driven supposed action flick, I cant even pride this director on at least trying. Casting was not done well on this film, and with that kept in mind, Director Antal didn't really try to work the actors into the characters. The writing was plain bad with unoriginal and tacky deliverance; bar lines written for one said character -- this i will abbreviate on momentarily.
Cast members all put in a very, very, very average performance minus one member; Topher Grace. Grace pulled off an excellent and very complex character. He helped a lot of those in the theater get through the film with his comical relief, and brilliant deliverance. He seemed as if he was one of the only members of the main cast to truly get the feel -- or even want to get the feel for his character.
Adrien Brody, Alice Braga, Oleg Taktarov, Danny Trejo, Louis Ozawa Changchien and Mahershalalhashbaz Ali (who I have not heard of - hence the link in case you have not either) put in a very average performance. This was surprising due to the fact that Brody was the main cast member and didn't deliver on the slightest. He was the most out of place on terms of casting, not suiting his character in the slightest. Since the viewing of King Kong I had, he is more suited for a role of which he prized in that then a Hard-Nut-Soldier-On-A-Mission-To-Destroy.
Another member of the cast however who saved the movie was of course Laurence Fishburne. His really embodied his character, and to be honest, I felt that he should have been leading this cast which definitely needed a lot of help.
With the very little action sequences in this movie (or at least a lot less then most would expect) it's hard to really stay involved with the movie. It gets repetitive seeings as though we've seen this in Predator movies before, and nothing has really changed; some of the explosions appear as if they were just taken from the old films. Yes ladies and gents, thats how fake they look.
Will the Predator be back any time soon? I freaking hope not under this cast set and direction.