{"id":2518,"date":"2010-07-11T10:31:30","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T00:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2518"},"modified":"2010-08-26T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:18:59","slug":"predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thefatwebsite.com\/?p=2518","title":{"rendered":"Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"

Predators<\/em> is a solidly crafted action movie produced by a team that clearly have an affinity for the Predator<\/em> franchise and have seen their fair share of B-movies.\u00a0 I don’t think you can’t appreciate how purely distilled<\/em> this B-movie experience is from reading a review.\u00a0 Everything about this film is served up with a big block of cheese.\u00a0 It’s a lot of fun if you like this sort of thing.<\/p>\n

Starting with the plot, there is virtually no time wasted in setting up the premise.\u00a0 In fact, the ingredients to the film literally and conveniently fall from the sky and into a jungle.\u00a0 You’ve got a group of strangers who awake after seeing ‘a bright light’ only to find themselves freefalling onto an alien planet.\u00a0 They are sort of like the cast of Spike TV’s Deadliest Warrior<\/em>.\u00a0 There’s African Warlord guy, Asian yakuza guy, American convict guy and so on.\u00a0 The choice of casting is excellent with plenty of likeable and familiar faces such as Danny Trujo, Topher Grace and Adrian Brody.<\/p>\n

I always find Brody takes a little getting used to for these sort of films.\u00a0 The first film I ever saw him in was the World War II drama The Pianist<\/em> where he played a particularly challenging and nuanced role.\u00a0 Of course there are plenty of other actors who’ve had the same career trajectory.\u00a0 Michael Clarke Duncan was in the Scorpion King<\/em> after The Green Mile<\/em>.\u00a0 Jamie Foxx followed up Ray<\/em> with Stealth<\/em>.\u00a0 Yet I always find it takes me a little bit longer to get used to the sight of Brody appearing in such a shlocky film.\u00a0 Still, he plays the part of ‘Royce’ admirably.\u00a0 He’s ridiculously buff and the way he grunts every line of dialogue registers about eight out of ten on the Christian Bale’s In The Dark Knight<\/em> scale.<\/p>\n

Anyway, getting back to the guys on in the jungle.\u00a0 They soon work out that they have been kidnapped by the Predators and have been let free into a game preserve so that they may be hunted for sport.\u00a0 From here, carnage ensues as the poor guys get picked off one by one in an intergalactic battle for survival.\u00a0 It’s good stuff.<\/p>\n

I mentioned before just how robust this film was in its cheesiness.\u00a0 Exactly 50% of the dialogue in this film is composed of rhetorical questions set up for the other 50% which are one liners by Adrian Brody.\u00a0 Something along the lines of<\/p>\n

Some Guy:\u00a0 Look at the size of those wounds!\u00a0 Who could have killed this man?
\nBrody:\u00a0 Not ‘who’….’what’<\/em><\/p>\n

Some Guy:\u00a0 How do you know they intend to split us up and hunt us down one by one?
\nBrody:\u00a0 Because…thats why I’d do<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Some Guy:\u00a0 We don’t stand a chance!\u00a0 How long can we survive, running away from these things?
\nBrody:\u00a0 We won’t.\u00a0 That’s why we stand and fight<\/em>.<\/p>\n

And so on and so on.<\/p>\n

Predators<\/em> goes over well worn ground but is still an entertaining journey.\u00a0 Variety is the spice of life and by nature of having an assorted cast of oddjobs in the jungle, the action gets mixed up plenty.\u00a0 Not only do we get the standard fare of Predators shooting colourful laser beams at people, we are also treated to a samurai showdown (hur), a Predator fighting a redneck with a shank and even a Predator versus another Predator.<\/p>\n

It’s certainly got nothing on the original film but you can’t really go wrong if you’re looking for an entertaining 90 minute throwback to one of the greatest monster movies ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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