****Four Out of Ten Stars****
What can be said here? So much potential squandered on lazy writing. And a $40,000,000 budget to boot! Wow! And this is the best Fox could come up with? Writers Alex Litvak and Michael Finch sh-lop together a story about human predators somehow abducted from Earth and somehow air lifted to an unknown planet so the Predator species can hunt them for sport. Yeah, nothing really original or interesting about that. The concept is just plain lazy, but perhaps they were rushed into writing this crap. Don't forget the addition of a secondary race of Super-Predators, who have much larger sex organs than the original Predators; well sort of. Anyway, the story board wastes it's time on the miscast leads, actors Adrien Brody and Alice Braga, who both phone in their performances and are completely miscast. Meanwhile, the most interesting characters, played by actors Louis Ozawa Changchien, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, and Oleg Taktarov, are almost ignored and disposed of much much too soon; it's a disgrace these four characters were wasted. Regardless, it's not as if the original "Predator" was anything noble. So how could we expect much more than mediocrity from a film such as this?
What can be said here? So much potential squandered on lazy writing. And a $40,000,000 budget to boot! Wow! And this is the best Fox could come up with? Writers Alex Litvak and Michael Finch sh-lop together a story about human predators somehow abducted from Earth and somehow air lifted to an unknown planet so the Predator species can hunt them for sport. Yeah, nothing really original or interesting about that. The concept is just plain lazy, but perhaps they were rushed into writing this crap. Don't forget the addition of a secondary race of Super-Predators, who have much larger sex organs than the original Predators; well sort of. Anyway, the story board wastes it's time on the miscast leads, actors Adrien Brody and Alice Braga, who both phone in their performances and are completely miscast. Meanwhile, the most interesting characters, played by actors Louis Ozawa Changchien, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, and Oleg Taktarov, are almost ignored and disposed of much much too soon; it's a disgrace these four characters were wasted. Regardless, it's not as if the original "Predator" was anything noble. So how could we expect much more than mediocrity from a film such as this?
