Everyone’s big-game-hunting alien(s) return in the latest installment of the Predator saga. What’s new this time? Not very much other than their race can be over ten-feet tall. Shane Black takes a shot at directing and in my opinion he came up short. He just made the same 1987 and 1990 movies, except the creature is trying to retrieve some stolen technology a US soldier managed to ship home. Plus, the government is aware of the aliens’ visits. Nothing terribly interesting beyond a by-the-numbers flick. The ending is also lame.
If you’re a fan, you’ll probably see it and be disappointed. Everybody else, don’t bother.
Alamo Extras: Trailers for It Came Without Warning, Robowar (an Italian ripoff of Predator) and Predator 2; scenes from a Japanese movie involving samurai v. cyborgs; footage of the CapCom video game AVP; Thomas Jane singing in an Indian movie; a little kid dressed up as a Predator at a convention; dancing Predators montage; Brad Neely’s “Preteen with a Predator Head” cartoon; Alamo’s collection of 100 Alien Movie Sightings (quite a collection, covering a century); lastly, everyone’s favorite fights with the Predator:
- Gary Busey in Predator 2
- Walter Goggins in Predators
- Carl Weathers in Predator
- Calvin Lockhart, aka “King Willie” in Predator 2
- Arnold (of course) in Predator