But when Predators swing aliens around their heads like lassos, it’s easy to forget that such creatures once existed in the nightmarish premises imagined by famous surrealist H.R. A spattering of action sequences is well-choreographed and, at rare moments, the shape of a man in a rubbery monster suit is permissible (through lighting and other obscurations). The character development is rather pointless, especially considering how fast the body count rises generally, just after viewers are acquainted with some personal aspect of a character’s life, that persona is disposed of.
One by one, the human fodder is ushered into lonesome passageways and claustrophobic tunnels to meet off-screen demises that audiences can only assume are horrendous. What follows are some of the mildest scenes of action and violence imaginable. To complicate matters further, the booby-trapped pyramidal structure changes shape every ten minutes, with sliding walls and rotating pillars designed to separate the party. The tragically unprepared platoon ventures into an icy trap 2000 feet below the surface, where extraterrestrial humanoid Predators purposefully lure pray toward alien eggs so they can duel the offspring within the labyrinthine corridors of the icy monolith. A handpicked team is assembled by industrialist billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) and led by survivalist Alexa Woods (Sanaa Latham). This is to be expected, however, from a movie rated PG-13, in part, for “slime.”Ī group of scientists, engineers, environmental experts, and adventurers are pawns in a diabolical rite of passage when they journey to the middle of Antarctica to explore an ancient ziggurat-like pyramid. Far from the macabre masterpieces of 19, this new mishmash of comic book lore and wildly nonsensical fanboy subplots deteriorates the awe of the creatures themselves, while also serving as an insult to the viewer and a blasphemy to filmmakers Ridley Scott, John McTiernan, and James Cameron. Predator” makes a mockery of the intense and ruthless sci-fi creations defined in the previous, highly successful productions. Greatly disappointing 5th film in the “Alien” franchise (also the third in the “Predator” series), “Alien vs. Anderson Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan, Joseph Rye, Agathe de La Boulaye A Release Date: August 13th, 2004 MPAA Rating: PG-13ĭirector: Paul W.S.
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