by sultan bey » July 13th 2010 2:32 am
[spoil][align=left]Why is it so hard to make a movie I like? I was disappointed, and feel like for this movie, I was in the position to be easily pleased.
It took too long for the movie to get going. They should have just started it with Danny Trejos' death and saved us the first 20mins that could have been delivered in the first few mins. The supporting characters were mostly boring and I didn't care if they lived or died. I thought Adrian Brody did a good job, but didn't have much to work with. Best actor was Fishburne by far. Been a much lamer movie without him. It went boring 20min intro, I became interested when Trejos character was used as bait. It got boring again for another 20mins ( guestimate, I didn't keep time) and then Fishburne. That got me back in it, leading up to the predators finally showing up on screen. But, the worst thing ever happened. It got dark on the hunting preserve and I could not see crap. I felt cheated. The fighting scenes amongst predators was mostly too close up, and too fast action. I couldn't see any details of the fighting to know who did what. The jungle was boring. It's more dangerous behind my grandma's house than that place.
Another big disappointment for me was the lack of any cool predator gear. They seem to now prefer the wrist blades and I think they are boring. Where is the Frisbee, portable net (there was a net, but it was old fashion man jungle type net) and the short stick that extends into a 6ft killing shaft? Also, not enough predator vision. But plenty of audio files. The predators only reached for their wrist computer towards the tail end of the movie. The hunting dogs, while the cgi looked ok, they were lame and not used in the best way. Also, the lone alien that was killed I guess by Fishburne? He got the briefest of time, but maybe his perspective would have been more interesting than a glancing death shot. The hawk recon device the predators used was decent (because it had predator vision)
One of the best surprises was seeing the og predator tied to that arch thing. The predator camp it was held in was lame. I think too crowded. That story line ended up wasted because it didn't seem believable that while the predator may understand the most likely thing Royce is asking is for a way off the planet. Why would he power up the ship and give it to him? I know, in exchange for his release. The other predators left him tied up with a remote control to the ship on his wrist? Was that part of the challenge? What if he could remote control the ship to his advantage while tied to the arch? Maybe that's too picky, but I expected a movie I'd read had been written and re-written over however many years would have a tighter story.
Just goes to show how good the first one was. This one had no chemistry.[/align][/spoil]