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Predators

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Action  |  Adventure  |  Sci-fi  |  Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Alex Litvak
Michael Finch

Directed by: Nimrod Antal

Release Date:
Theatrical: July 9, 2010

Running Time: 106 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for strong creature violence, gore, and pervasive language

Starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, and Louiz Ozawa

A bold new chapter in the Predator universe, "Predators" was shot on location under Rodriguez's creative auspices at the filmmaker's Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, and is directed by Nimród Antal. The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human "predators" that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators. (20th Century Fox)

What The Critics Said

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88

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

Antal is a professional who respects your dollars. In a season where the blockbusters are as flat as month-old soda, that’s the most romantic gesture a commercial filmmaker can make.

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75

New York Post Lou Lumenick

After 23 years and three attempts, Predators finally delivers a solid sequel to the Arnold Schwarzenegger B-movie classic.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Jennie Punter

Predators never gives us the satisfaction of knowing what motivates the alien hunters to use humans for sport, but at least it has fun showing us that humans can, indeed, be the most dangerous game.

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70

Boxoffice Magazine Pam Grady

Predators is sometimes silly and hardly original, but it delivers the thrills.

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70

Movieline Michelle Orange

Amid the macho poses and reloading of his unbelievably enormous weapon, I was distracted by the notion of Brody’s participation as a kind of privately satisfying performance art (a similar impulse found James Franco doing a guest stint on "General Hospital").

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67

Portland Oregonian M. E. Russell

While Predators isn't nearly as vivid or fresh as the original, it's certainly its strongest sequel.

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67

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Summer was made for this kind of film, and Predators is almost exactly what you need to fix this otherwise busted summer cinema season.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

It's solidly entertaining for what it is and, while it does little to truly rejuvenate the franchise, at least it lessens the pain caused by two gimmicky cross-over pictures that sucked too much juice out of what was one of the 1980s' most surprisingly tense sci-fi action pictures.

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63

USA Today Claudia Puig

Alice Braga plays an Army sniper uniquely familiar with jungle fighting. She is the only one of the crew who does any soul-searching to figure out why this particular group was chosen as prey.

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63

Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan

It's hard to take Predators terribly seriously.

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60

Empire Kim Newman

A solidly okay Saturday night effort, but unambitious considering the talent involved. Maybe Rodriguez should direct Predator Resurrection, but get a science fiction writer to script it.

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60

Time Out New York David Fear

The odor of musty, late-’80s nostalgia may still hover around this already threadbare brand, but you simply don’t see movies that leave both the curious and the fans who truly care this viscerally satisfied anymore.

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60

LA Weekly Nick Pinkerton

Doing The Most Dangerous Game is, for action directors, what covering "Satisfaction" is to bar bands; if you hit most of the notes, it'll do.

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50

Chicago Reader Cliff Doerksen

The dialogue is dumber than dirt, and the plot crumbles at the halfway mark, but the movie does what a loud summer blockbuster should, which is loudly bust blocks.

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50

Premiere Nick Starkey

Predators biggest failing is that it manages to make its sci-fi violence absurdly boring.

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50

Orlando Sentinel Roger Moore

All these years after Predator, these decades past the classic film, "Most Dangerous Game," that inspired this genre, it’s good to see the idea of the hunter becoming the hunted still gets the blood racing.

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50

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

The movie is mostly about our nasty heroes being attacked by terrifying antagonists in incomprehensible muddles of lightning-fast special effects. It lacks the quiet suspense of the first “Predator,” and please don't even mention the “Alien vs. Predator” pictures, which lacked the subtlety of “Mothra vs. Godzilla.”

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50

Arizona Republic Bill Goodykoontz

A pretty good action movie for about 45 minutes. Unfortunately, it lasts 106.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips

Predators, plural, starts well and ends poorly, and in the middle it's in the middle.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen

Very much bearing the creative imprint of Robert Rodriguez, but directed by Nimrod Antal, the new edition, in its best moments, is an unabashed B-movie that plays like a jacked-up "Twilight Zone" with award-winning actors delivering the pulp-infused dialogue.

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50

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Little happens that you don't see coming, down to which cast members will get picked off and in what order. It's a dumb action movie in a summer full of dumb movies, and yet it's always entertaining. And you won't really miss Arnold at all.

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50

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

The Predator series needed a shot of vitality, not another workmanlike go-around. SSDP: Same shit, different planet.

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50

Variety Dennis Harvey

Perfs are adequate in a movie lacking much use for better ones, though Brody disappoints by using the stock sotto voce rasp of the uber-macho action hero who really, really means business.

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50

Philadelphia Inquirer Tirdad Derakhshani

A preposterous, if admittedly fun, exercise in sci-fi/horror mayhem.

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42

Entertainment Weekly Chris Nashawaty

As a fan of Schwarzenegger's macho, heart-of-darkness original, it gives me no pleasure to say that Predators is an uninspired mess of mediocre action scenes strung together until the final reel.

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42

NPR Jeannette Catsoulis

By anyone's reckoning, Predators is a middling 1980s B movie; too bad this is 2010.

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40

New York Daily News Joe Neumaier

Predators tries to spice up the hunt-or-be-hunted thesis, but from the get-go, director Nimrod Antal's movie has nowhere to run.

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30

The New York Times Stephen Holden

As its momentum accelerates, and its special effects transform it into a pulpy cartoon, Predators loses its judgment and turns into a frantic, clichéd chase film. This chaotic stew of fire, blood, mud and explosives is so devoid of terror and suspense that any metaphorical analysis is rendered moot.

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25

St. Petersburg Times Steve Persall

As far as unnecessary movies go, Predators is a pip.

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25

San Francisco Chronicle Amy Biancolli

You can't fool me. I know it's actually a parlor game.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 115 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Tish gave it a2:
It was a really pointless movie...im thinking im goin to see great fights and what not. jus mostly running and stupidity. was really irritated with the movie all around. And the whole big predators hunting the smaller ones...wat is that about. Dude which one was coming to earth then cause im confused. completely made no sense!!!

AZA AZA gave it a2:
What a lame movie!

Fransisco R. gave it a6:
With all the dire remakes of great films from the 80s it's difficult not to look at a trailer for an up and coming sequel like Predators without being filled with ambivalence at the hope that it will live up to your expectations but the knowledge that in reality you'll probably wish it had never been made after you get to see it. Thankfully, Predators isn't as bad as some of the other efforts (AVP being the prime example) but it still relays too heavily on CGI and falls short because of it's age certificate. Another victim of the cinema industries relience on larger audiences over artistic merit.

Soul gave it an8:
Predators was an enjoyable film. The characters in the movie did what they actually should do in the situations presented to them. Adrian Brody succeeded, in my opinion, at becoming a baddass. Topher Grace's character was predictable, and it was a role that suited him. There was sword fighting involved in this movie. Awesome. And the predators were well done, and they didn't go cg heavy. Thankfully. There really wasn't anything that I hated about it. Some of it was predictable, but not many movies aren't predictable anymore. If you enjoyed Predator or Predator 2, then I don't see any reason not to like this movie. It even has the same music from the original and same font style for the title and credits. Looking forward to the next movie in the series.

Andrew P gave it a7:
"Predators" full of 2D characters and CG monsters, entertains well among the summer blockbusters.

Luke B gave it a2:
One of the worst action films I have ever seen. The only enjoyment I got out of it was laughing at the ridiculousness of some of action sequences. The supporting characters are all based on racial stereotypes, and I just hope that Brody is trying to be a gravelly-voice satire of an action hero. I couldn't believe this movie was only 106 minutes long- it felt like 3 hours to me.

Jendo S. gave it a10:
I went in expecting a half-assed action movie sequel, but fortunately, I was wrong. Very wrong. Predators focuses more on the inhabitants of the alien planet instead of the soldiers. We learn more about their classes, their hunting styles, etc. Adrian Brody was actually a very convincing bad-ass, Alice Braga was pretty good as the leading lady, and Topher Grace provided some dark comic relief to the film. Overall, the cast and the acting was very strong throughout the film. The special effects and costumes were very convincing, especially the dogs in the beginning. When Nikolai was dragging one of the deceased hounds for observation, it looked as if it were a real animal. I would strongly recommend this movie. It is suspenseful, exciting, fun to watch and overall a fantastic film. My real rating is a 9.5, but I put a 10 just to balance out the score. I think a 7.8 is incredibly low.

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