Visually speaking, the movie looks incredibly underwhelming. The predators look too much like guys in rubber suits. I dunno, somehow the first Predator movie was more convincing. Hell, even the AvP predators looked better.
The tone and plot are interesting however. I just wish the movie looked better.
Definitely the better of the trailers, but using the same predator roar 4 times in one trailer is pretty lazy.
I want to be excited, but I can't really after I heard about (spoilers)How the kid wears the Predator gear to school for halloween and promptly executes his bullies with the predators shoulder canon. That's a level of dumb I can't handle.
It still has that made by numbers feel to it. It's ShanevBlack but I'm not convinced yet.
Definitely looks better, but that leaked plot synopsis seems to be accurate, so I'm not entirely sure how they're going to make that concept not stupid, because it sounded stupid. Shane Black though, so I'm torn.
This sounds more like something from a Shane Black movie.That doesn't actually happen, unless they refilmed that scene different to the leaked script that is out there right now. If you want to know what actually happens...
The bullies are watching in the street, being dicks to the kid as he's trying to trick or treat wearing some Predator items. At one house the kid is attacked by a junkie who throws something at him, hitting him, and as he's scurrying away the shoulder canon autonomously whips over his shoulder and obliterates the junkie behind him. It's obviously played for comedy but it's also meant to be quite shocking.
this just looks like a mediocre action movie. is it even possible to make a good alien or predator movie any more. probably not. the vein is tapped out. once a series starts hybridizing monsters it's all over.
Weird how this trailer changes them from being assassins to Rangers. I wonder if there was a rewrite.
There is two groups of characters apparently, the one mercenary team "assassins" who encountered the predator first, and then the rangers who are arrested for some reason, who end up coming together in the military prison bus scene. They are then forced to work together.
We play these veterans from like Afghanistan, Iraq war or whatever. But we're all fucking crazy so we go to the VA hospital to get our meds. We're all like shellshocked, PTSD…soldiers. We're at the VA hospital and we're in group therapy and of course, somebody flips out…this is backstory, I don't think we really see this…somebody flips out and we all get arrested and get thrown onto the bus to go down to the hospital and they throw this other guy on the bus too.
And he's a guy they've actually marked to kill him because he's seen a UFO, he's seen the Predator ships come down so they lock him up and throw him in with us lunatics. They're going to take that bus, drive it down to a ditch and shoot us all just to get rid of this one guy. But, of course, we take the bus over and we're all like "fuck that man, let's go kill these fucking Predators ourselves" and we're just crazy enough to believe that this guy really did see a UFO and there's these aliens out there. So that's kinda cool!"
No way I am taking Kel Mitchell as an elite special forces soldier.