As for the main contenders – the Predator is big, here, I mean real big, in different “cold” armour, but when he gets his helmet off, his make-up is crap and a big step down from that seen in the 1987 PREDATOR. Other actors include Snatch’s Ewen Bremner, wasted as a kind-of comic relief Scotsman then we’re down to people like Patrick Troughton’s grandson and that scarred guy out of GLADIATOR, but the characterisation attempts fall flat. Still, he has one good scene, involving him using a makeshift flamethrower on a retreating Predator – great spectacle! While it is cool to see Henriksen back in action – and I loved the pen trick, a reference to ALIENS – it’s sad to see him as an ill, tired old man, and something of a wasted opportunity – I would loved to have seen him return as Bishop. This time, though, he isn’t the android Bishop, instead the old man who inspired creation of the androids in the future (this film is set in the present day). Heavyweight acting comes from Lance Henriksen, returning to the series after ALIENS and ALIEN 3. Then there’s Italian heart-throb Raoul Bava as a charismatic archaeologist, and I did enjoy the twist involving his character towards the end. The worst offender is unknown lead Sanaa Lathan, who goes for the tough heroine approach a la Sigourney Weaver, but she’s bland and uninteresting in comparison.
Sadly, this elaborate and expensive set-up eventually results in a load of uninteresting characters running around corridors in the dark, getting bumped off one by one. Now, the general plot sounds great I love the way the mythology of Predators visiting ancient civilisations and instructing them to build pyramids ties up with real theories (try reading Chariots of the Gods) and the idea of a vast, ancient walled city beneath Antarctica is straight out of the Lovecraft story, At the Mountains of Madness. Sadly, the film is much less enthralling, offering a minimum of actual alien-on-predator action, instead focusing on a large bunch of uninteresting characters (mostly unknown actors) who wander around for about forty-five minutes before things start warming up. predator pulp novels about fifteen years ago, which provided high entertainment value all the way through. I was looking forward to this cross-genre collaboration ever since I read a few of those alien vs.
Predator Movie Reviews There’s some cool stuff here, but the film is still a failure
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