Originally this weekend I had intentions on seeing The Last Air bender, but a change of plans lead me to Predators. I was somewhat hesitant to see it because of the bad taste left in my mouth from the AVP series. They weren’t terrible, but they weren’t good. Never the less I had nothing to fear having Robert Rodriguez and Troublemaker Studios attached. Plus, who wouldn’t want to see a Rodriguez Predator film that was hyped up in the last SXSW.

Let’s assume you were me and didn’t do any homework on this movie before seeing it. Only thing I gathered from the trailer was a group of highly capable killing machines were taken to a remote area somewhere to face a group of highly capable alien killing machines. Well this is just the main point (no spoiler there). With this being my only thought upon beginning the movie, the story totally expands. Who are these people? Why are the Predators hunting them? Where the heck are they? Most importantly, why is Topher Grace in a Predator movie? These are things that will be asked during the whole movie.

Here’s the part where I’m going to give you reasons to see this film.

A lot of reboots that have been coming out have been reminiscent to their predecessors. Predators is not a reboot, it’s more like a sequel. In order for me to explain, I personally feel like I would be giving away a cool part that would make the movie more fun if you see it yourself. Other things jumped at me that made me think of the original. Like the text used in the beginning credits, the score for the movie, and (without telling) the song played for the ending credits. The song played made me giggle like a little school girl for its significance from the first film.

So to keep this short my honest opinion is see this film if you liked action movies from the 80’s. See it if you like blood, gore, and bullet shells. If you don’t want to see it for the movie, see it for the Machete trailer. I was very entertained, and somewhat relieved from the AVP movies that were released. Based on what I saw, I give it a solid B+. I even think old Arny would agree with that.

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