The Predator (2018)
Director: Shane Black. (15)
Synopsis
Whilst on a mission sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) witnesses a spacecraft crash-land near to him. He escapes with some of the ship’s contents, which are mistakenly mailed back home to his son, a child genius who has Asperger’s Syndrome.
Little Rory (Jacob Tremblay) obsessively studies the articles, alerting the alien to their location and heralding his flight from a research lab where has been nicknamed ‘Predator’.
It’s up to Quinn and a plucky geneticist (Olivia Munn) to prevent the child being killed. But is mankind at risk? Why are Predator and his species making so many visits to Earth?
Review, by Jason Day (@Reelreviewer)
Cinema has had a predilection for repeating itself ever since its birth in the late 19th century, but of late movie theatres have been awash with a frankly tepid dishwater soup of derivative sequels, rehashes, reboots and remakes.
Thus, driving to my local multiplex on a Sunday lunchtime (with a hangover – another story) to see the latest instalment in the Predator series of films (this is the most recent of six) was not a pleasant one.
Thankfully, it was a worthwhile one.
With a solid, hardworking cast sparking off a very funny, very dark screenplay (Moonlight's Trevante Rhodes just about nudging ahead as the best), some splendid action sequences and gut-pummelling suspense from director Shane Black, this reboot/refresh/rehash (whatever you want to call it) of the original Arnie hit from 1987 has it in spades.
It delivers...and leaves this reinvigoration of the franchise wide open for another movie.
For more, read my full review: http://bit.ly/predatorfilm2018
Cast & Crew
1hr 47 mins (107mins). Twentieth Century Fox/Davis Entertainment/TSG Entertainment/Canada Film Capital/Dark Castle Entertainment.
Producers: John Davis, Lawrence Gordon.
Writers: Fred Dekker, Shane Black.
Camera: Larry Fong.
Music: Harry Jackman.
Sets: Martin Whist.
Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Kay, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Augusto Aguilero, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski.
Image: 20th Century Fox
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