“Predators” — A Hollywood Reporter Film Review

Director: Nimrod Antal
Screenwriters: Alex Litvak and Michael Finch
Executive producer: Alex Young
Producers: Robert Rodriguez, John Davis, Elizabeth Avellan
Actors: Adrien Brody, Laurence Fishburne, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali & Danny Trejo
Rating: R, 106 minutes

Now everybody’s favorite extraterrestrial, invisibility-cloaked, trophy-hunting life-form returns to prey on Adrien Brody and company on its home turf in “Predators.”

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.

Those moments, unfortunately, are fewer and farther between as the film progresses, giving way to flat-out incoherence.

Still, this reboot packs sufficient hits of guilty pleasure to keep the franchise alive, with an international cast that should help extend its boxoffice reach well beyond North America……

Despite the intriguing set-up, several of the sequences also begin to feel as if they’ve been recklessly dropped into place rather than strategically assembled to build off each other, creating a semblance of dramatic tension……

….script originally penned by Rodriguez back in 1994.

Read the full review on the The Hollywood Reporter website.