Actors: Elle Fanning as Thia/Tessa, Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi, Reuben de Jong, Mike Homik
Rating: 9 out of 10, Only Hollywood would try to make one of
the 1980s arch villains into a hero. Predators have always had a tinge of
respectability because of the warrior ethos and they liked to kill aliens but
this was a bona fide attempt to make a movie with one of the predators as the
focus point and hero. Somehow it works. Really well. A smallish predator
escapes his family, which is trying to kill him for his lack of stature, and
tries to prove himself by going after an apex killer on the appropriately named
Death Planet. There he runs into a crew of cyborgs, sent from the
Weyland-Yutani Corporation (of Aliens infamy) who are after the same creature.
Elle Fanning (always good) plays one of the cyborgs cut in half by the creature
and teams up with the predator. The interaction between those two is worth the
price of admission by itself. You add in the state-of-the-art CGI with non-stop
action and you’ve got a pretty good flick. Go figure – rooting for a predator.
Loved it.
MVP:
Fanning in the dual role of Thia/Tessa, needed comic relief and deadly presence
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