Unsurprisingly, the cat got out of the bag before shooting even began, but that didn’t make its premise any less interesting. In fact, the original plan was to market the movie (temporarily titled Skulls) as an original story up to a certain point close to its release. Cast: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegroĪfter more than 30 years, the solo Predator franchise dared to escape modern-day settings and went back in time to tell a simple but highly effective tale of survival that happens to feature a Predator.However, there are some sincerely cool action scenes in there, and it’s hard to cover up its key role in defrosting both franchises on the big screen. The jumpy pacing and the watered-down violence (it’s the only PG-13 movie across both franchises) threaten to sink the entire ship. Shane Salerno’s script (he also penned the sequel) is filled with utterly disposable characters outside of Sanaa Lathan’s riff on Ellen Ripley, Machiko Noguchi (the protagonist of the original AvP comics) and Lance Henriksen’s attention-grabbing Charles Weyland, founder of the infamous company from the future-set Alien movies. While this first live-action encounter between the two legendary alien species is undeniably fun and definitely exists in the “better half” of Anderson’s filmography, it’s hard to embrace it as an actually good flick.
Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil) at the helm.
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