Predators is just an awful, awful movie. The quality of the writing, acting, cinematography and special effects are barely up to the level of a student film. It is astonishing to see an actor of Adrien Brody's quality embarrassing himself with such a weird, forced performance. I kept thinking, did he really speak like that on set, or did they have to go back and dub it in later? I hope they paid him a lot of money. (They must have paid it to somebody - it sure wasn't the writer.)
Topher Grace's performance as the doctor is so bad you wonder if the editors accidentally cut in the takes where he was just deadpanning lines for the audio mixer to set levels on the microphone. I felt especially bad watching Walton Goggins laboring to perform his luridly written death row inmate, because he's proved on the FX series "Justified" to be capable of so much nuance and complexity.
The overall quality of this movie is very similar to an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where most of the lights went out on set, but they decided to keep working to save money. I agree with some of the other reviewers that the IMDb rating of this movie of 7.6 is very fishy. I don't know if the studio is actually hiring college students to stay up all night casting big votes for their movie -- but if so, shouldn't that effort have gone into actually making the movie better in the first place, instead of into promoting the disaster of a film that they produced?
Topher Grace's performance as the doctor is so bad you wonder if the editors accidentally cut in the takes where he was just deadpanning lines for the audio mixer to set levels on the microphone. I felt especially bad watching Walton Goggins laboring to perform his luridly written death row inmate, because he's proved on the FX series "Justified" to be capable of so much nuance and complexity.
The overall quality of this movie is very similar to an episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles where most of the lights went out on set, but they decided to keep working to save money. I agree with some of the other reviewers that the IMDb rating of this movie of 7.6 is very fishy. I don't know if the studio is actually hiring college students to stay up all night casting big votes for their movie -- but if so, shouldn't that effort have gone into actually making the movie better in the first place, instead of into promoting the disaster of a film that they produced?