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For a start - a few general points. It's not a remake or a reboot, but the events of the first "Predator" are mentioned in the film only in passing and once: "When Schaeffer first Predator killed in the 87th, his self-destruct device has left the crater." So the sequel to this case, too, will not name ...
We have before us the author's film Black, using the design of monsters and weapons from the previous pictures of predators. Predators here are doing things that any other author would have looked bad fanfic: grab human weapons and shoot out of it, talking in broken English through Google-translator. One of the characters get into Predator helmet and goes for a walk in Halloween, blowing up houses and killing people from a laser cannon on the helmet. But Shane Black is all somehow works ... and in the third act the action reaches the heating and sophistication comparable to the best action movies 80s.
I would like to draw your attention to participation in the project by Fred Dekker. If you watched it very strange hybrid genre films Night of the Creeps and The Monster Squad, then you know what to expect from The Predator: children's comedy, which suddenly becomes a fighter, insurgent, who suddenly turns into a horror and horror, suddenly mutating into a scientific fiction.
The first act begins in Cuba, where a group of elite special forces under the command of the sniper Quinn McKenna (Boyd Holbrook) is preparing an operation to remove a local drug lord.
In the most crucial moment in the jungle area, in which Quinn had taken refuge, he falls invisible escape pod from the ship Predators. In the hands of Quinn get a personal computer, and the device camouflage helmet Predator that commando takes with him, "to believe." Predator ejected from the capsule kills all people McKenna and disappears without a trace.
Quinn uses cloaking device to get to the nearest town and send the helmet and a computer in the United States. Then he falls into the hands of mercenaries of the US company Stargazer and CIA agent Tregera (Sterling K. Brown), who shoot Quinn tranquilizer and sent him to a psychiatric hospital for veterans.
fter vigorous prologue start to come true all your worst fears about a new "Predator":
the film is transferred to the American suburb in the state of Georgia
the protagonist becomes Rory (Jacob Tremblay), son Quinn, a brilliant autistic boy who accidentally come helmet and a computer from Dad
It appears heroine, Casey Brackett (Olivia Munn), biologists, Stargazer which invites to the secret base to study the body of the dead Predator (the one with whom he met in the Cuban jungle Quinn)
It's not even that the Raptors in the American city we've seen in Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (the lowest point of the series about aliens and predators), child-pariah - in almost all the previous films Shane Black (especially in The Nice Guys, Iron Man 3 and Last Action Hero), but the whole story line is very quickly Mann borrowed from "Arrival" screenplay.
The thing predictable plot canvas in the second act of the scenario: once it is clear that the predator is not actually dead, that the base Stargazer he was specifically looking for a personal computer, and that, not finding him there, the stranger went to look for Rory, like Terminator or Anton Chigur of No Country for Old Men.
Routine setting only emphasizes punching plot moves from standard thriller, which somehow wormed Predator: Mercenaries come home to Rory, alien dog killing mercenaries, have joined forces and Casey Quinn kill the alien dogs ...
Of course, it's still Shane Black: Quinn very creative escapes from the hospital with the support of the whole bus Deranged veterans who become his new squad. Casey releases excellent jokes, for the understanding of which is necessary to learn about the history kinofranchayza: "Why do you call it the Predator? He's a hunter! "(Original screenplay Jim and John Thomas was called the Hunter, it was renamed in the Predator in the production process).
Veterans are divided completely untranslatable obscene jokes, like Shane Black's character in the original "Predator." No one is surprised that Quinn was in contact with real live alien: shell-shocked Afghans only grimly shake their heads and agree, that "these aliens are already zadolbali".
The main alien ship - Ark - makes emergency landing in Florida, and comes out of it virtually invulnerable super-predator. It kills the usual, small predators and chasing Rory Quinn and as long as Quinn does not know to throw a personal computer from the car window. Super Predator picks up the computer and go, Quinn, Rory Casey again and capture the mercenaries of the Stargazer.
Explains that the Raptors pull people (and not just people) of the spine is not just so, and then to extract DNA from them and use it to create new Predators hybrids that are better adapted to survival. Also it explains that the Predators planet gradually cooled, and they are preparing for mass migration to Earth, where there was one or two generations to catastrophic global warming.
Actually, everything is clear: left to somehow get rid of Tregera and round out the line with a super-predator, so that the audience went home disappointed, but the entertainment in general.
But where the mediocre and lazy writers stop, where in Alien vs. Predator, Aliens vs Predator: Requiem Predator 2 or all would have ended the confrontation of the hero and super-Predator, Black includes a higher gear and start writing in earnest.
Firstly, all the bad guys from the Stargazer quickly killed and the Ark into the hands of the US military. The heroes are the famous "Zone 51" in the Nevada desert, where it turns out that humanity has for many years with leading Predators Cold War ... and where in comfortable chambers sit two Predator-defector who joined the people of the secrets of his race! Super Predator - the hired killer, who was sent to Earth on a mission to destroy the defectors. Remember where the script began, and what mission Quinn performed in Cuba?
Secondly, super-predator opens all the cryo-capsules on the Ark, releasing an army of hybrid Predators: on two legs, three, four, on the tentacles ... general at them - only spotted the head and mandibles. This gang is attacking Area 51 as heroes with a predator-defectors make a strategic retreat on a convoy of jeeps and armored vehicles. Nightmare hybrids kill all the guards, but Casey and Rory on board the Ark realize that all hybrids are equipped with self-destruct collars. Rory learns to control the Ark, and in the last moment activates these collars, throwing Casey in an escape pod to the transmitter. When the capsule sweeps past - hybrids explode. Very beautiful.
Third, Rory makes a forced landing on the Ark of the football field near the school. Appears Super Predator, Predators kill defectors and takes Rory captured as the most worthy opponent (autistic boy blew all Hebrides and learned to control the spaceship). Quinn sees this and rushes to the surface of the spacecraft taking off. When the Ark shell fighter F-22, Quinn has to jump off the reservation on the force field and to roll on its back face on the background of fire and explosions. He sees on a hatch on the location shooting of a rescue capsule, opens it, firing into the ship ...
The field is switched off, Quinn falls and manages to grab the pilot of one of the downed F-22 Parachute.
They land in the Florida swamp, Ark broken nearby Super Predator also catapulted ... In the final match with a Predator participate Quinn (with a sniper rifle), Rory (cut-off time to arm Predator included a force field of the Ark) and Casey (which uses camouflage kit to artfully cut Predator dreadlocks - in fact it is not dreadlocks, but something in between the tentacles and antennae).
Eventually Quinn fatally Super Predator using severed limb and the collar of self-destruction. Dad and son standing over the defeated enemy and share the latest phrases through Google-translator:
I am a warrior. You?
Same.
The surviving heroes wander to the helicopter ... where they were waiting for Arnold Schwarzenegger in the role of old-Alan "Datca" Schaeffer. He said that the real war began with the Predators, and takes Quinn, Casey and Rory in the next series.
