There's plenty of actors to take note of Adrien Brody (The Pianist, King Kong, Splice) as Ex-Black Ops Mercenary Royce, whom both emulates Schwarzenegger and takes the lead in a new direction Danny Trejo (Machete, Death Race 2) as Chuchillo who's a brutal enforcer from the Los Zetas drug cartel in Mexico Oleg Taktarov (Rollerball, Righteous Kill) as Nikolai, Russian Heavy Weapons Spetsnaz Alpha Group commander (whom my friend Calum introduced me to, he's a fan of the guy from his UFC days) Laurence Fishburne (Apocalypse Now, The Matrix) as Noland, a US Air Cav. (Let it be known that I actually like the AVP films more than most people). I can only imagine what good it would have done for the franchise if this had been the sequel to Predator, and Predator 2, AVP and Requiem all faded away like a bad dream, then the time wasted on those was put to better use continuing the vein of this and the original. Predators touches on some Grindhouse conventions without slipping into the cheesiness of it. It completely restored validity to the Predator series that was called into question with the release of Alien VS Predator and Requiem. I can honestly say this is my favourite entry in the Alien/Predator franchise since the original Predator in 1987.
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