Suckage

Rating: 2/10 (13 August 2004)

Disappointing. The music sucked. The mix sucked. The acting by the Predators paled in comparison to the first. I never cared about any of the characters (the actors did a decent job, it was the writing that sucked), and thus felt they were disposed of in the movie so effortlessly. The action felt subdued, and part of that is probably the oh so popular style of covering action these days, with close ups on fists, faces, limbs and such and fast cutting. Done tastefully that can work, but to make that the meat and potatoes of an action scene seems to really take away the impact of a fight. The other helping hand in making the action subdued was the PG-13 rating. What a stupid idea. Let's take two of the greatest sci-fi action films of all time, have the main characters meet for a face off unlike any other, and dumb it down and make it PG-13? Bad call. Seriously bad call.