the "wtf?" quality necessary for this kind of "out-of-their-depth" story.  It also manages to pay homage to fiction's Rosetta Stone of this sub-genre, Richard Connell 's " The Most Dangerous Game ."  TMDG was at the core of the original, but "Predators" manages to take it several steps further, even incorporating that other "man-hunters-in-the-jungle" story, Joseph Conrad