Rating:

The good news is that this is the best “Predator” movie since the original … though still not quite as good as the first. It’s well made and well cast, there’s plenty of action, and it’s not a gawdawful special effects orgy.

The bad news is that, despite the production values and strong cast it’s still … well … kind of boring.

The story is that a bunch of mercenaries, soldiers, convicts, and more or less the worst people on earth get scooped up by the Predators and parachuted onto their game preserve on some planet. There they figure out that they are the “game” and are being hunted, from which point it’s the classic hunter vs. hunted kind of deal.

Adrien Brody is pretty good as the de-facto leader of the earthlings. He’s got that detached violence kind of aura down pretty well so he works in the role. But he’s almost too dry … it’s…