ecormier

I'm old. I've seen a few movies (all types) This one is IMHO, the best story and best movie I've ever seen. There's a lot of garbage out there calling itself "entertainment" and is just a copy of a theme or a sequel to a story or something that's entirely predictable because the plot is old. Not this one. I'll remember this movie.

The movie is all that much more for the fact that it is based on facts. There is added value for me when a story is based on facts without a lot of CGI or embellishments. Although there must be some editorializing, this story seems to strike an authenticiticity and the characters are portrayed clearly and honestly. A credit to the actors and directors as well as the writers. For a frame of refererence I rated "Shawshank" a 9 and it was my favourite until now.

What a sad iteration. Terrible writing and terrible plot. By the way, the entire story couldn't have used a technical adviser because apparently gravity didn't exist in this ridiculous tale. My wish is to never waste another 2 hours on rubbish like this again.

Guns have never solved any real human problem, ever, yet the testosterone packed solution for the movie is a super killer. Typical Hollywood. There are two reasons I will suggest why writers would conclude the story line the way this movie does and they are, the ending is completely sarcastic, or even paradoxical, presenting a short sighted, moronic military on which humankind must pin it's future OR the writers forgot why the world is in danger as actually stated in the dialogue and then decided to ignore it, thinking the public is just too weak minded to remember the stated problem that faces civilization. This dystopian future is dark either way. Previous Predator movies asked the audience to suspend disbelief that aliens would come to earth to hunt humans , elevating our stock as being worthy somehow even as prey. This movie tries to elevate mankind as genetic lab rats to be sampled from a doomed planet with no hope of salvation from the inevitable apocalypse. Yet a third plot line is presented by the writers using the apocalypse theme, that being, the writers are scholars of biblical revelations who also believe in aliens. How rogue! In any case the plot is imaginative but seriously flawed.