{"id":42548,"date":"2026-09-05T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T11:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42548"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T21:17:23","slug":"predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42548","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Predators&#8221; (2010) starring Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershala Ali and Danny Trejo \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090526review_predators.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"736\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Predators <\/i>(2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>Nimr\u00f3d Antal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Alex Litvak, Michael Finch; <\/strong>based on characters created by <strong>Jim Thomas, John Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershala Ali <\/strong>and<strong> Danny Trejo<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>They are the most dangerous killers on the planet&#8230; but this is not our planet.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Seven killers awaken in a jungle.\u00a0 \u00a0They are&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Royce, a mercenary<\/li>\n<li>Isabelle, a sniper<\/li>\n<li>Stans, a death row inmate<\/li>\n<li>Nikoli, a Russian Special Forces soldier<\/li>\n<li>Cuchillo, a cartel enforcer<\/li>\n<li>Hanzo, a Yakuza enforcer<\/li>\n<li>Mombasa, a rebel warrior<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the group is a doctor named Edwin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each of them have no memory of how they got there.\u00a0 In short order they discover they&#8217;re on a distant planet.\u00a0 The animals are dangerous and will kill them.\u00a0 Worse still, they learn that they&#8217;ve been brought to the planet to be hunted by Predators.<\/p>\n<p>There only chance of survival is to band together.<\/p>\n<p>The hunt is on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The script described Cuchillo as a guy who looked like Danny Trejo.\u00a0 Danny Trejo got word and called Robert Rodriguez (one of the producers) and said, &#8220;Hey, I heard there&#8217;s a guy in the script for &#8216;<em>Predators<\/em>&#8216; who looks just like Danny Trejo, and guess what, I look just like Danny Trejo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Adrian Brody was an interesting (and unexpected) choice to play the lead.\u00a0 He does a great job.<\/p>\n<p><em>Predators<\/em> is my second favorite movie of the franchise.\u00a0 (<em>Predator<\/em> is first.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Predators <\/i>(2010)<\/strong> rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090526review_predators2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predators (2010) Director:\u00a0 Nimr\u00f3d Antal Screenplay: \u00a0Alex Litvak, Michael Finch; 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