Another week, another SMEx, another review for the president. Why do you ask? A couple of reasons:

1. A certian Englishman, who is soon to be a Yank, was bragging he had more reviews than the president… well not anymore!
2. Apparently I was the only person who actually liked this movie.

So this week was just a small event, with just four attendees, but we found a couple of wannabe SMEx-ers in the cinema. We started back at the Park Lounge (apparently re-opened after yet another shut-down) in the last throws of a nice Oslo summer evening. Nice weather to take a beer.

So the movie. Being part of the Predator franchise this movie had some big shoes to fill, but quite frankly it has been all down hill since Dutch survived a nuclear explosion to kill the original Predator. Since then all manner of twists have been thrown in including, Predators in the city, or throw in some Aliens to get more bad guys. But this movie takes us all the way back to the beginning.

This movie is really just a remake of the original Predator with Arnie, right down to Arnie’s original quote telling you the plot… “So you cooked up a story and dropped the six of us in a meatgrinder?” So maybe there’s not six people this time, sure there are more predators (hence the “s”), maybe it’s not even on the same planet, but in the send it’s a similar story. To look at it another way, it’s the same type of remake as Escape from L.A., which was just a remake of Escape from New York.

If this movie did one thing bad it was too much like the original even down to the point where they used the same lines from the first movie, and the effect wasn’t quite the same when they weren’t said with an Austrian accent. But I still loved it! It had the original feel and atmosphere of the first one, suspense, action which was helped by having the exact same music. So if you love the first movie, I’m sure you’ll at least like this one! Best Predator since the original!