PREDATORS **½

Nimród Antal  directed this Action/Thriller. Watch Preview Cast: Adrien Brody, Topher Grace, Alice Braga, Walton Goggins, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Trejo, Oleg Taktarov, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Louiz Ozawa. Rated R for strong creature violence and gore, and pervasive language. Running time is one hour and forty-six minutes.

A mercenary (Brody) reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they've been brought together on an alien planet... as prey. With the possible exception of a disgraced physician (Grace), they are all cold-blooded killers -  human "predators" that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

 I didn't hold out much hope for this as the others in the series subsequent to the original have not been good. This one, however, was a pleasant surprise in that it was better than expected. There's plenty of "Predator" type violence although you really don't see the Predators that much. The plot isn't totally predictable and even has a twist at the end I didn't see coming. Action fans should be reasonably satiated. Theatres/Times.