Predator once again finds himself in the jungle in his fifth film, which is essentially just a needless remake of the original. Like the other “Predator” sequels before it, this movie fails to hold a candle to the first. This one certainly isn’t the weakest but at least the others tried something different.

Although it is set on a different planet, there is more than one Predator and there are some other differences, this is basically just a lame version of the original. We see a band of tough humans taking on the creatures in a jungle environment. Several shots and even lines are lifted from the first film and it makes this just a pointless movie.

Adrien Brody (“The Pianist”, “Splice”) stars as Royce, who is virtually the same as Dutch played by Arnold Schwarzenegger (“The Terminator”) but Brody just lacks the physique and voice to come anywhere close to matching his counterpart. The only man in the film that could is Danny Trejo, who has been in the director Robert Rodriguez’s other films such as “Machete” and “Spy Kids”. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have much screen-time and if you’ve seen the original, you can guess why. The Predators don’t really look any better/different so that’s another reason why this is a worthless sequel/remake.

“Predators” is marketed as a sequel but it really isn’t. The film isn’t all that bad but we have the original, which does everything at least twice as good as this. I have been waiting for a good follow-up to “Predator” and I was informed numerous times that this was the one I’d been waiting for but it wasn’t to be. The first film was directed by John McTiernan, whose movies “Die Hard” and “The Hunt For Red October” highly impressed me while Robert Rodriguez’s other efforts have usually been underwhelming.