Rodriguez reboots action classic

“If it bleeds, we can kill it.”
If that statement instantly conjures up images of Arnie and a bunch of future politicians running around a South American jungle playing the most dangerous game with an alien, then you’re going to enjoy “Predators.”
There’s been a lot of debate about whether Robert Rodriguez’s reboot lives up to the original. Some critics say it doesn’t have the “quiet suspense”; others say the dialogue is awful.
Both critiques could be argued, but those are much tamer complaints than critics threw at the original “Predator,” which holds a rating of 36 on Metacritic.
But critical analysis doesn’t really apply to these kinds of films.
“Predators” is about taking the innovative idea that made the original so much fun — the toughest men in the world being hunted and killed one by one — and simply adding more. The film is ridiculously over-the-top: characters get decapitated and have their spines ripped out.
If that’s the sort of thing you enjoy on a Saturday night, you’ll agree “Predators” is one of the best genre films in years.