Robert Rodriguez has never been a favorite director of mine. My undying love for B-films aside, Rodriguez always weighs what could’ve been simple and fun down with over-complicated plots (“Once Upon a Time in Mexico”) and way too much talk. Interesting concepts and a few good action scenes just can’t compensate for a story that never pops — that never hits that point where you lean forward in your seat ready for the payoff.
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The effectively brutal “Sin City,” where the director wisely remained faithful to the structure and style of Frank Miller’s source material, proved that the main problem with Rodriguez’s work is structure. His stories don’t flow, pick up momentum, or ever feel like they’re going anywhere.
This Predators trailer, however, looks terrific.
But now we have to deal with the whole political thing. Now that Rodriguez has proven himself more than capable of going to the darkside of racial divisiveness and hard-left politics — not to mention a sense of entitlement for our tax dollars only a millionaire, Hollywood leftist could summon — we all will now have to sit through Predators wondering when and if we’re going to get hit over the head with La Raza talking points. Or do we?
Big Hollywood has the script and we have Joseph Lindsey’s terrific review.
Tune in tomorrow, will ya?
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