![]() ![]() Now I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that kind of limited character development so long as the film is aware of that and pushes the action. ![]() Really? Did they shoot the same script he read? Djimon Hounsou’s character for instance can probably be boiled down to three words cold-blooded badass. According to director Paul McGuigan on IMDB’s trivia page, part of the appeal of making “Push” was that “ though it was an action movie, the characters were very developed, much more so than in most such genre films.” It’s just they’re not really massive parts. ![]() Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, the unbelievable Djimon Hounsou the play their parts very well. Throughout all of this I wouldn’t place the fault in the cast. The frustrating element is what I’ve already highlighted. Forgettable fluff could be another form of description you could use. In fact you could even get away with calling it entertaining. ![]() Set the whole thing in Hong Kong and shoot on location so it looks amazing: nice touch.īut the screenplay, the characters: oh dear. Legions of different types of powers including Japanese guys who explode fish by screaming: cool idea. Psychic breed of heroes versus an evil corporation: cool idea. Oh you had so many good ideas, just couldn’t quite pull it off. The “X-Men” films had already been out, “Heroes” and “Fringe” were doing well on the little screen. ‘El que hace trofeos de los hombres’ means ‘the demon who makes trophies of man.Where’s the chicky-chicky who gets us all killed? We found them sometimes without their skin…and sometimes much, much worse. ‘El diablo cazador de hombres.’ Only in the hottest years this happens. The old women in the village crossed themselves and whispered crazy things, strange things. The team has captured a guerilla named Anna (Elpidia Carillo), who tells them, “When I was little we found a man. This stuff will make you a goddamned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me.” Got that?”īlain has a disgusting habit of chewing tobacco, and no one wants to join him: “Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here. I don’t care who you are back in the world, you give away our position one more time, I’ll bleed ya, real quiet. Mac (Bill Duke) is not pleased that a CIA guy named Dillon (Carl Weathers) has come along on the mission: “You’re ghostin’ us, motherfucker. His response: “I ain’t got time to bleed.” (I believe he wrote a book with that title.)ĭutch (Arnie) nails a bad guy to a wall with an enormous knife and tells him, “Stick around.”īilly (Sonny Landham), a Native American and an expert tracker, senses that they are being hunted: “There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man. One of the team members tells Blain (Ventura) that he’s bleeding. As this predator stalks Arnie’s elite rescue team through a Central American jungle, the memorable lines just keep on coming. It didn’t hurt that its cast included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura, two future governors, and one of the most iconic “villains” in the genre, a trophy hunter from another world that can render itself invisible with a cloaking device. The sci-fi/horror film, Predator (1987), made a ton of money, got great reviews, and spawned a franchise that continues right up until today, with one or two more sequels apparently in the works. ![]()
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