Out of this World… ?!

Ex Pianist (Adrien Brody) is paratrooped into an alien world, and soon finds himself in the company of the earth equivalent of Predators – cannot help quoting from Gladiator – “ferocious mercenaries and warriors from all brute nations”. They decide to work together – and soon find to their consternation that they are not on a terrestrial forest as they might have imagined. The plot thickens with predator dogs, rogue humans and traps of many descriptions. In the end human morality is called into question – and questions answered. And, as in all previous installments, there are many engaging action scenes, and some but not many survivors. With generous credits to the original throughout the movie through a vast (all?) number of “inspired” scenes and characters, this is a reasonably entertaining movie, but difficult to identify a single feature or character that was truly striking. On to a hopefully better next edition

10.5/20