Real Talk: This TV movie was made by Paramount Pictures and the best they went with is Discount Predator. I guess 2001 was a slow year for Paramount.
Miss: Gees even the opening credit music is ripping off Predator with a pinch of Alien.
Miss: *A group of soldiers/marines shooting in all directions as the higher ranks watch on TV monitors doing absolutely nothing.* Movie shamelessly rips off Aliens, they even have that heart monitor screen from Aliens.
Hit: At least the main character Peter Doyle has a backstory that doesn't render him as Discount Dutch.
Real Talk: In Lt. Borack's defense if a Death Adder crawl up my pants I'd piss myself too and definitely shit myself while I'm at it.
Miss: *A team of Special Forces have to travel through rebel territory.* Now why does that sound familiar?
Miss: *Surviving Special Forces member running away as shown in some alien POV shot.* Now why does that look familiar?
Hit: Although to be fair at least the movie doesn't rip off the Predator's Infrared Vision.
Real Talk: Two of Doyle's men are brothers; one of which is married. It would be a real shame if both of these brothers die in this movie.
Miss: Tyler is just Discount Billy.
Hit: Well at least they'll arriving to their mission on a boat rather than lazily ripping off the helicopter scene from Predator.
Miss: *The team finds the dead remains of the previous Special Forces and thinks that the rebels did it.* Seems so familiar to me for some reason.
Miss: Movie they're just searching an empty village, tone down the exciting music.
Miss: Again with the music ripping off Predator. Said what you want how RoboWar is a Predator ripoff but at least the movie has it own soundtrack.
Miss: *The team finds a villager hiding under the floor.* Barry: "This guy doesn't have any legs left, Lieutenant. There's a lot of blood down there." Oh yes because why bother showing when you can just describe the situation of this poor man. I guess they wanted to keep the movie PG or they didn't have the budget for gore effects.
Miss: *Movie fades to black into the next scene.* Oh that's right this is a TV movie they suppose to fade to black. Even though I'm watching this movie online which would make fading to black on a scene rather pointless.
Miss: We get a glimpse of this film's "Predator"; black leather pants, plastic looking body armor, knock off Predator mask and Discount Darth Vader breathing. You can just smell the low budget in the costume department.
Miss: And of course there be a "shooting wildly into the jungle" scene, wouldn't be a Predator ripoff if there wasn't one.
Miss: And why the hell are they shooting in slow motion?
Real Talk: *Turns out they shot up a pig.* I'm surprised none of them didn't say one of these lines. "Jesus...you killed a pig." "Hey you think you could've found something bigger?"
Miss: Borack: "We're gonna bigger guns...." Oh great...a Godzilla 1998 reference.
Miss: "Liaison knows more than what they're letting on" cliche.
Hit: Usually in movies like this there's always some government cover-up. But here it's a rogue military general who's been hiding this secret facility from the government. So that's a step up.
Miss: Earlier Borack was saved by Discount Predator only to die anyway later near the end of the movie. This guy might as well been wearing a red shirt through the whole movie.
Real Talk: And I don't know what Doyle's complaining about, Borack wasn't sticking close to him.
Real Talk: So the other creatures were just bugs meant to probe for life sustaining atmosphere while Discount Predator was sent to terminate them due to them being hostile. I'm sure there's a Discount Alien vs Predator Requiem somewhere but that movie came out in 2007. So precursor Alien vs Predator Requiem?
