*****EXPLOSIVE SPOILERS!***** In the 1980s and 1990s, the action movie had evolved (or devolved) into expensive, overwrought, testosterone-soaked chunks of cinematic product. Producers like Joel Silver, Michael Bay, Jerry Bruckheimer, et al, made their fortunes creating over-the-top police fantasies where rogue cops packing semiautomatic heat set right all the world’s wrongs in a couple of…
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Hulu’s “Prey” (2022) is worth pursuing…
*****SAVAGE SPOILERS!***** “Predator” (1987) Couple of things. First, I’m not a huge fan of the “Predator” movies. I enjoyed the first film well enough, and I own it on DVD, but its sequels and offshoots are a textbook case of diminishing returns, with each new entry feeling increasingly repetitive, and too often trotting out the…