Bart Layton's previous, and superior film, "The Imposter", was a documentary acting like a movie, and it worked brilliantly. "American Animals" was a movie acting like a documentary, and this is where it fell down.

Great cinematography, Evan Peters and Blake Jenner were good, but I never felt any emotional stakes, we had glimpses at troubled home lives that could have been dramatically satisfying but are glossed over, and the leads have virtually no chemistry. The single biggest mistake was…

I still remember literally negotiating with my parents to let me buy Predator on DVD when I was a kid, and it's still one of my favourite movies. The franchise quality has been far more consistent than that of "Alien" - Predator 2 and Predators are great fun, but nowhere on the level of the original, or the first two "Alien" movies. I went into this expecting a fun, diverting piece of entertainment, and it delivered. However, considering this is…