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Adrien Brody’s on the menu. Adrien Brody and Alice Braga in “Predators” Photo: 20th Century Fox The strapping beastie of the “Predator” franchise remains pretty much the same after 23 years — dread of lock, moist of mandible. It’s the humans in his life who seem to have devolved. In the first film, his chief antagonist was played by that pre-gubernatorial muscle-mountain, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Now, in “Predators,” the crafty alien faces off against the willowy Adrien Brody — not an opponent to strike dread in the heart (or whatever) of any self-respecting behemoth, you’d think. “Predators” is a B movie that knows its job, and does it. Which means, among other things, that making sense is not on its to-do list. The picture opens with a group of people falling from the sky into a jungle. What are they doing here? None of them knows. One minute each of them was sleeping, the next they were plummeting through the clouds. That’s that. Where are they? The group’s lone woman, Isabelle (Alice Braga), looks around suspiciously. “I’ve never seen this jungle,” she says. “And I’ve seen most.” Isabelle hails from Guatemala, where she no doubt saw quite a bit of jungle, but has lately been employed as a sniper by the Israeli Defense Force, whose missions are not often thought to be jungle-related. But whatever. The movie germinated from an unproduced 1994 script by pulp fan Robert Rodriguez (one of the producers here), which was more recently refined by Alex Litvak and Michael Finch. Faced with the challenge of revitalizing a creature that has already been the subject of four previous films (if you count two trans-franchise dalliances with the slobbery Alien), they and director Nimr