Predator (9/10)

[Adidas03]

Predator (9/10)
Produced by: Joel Silver, Lawrence Gordon and John Davis
Directed by: John McTiernan
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenneger, Carl Weathers and Bill Duke
Running time: 107 minutes (Rated R)

Plot: In a remote area of the South American jungle, a team of military commandos are ordered to complete a rescue mission to save hostages that are in guerilla control. While searching for the hostages the commandos start to get picked off one by one by an alien, that has the ability of staying invisible. The secret operation takes a sudden and unusual turn, where anything goes just to stay alive.

*** minor spoilers below ***
Review: "Rambo" meets "Alien"in this sci fi/action thriller. I thought the overall plot of "Predator" was great and the cast does a good job in what they are asked to do. Arnold Schwarzenneger is Major Dutch, the leader of the group of commandos and I think this performance is one of his best. Arnold still has the accent but he can't help it, he tries and I give him credit because I could buy into his character. Carl Weathers plays a CIA agent named Dillon rather well, he is assigned to work with the team of soldiers to help rescue the hostages. The deadly alien (the Predator) is played by Kevin Peter Hall, who plays the creature sent down from outerspace quite good. Originally Jean-Claude Van Damme was suppose to have this role but he quit 2 days after learning he would be an uncredited special effect, there are rumors that Van Damme did do some of the action scenes but I think that is balonie. Other cast members in this film are Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves and Elpidia Carrillo, who all give quality performances in my opinion. The final battle that occurs between Arnold and the Predator is simply epic and very entertaining. "Predator" is easily one of the best sci fi/action flicks of the last 20 years.

[ilovemovies]

Predator was a decent and entertaining movie but was by no means a great movie. I think you overrated the movie quite a bit. Still cool specail effects and some exciting action sequences.
grade: B
rating: ***
7/10

[Adidas03]

Overrating Predator? No way, most big sci-fi/action fans rate this movie high all the time. It is great when you consider the year they created this movie.

[Ender]

Predator was one of those movies that defined the sci-fi genre for me. A just plain cool flick, one of the best and funnest alien movies ever made. Too bad the sequel is a huge pile of rancid shit, but that's the way it goes.
7/10.

[The Professional]

I just watched it. it was a good action movie, like alien in the jungle. 8/10

[Alien]

Plus it's cewl seeing one badass alien kicking the shiat out of the Military dudes. This one of those films Arnie gets his ass kicked BIG TIME!!! Plus I loved the ending when you seen him standing there. Smoke blowing and Arnie covered in dirt and blood, pretty weird how the Predator did all that and not Arnie....VERY weird.

This film ranks up there as one of my favs

[XCoRyX]

I enjoy this movie and loved the special effects and the predator himself was awesome looking,very scary...i unlike many think the sequel was better...but that doesnt make this bad,but the only bad thing for me is if i watch it again i wont finish it as its played out..

5/10

[Philip Marlowe]

Predator
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There's something out there waiting for us, and it ain't no man. We're all gonna die.

Action Mystery
The Story is simple a Special Unit takes a mission to recover people that went down with a helicopter somewhere in the jungle. Once dropped off there's no turning back. they find the place were the helicopter was shot down certain things don't add up, for one a heatseeker was used to nock down the helicopter which doesn't make sense considering the weaponry the gurrilla's are suppost to have. another thing there's no tracks from any men telling of an ambush plus they find three men that have been skined to the flesh.

So they head off to were the captive men have been taken there they realize that there are no surviors so they proceed to blow-up & Destory the every loving sh!t out of everything that moves or breaths. Knowing they have to get out they hit the bushes and this atlasted brings us to the Cat-a-Mouse game that slowly dissolves the number in the Unit while there trying to work out who could be doing it.
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Blain: Bunch of slack-jawed faggots around here! This stuff will make you a god damnned sexual Tyrannosaurus, just like me!

Aside from the obvious fact that the Predator is one of the greatest action movie every made it's just as much apart of the Sci-Fi Genre as it is the Action Genre. Some of the extreme lenghts it goes to make the audience turn away at the gore it make you more wanting to look and find out what this think is that's going around hunting man in the thick forest of the jungle.

The Dancing Helicopters

The helicopter ride into the depths of the jungle acts as a plot device and character set-up. The Plot device part of it is were you know that some of these guys are not coming out of this thing alive, the character set-up part shows you the inner workings of the team and what type of men your dealing with wacko's ,crazies ,loose canons and many other words could be used to discribe these men.

The Team

Dutch - You realize fast that he is the most serious of the unit. He has no time for fooling around once givin is mission and objectives it all straight faced do the job right. He's the oil in the engine without it it ain't movin nowheres.

Dillion - The outsider which makes his character the hardest to like. Goes through most of the movie being the most unliked but just when you start to feel comfortable with his placing in the unit it's too late. Most of the time he's either trying to show-up the other or trying to convince them that he's as good or better for Dutch's team.

Blain - The grizzly bear tobaco crew hard-@ss of the men that doesn't have time to bleed amoungst mean other think such as making friends or liking people in general. He only has one friend true friend which is Mac.

Mac - You can see him working out everything in his head Situations, Looks, Words, Reactions everything But these things soon strat to dissolve into madness and his failure to interact with the group for the simplest thing becomes evident.

Billy - Tuff man to talk too, communication skills are the pits. but I also consider him to be one of the smartest in the team his tracking is great and his sense of his surroundings is phenomenal. Billy seems to have more than a few things going around in his mind but never seems to share them with the rest. Sometimes he's the most sane at times other times I think he the most insane of them.

Hawkins - The joker, that takes the most serious of thing lightly once he realizes something is quite wrong it's all too late for him. I dig his jokes and he was the comic relief for the movie and he was used to good use.

Puncho - always adding a few words of wisdom trying to fit some where within the team in some scenes he comes in at the end other times in the middle of what's going on. He's the pefect middle man you could say.

Director - Mctiernan has greatly improved the genre with such greats as The Predator, The Hunt for the Red October and Die Hard he has also done stuff that didn't effect it one bit. He brings a unconventional editing style and seems to have his shoot struture to a tee he also keeps the level of humdity & claustropbia at a high stand point throught-out.

Crew - Alan Silvestri has his score down with some very entusastic parts espically the Jungle Trak, Preparations, The Chase and the main title all are great & inspirational to listen too. Donald McAlpine really did a nice job. Great use of the slow pan to set-up three shot in one with no edits and it just amazing considering what this guy did in the type of extremes he was dealing with. The Editing was one of the most intresting things about the movie that owes a lot to Mctiernan way of filming.

[This message has been edited by Philip Marlowe (edited 01-28-2002).]

[Fergus]

Sweet Review Philip. How long did that take you?

I've seen Predator once all the way through, and a few other times on TV in segments. I saw the end before I actually viewed the entire film. But, it is a suspenseful, and fun SCI-FI action movie. The guys were all sleazebags, but what the heck, I liked the movie and it gets a:

**** out of five

from me.

[Philip Marlowe]

Hey thanks fergus it didn't take that long about 2 hrs I don't know, would you consider that long plus a lot of think before actually putting the pen to the paper.

have you seen the sequel to this one it's not so bad considering how most sequels usually end up it's about a C+ but some people like it more than the original I say whatever suits there fancy but the original is way better in my book.

I think with all the other movies made around the time this one came out and considering it's from the director that brought use Die Hard it represnts itself pretty good on every level and too me is as good or better than Die Hard but that just me.


Cheers

[Ghostface 2000]

Good movie acting was done well and i liked the special effects.
Definatly worth seeing 8/10

[Kastman]

i love this movie.i have seen it about 5 times or more.
id give it 8.5/10

[blackbear]

This may not be one of the best movies ever made but for mindless action that should not be taken to seriously I thought it was great flick. It is one of those movies you can easily watch time and time again. Also the one-liners in the movie, though corny, are fun to hear again and again. For shear entertainment 8 out of 10