Predator (1987)

• Year: 1987
• Released: 12 Jun 1987
• Country: United States, Mexico
• Adwords: Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 6 nominations total
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/Predator
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/predator
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English, Spanish, Russian
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror
• Runtime: 107 min
• Writer: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
• Director: John McTiernan
• Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
• Keywords: alien, survival, creature, alien invasion, stalking,

	7.8/10
	45/100
	80% – Critics
	87% – Audience

Predator Storyline

As an unidentified interstellar spacecraft penetrates the Earth’s atmosphere, landing somewhere on the tangled jungle of Central America, the battle-hardened leader of an elite military team, Major Alan “Dutch” Schaefer, and his hand-picked men begin to deploy to the region. Entrusted with locating a cabinet minister and eliminating the area’s scattered guerrilla pockets, before long, this routine rescue mission turns into a bloodbath, as macabre findings of ritualistically mutilated bodies can only mean one thing: someone, or better yet, something, is hunting them down for sport. Now, outgunned, and above all, outmatched, Dutch must put his extensive combat experience to good use, and summon up the strength to make a last stand against the pitiless, highly advanced extraterrestrial hunter. But, the major’s primitive weaponry is no match for the humanoid creature’s state-of-the-art armament. Is there an escape from the wrath of the Predator?

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Predator Movie Reviews

Welcome to the jungle, baby

Consider that so many of the roles that Arnold Schwarzenegger takes on are so similar, including Predator, and yet this film is so much better than most of the others. I enjoy watching his movies just because he’s such a watch-able guy, even in his bad movies (which are many), but I think the thing that really makes Predator stand out is its simplicity. The movie starts, the guys get dropped in the jungle, lots of blood and carnage flies across the screen, and the movie simply ends. No romance, no complex back story, no soldier struggling with problems in his past or even trauma caused by the horrible things he experiences during the movie. This is one of the things that made First Blood so good. It may turn out to be a movie about a lot of muscle-bound meatheads in the woods, but it doesn’t insult the audience or try to apply complexity to a story that can’t support it.

Interestingly, the movie features two eventual governors. Jesse Ventura even wrote a book which was released while he was the governor of Minnesota and he used his favorite line in this movie as the title. And the book’s actually pretty interesting; there are some funny stories in it about things that went on while they were filming this movie. Arnold, on the other hand, is actually (and thankfully) given a relatively small amount of stupid one-liners, which are an idiotic byproduct of hard action movies that I’ve never really understood the necessity for. They don’t reveal anything about the characters who say them, they don’t add to the story or further the plot, and with rare exceptions, they’re not funny. But I guess comic relief has to come from somewhere, and since complexity is not a requisite for movies like this, I can’t really expect a lot of thought being put into the comedic content either.

I watched Predator having never seen it from beginning to end and having just re-watched the original Alien. I am currently in the process of re-watching both series’, for obvious reasons. One thing that I notice about both of them is the way they take their time in introducing the enemies which, in both films, are aliens. Predator doesn’t waste much time dwelling on the origin of the alien, we pretty much assume it came from a space ship that flashed across the screen at the opening of the movie. Alien, on the other hand, went into remarkable detail about where its alien came from. What Predator does do, very effectively, I think, is that it has the guys fighting some very human enemies, which allows the movie to later take its sweet time in having them realize that the new enemy is not human at all. This is also, incidentally, weakly rehashed in the sequel, using the secrecy of this mission and team as an excuse to have more guys who don’t know what’s going on.

The death scenes are actually pretty tasteful, given the genre. They are just gory enough to illustrate the violence of the enemy without being gratuitous. Just enough is shown to show how vicious the alien is, and there are some strange things done to and with the bodies that make you wonder about the alien’s intentions or needs. The first deaths suggest vengeance if not some sort of ritual, but later ones suggest that the alien may be feeding off of his (or her) victims. Oddly enough, it is not until the awful Predator 2 that we learn that it kills for sport.

Yes, the movie occasionally gets embarrassingly macho, but the skill with which it is put together far overshadows any tough-guy goofiness. Consider, for example, the ease with which the movie switches from showing the guys hunting the alien to their realization that they are the ones being hunted. In some cases, this transition takes place during a single shot and with virtually no movement in the shot at all except a change in someone’s expression. It is truly a fight between a group of predators, which we understand because they are human like us, and a single predator whose powers and weaknesses are unknown. It’s not Oscar material, needless to say, but it’s a great action movie in part because it already knows that.

It Hunts For Pleasure, It Kills For Sport……………….

“Predator” is a genuine Classic. Action, Horror, Sci-Fi it’s all there. Lets see for starters we have Arnold Schwarzenegger, on top form riding to the peak of his action status, leading a team of tough Commandos. Made up of a great cast including Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura and Bill Duke. They’re on a mission to rescue Hostages from Gorilla forces but are double crossed by the C.I.A, stop there and you already have a great action movie.

But oh no, this film also has an Intergalactic Alien Big Game hunter equipped with plasma cannons, Stealth Invisibility and Thermal Vision. It would be so easy to imagine this film going nowhere if it where to have fallen into the wrong hands. You could really imagine a plot of an Alien hunting Commandos in the jungle coming off a bit lame but no, Fox thankfully had faith and McTierman had a vision. Fox’s faith may have been down to there two previous unexpected big hits “Aliens” and “Commando” which you could possibly say this film is a hybrid of.

Film also benefits from being made in that 80s early 90s era where your action film could take its self seriously yet still not too seriously. One minute we see a fairly realistic use of of weapons and tactics the next Arnie throws a truck down a hill equipped with C4 and Jesse Ventura pulls out his M-134 Mini Gun and shreds some Gorillas.

The Predator it’s self is a classic design, thanks to the genius Stan Winston, and in my opinion never looked better than in this movie. It looked slightly fake in Pred 2(Not a bad film too) and don’t get me started on the travesty that is AvP. It could have been a different story if they had stuck to the big rubber turtle they had shot scenes with thank god Arnold himself suggested Winston.

I won’t spoil the plot for anyone who’s not yet seen it I just urge you to see this movie.

An 80s classic

As a child, I loved Predator. I thought it was fun, likable and efficient above other things. I revisited it again some time ago again, and was waiting for the opportunity to say that it has quickly become a favourite of mine. As far as John McTiernan’s movies go, I think Die Hard is his best movie but Predator is for me definitely up there with his best. It is everything I thought it to be as a child and more.

The action is exhilarating and kept at a snappy pace with enough suspense to thrill, while the special effects are truly excellent, they are memorable, look great and enhance rather than distract. The characterisation is also good, the story is gripping, Alan Silvestri’s score is terrific, the pace is snappy, McTiernan’s direction is efficient and the dialogue is quotable. The acting I have no problems with either, Arnold Schwarznegger gives one of his most charismatic, efficient and likable performances here.

Overall, a great film and a classic of its decade. It may be a little too long perhaps, but it is great fun and works on all levels. 9/10 Bethany Cox