Predato
A team of commandos on a mission in a Central American jungle find themselves hunted by an extra-terrestrial warrior.
Director:
John McTiernanWriters:
Jim Thomas, John ThomasStars:
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall | See full cast and crew »Storyline
A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major
"Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered in to assist CIA man, George Dillon, on a
rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over
remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his
team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This
deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they
find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this
world. Written by
Laygz
User Reviews
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.
