renofhate Ah, 1987's sci-fi action, Predator, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Shane Black, Jesse Ventura and several others as a team of soldiers who one by one become the prey of an alien hunter. Solid from start to finish with some fine performances, a ton of blood and guts, action galore and its theme score really adds to the overall brutal, jungle atmosphere of the movie. It's great because not only is this one of my favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger films (if not my favourite), but it's one of my favourite films of all time.The film sees the elite paramilitary explore somewhere in Central America, they're assigned by the CIA to rescue hostages who are held by guerillas. Little does the team know that someone is watching over them, camouflaged. As the film progresses, it sees the extra-terrestrial warrior kill them off one by one. The first kill is Hawkins, whose death scene comes quick and unexpectedly. Toward the end of the film, there's only one male character remaining, as Anna, a woman who's taken in by the team, ran off to find the "Chopper", as Dutch (Schwarzenegger) says earlier. It comes down to Dutch vs the alien warrior. Dutch realises that despite its advanced capabilities, the warrior can't see through mud, even with its powerful heat vision. It uses Infrared to see and wears a mask, has a shoulder cannon, a sphere and a double blade attached to its wrist (I'll delve more into the Predator weapon terminology some other time). Dutch, to his advantage whilst covered in mud, sets up traps to slowly but surely defeat or even wound the creature. After a series of wins by Dutch, a major downfall occurs after Dutch lands in a lake which then clears his mud. Before he's able to get up, the hunter captures him. A few seconds pass before it detaches some of its now-obsolete and unusable weaponry and unmasks. This is where the tables completely turn, and the Predator gets the upper-hand, beating Dutch viciously in a man-to-man like fist fight. Just before it seems as if Dutch hasn't got anything left, having crawled into a small space which has a trap with it, he taunts the warrior to come and kill him, knowing if he does he'll die at the hands of his trap. The Predator, unbeknownst to his trap and plan at first, catches on and decides to go the other way. Just when you think Dutch has been outsmarted, he quickly enables another trap which knocks the Predator down. After Dutch gets a good up-close look at the warrior in its most wounded form thus far, asking the creature what it is, he realises that the Predator has enabled a detonation, self-destruction bomb which ultimately kills him, almost catching Dutch in the process. He merely escapes, bloodily and broken.With some of the best score from any movie I've seen, with truly-brilliant delivered performances, laughs, an abundance of action and gore, an amazing antagonist, a strong plot, and with a satisfying ending, plus so much more, it's no wonder as to why this is an all-time favourite. It's amazing all-round. And to this day, it remains the best of the entire series. I love it.10/10.

kumar_delish The writer cook wonderful story to add proper ingredients to give hot action The fight between strong alien and tactical human our hero Arnold First of all that's not a susidical mission when team of elite commandos to under the supervision of Arnold to help his friend to complete the mission but unfortunately the mission changes while solders are killed brutally and hanged skined alive no human can do such a horrible things after loosing so of the friends in the mission finally they try to caught a alien alive but utterly it lead to disappointment the can't trap it. It kill all team only Arnold alive but his tatical and intelligent move lead finally kill the Alien The last nuclear blast is super alien simply smile himself and try to kill the hero also but he escaped Alien costumes are superb, laser targeting my fave part and thermal sensors to detect people and animals Arnold and his friend both look like commands nice costumes and jungle Super action movie to watch.....

Petia Vladimirova One of the greatest alien movies ever made. The idea itself of a hunter killing for pride and manhood is genius, but I have to say the movie is not very autentic. Typical "who will survive at the end" american action with musscle men and a lot of guns. For it's time it is great, I was six when I watched it and I was like: "Noo, how could he kill the Predator, I liked him!" Do you really think if in reality grown men with power and obviously no problem of killing other men were found a helpless girl, at the forest, far from eyes and judgement, they should not rape her and probably kill her? And one more thing, it was pretty not realistic about shining eyes of the Predator, who ever created that? Being invisible - fine, non waterproof armor - fine, shining eyes? What for? How? Watever, I am waiting the next Predator movie and I hope they won't mess it up.

TyJustice I read on the IMDb trivia that Arnold was originally wary of the original script that featured just him facing off against the Predator, and thank goodness for the rewrite. All of the supporting characters compliment the plot near perfectly, and they all have simple, easy to follow character traits and motivations that make for easy investment without taking away from our lead - Dutch, played by Arnold. The setting of the film is fun, believable and engaging. It certainly brings the jungle alive and pulls you into the story. The score plays a big part in the storytelling, and does a phenomenal job at creating the mood and atmosphere for the scenes that it takes place in. The sound design is what I would personally compliment the most, as I do not believe the film would be the same without the way the jungle sounded so authentic, the effects of all the different types of gunfire used, and not to mention the iconic sounds that brought the Predator to life. A seamless film with little to no dull moments, would be the perfect addition to anyone's collection for all sorts of occasions.