Predator
After our getting through the first three Alien movies and Romulus, E and I dipped our toes into what kicked off the Predator series for another Spooktober entry, though as we found out, Predator really just turned out to be a dumb 80’s action romp rather than clever horror. Neither of us had ever seen it, but as big fans of Terminator, and given the franchise’s notoriety, we had set our sights a little higher than what this film produced. The concept is really unique, the Predator alien is ingeniously designed, but the choice to make this the baddest commandos in the world kicking butt in jungle and hunted by a superior creature maybe could have worked better had not spent so much time with the baddest commandos in the world just blowing stuff up for a majority of the movie. MILD SPOILER AHEAD: The most compelling part of the whole movie was the ending, where Arnold 1v1s Predator, but becomes totally vulnerable to this clearly better than him enemy. In fact, his acting in that last act compared to the rest of the movie is night and day. There’s a lot of roll your eye moments, as in any dumb action flick, and if you’re into that, there’s plenty to love. If you’ve never seen it, I’d say this is pretty skippable, and you can skip straight to the clearly superior film, Alien vs. Predator.
-Z
