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36 out of 100

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8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 83 Ratings

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  • Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
  • Summary: Schaefer (Schwarzenegger) and his elite military unit are recruited to rescue hostages held by guerrillas in the Latin American jungle. But once there, they encounter an enemy more deadly than any on earth! (20th Century Fox)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 4 out of 11
  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    Moves at a breakneck pace, it has strong and simple characterizations, it has good location photography and terrific special effects, and it supplies what it claims to supply: an effective action movie.
  2. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    50
    McTiernan, regrettably, seems more interested in spectacle than suspense, and the attack sequences are filmed for splashy visual impact. And an apocalyptic finale that raises the antiwar message to the nuclear level is more than McTiernan's metaphor can bear. [12 June 1987, Friday, p.J]
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  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Elvis Mitchell
    30
    Alternately grisly and dull, with few surprises. [12 June 1987, p.C6]
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 38
  3. Negative: 1 out of 38
  1. grandpajoe6191
    8
    "Predator" is a good action blockbuster movie; it succeeds to consistently maintain its tension and coolly blows it off in the end with Arnold Schwarzenegger.… Expand
    • 5 of 5 users said yes
  2. amethysts
    5
    I really could not understand why voters have given this movie a good rating. the movie does not even come close to a good script.it is just a piece of awfully directed scrap. even the plot is not that thrilling. the point of a action movie is to keep the screenplay intact and that is not what the movie has achieved.… Expand
    • 0 of 1 users said yes
  3. JHill
    2
    Good special effects; otherwise cartoonish and boring.
    • 0 of 5 users said yes

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