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36 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 4 out of 11
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  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. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Jay Scott
    75
    It's got thrills and chills and one of the most elegantly conceived monsters in the history of movies.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Staff (Non Credited)
    70
    Crisply stylish and suspenseful, making brilliant use of optical special effects, Predator is one of Schwarzenegger's best.
  4. 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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  5. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Peter Stack
    50
    The movie, a rather pointless thing when you get down to it, has little of the provocative intelligence that was found in "Terminator." But at least it's self-propelling in terms of suspense and cheap thrills. [12 June 1987, Daily Datebook, p.78]
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  6. Variety
    Reviewed by: Staff (Not Credited)
    50
    A slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin-plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects.
  7. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Pat Graham
    40
    Despite the off-rhythm styling and suggestions of primeval menace, there's really not much going on here.
  8. 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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  9. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Rita Kempley
    30
    Frankly, scarier critters have checked into Roach Motels. [13 June 1987, Style, g1]
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  10. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    12
    Arnold Schwarzenegger fights an outer-space monster in a third-world jungle. The monster never has a chance. Neither does the jungle. Neither does the audience. [19 June 1987, Arts & Leisure, p.23]
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  11. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    10
    It's arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie. There's no need to do a Mad magazine movie parody of this; it's already on the screen. [12 June 1987, Calendar, p.6-6]
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8.5 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 89 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 34 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 40
  3. Negative: 1 out of 40
  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.… Full Review »
  2. jimm.
    10
    The greatest movie ever
  3. MichaelK
    8
    A score of 36? it's not high cinema but COME ON! one of the best action movies ever.
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