Predator

Name: Predator
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Released: June 12, 1987
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 45
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall

1987

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Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 12, 1987 | R

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)

Director: John McTiernan

Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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Neil Smith

Directed by John McTiernan, it’s an ’80s classic full of still-thrilling action, quotable one-liners (“Get to the chopper!” “Stick around!”) and sly digs at Uncle Sam’s penchant for unwinnable jungle wars. Read full review

Duane Byrge

Structurally, Predator is a classic behind-enemy-lines/buddy movies. Nothing much new, just well done. Read full review

Roger Ebert

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. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

A slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin-plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects. Read full review

Dave Kehr

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]

Peter Stack

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]

Michael Wilmington

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. Read full review

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Dalek

Jun 9, 2012

Are the critics smoking something over there? It may not have the best script in the world but this was an entertaining movie, and great effects on the predator.

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Capitan_Cesar

Oct 26, 2019

La perfeccion hecha película, la mejor de la saga y una de las mejores peliculas de todos los tiempos

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PredatorX

Aug 22, 2018

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Behold!!! what the original expendables should have been. when you think about it, The Expendables was basically the same thing when you get down to the basic skeleton. a bunch of musclebound action stars led by Arnie fighting a threat none of them could be prepared for. the only difference is after all the fighting and ass kicking the team realizes there is a bigger threat out there and one by one they get picked off by an alien hunter with camouflage capabilities and weapons nobody could believe. Arnold ends up defeating it but by surprise he didn't kill it in the end, the predator kills itself when it saw no other way to win. this movie is so awesome that it makes me wish they left it alone and didn't make many sequels, having said that I am looking forward to The Predator this year which i will review after i see it.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

martinruiz

Feb 21, 2018

Whats't wrong with matacritc giving bad rating in here? 42? are you negatie reviewers kiding me? this movie is near to a classic masterpiece, people always seems to not appreciate the work they put into this film, Stan Winston, John Mctiernan and Kevin Peter Hall did a great job in bringingWhats't wrong with matacritc giving bad rating in here? 42? are you negatie reviewers kiding me? this movie is near to a classic masterpiece, people always seems to not appreciate the work they put into this film, Stan Winston, John Mctiernan and Kevin Peter Hall did a great job in bringing to life to one of the most iconic aliens on the big screen, not only that but they also had one of the most manliest badass team ever with some of the most memorable quotes of all time, and also the jokes worked really good on this film than the sequels or even modern action films that tries hard to have some comedy on it, and the score is well done by Alan Silvestri, the ending could've been better in my opinion but everything else was amazing. Without debut this is one of my fav films of all time. 9.2/10… Expand

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gamerx120

Mar 19, 2017

Really great effects, acting, action, just the ending could be better, but it really doesn't matter, I really enjoy this film, i'm big fan of this alien.

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

AlistairV.

Apr 28, 2010

A magnificent exercise in sci-fi horror, only disliked by those who do not understand it. The cinematography is beautiful, and Schwarzenegger delivers a Schwarzenegger-ish performance, which is good for an action movie. It's not meant to be deep, or thought provoking, it's meant A magnificent exercise in sci-fi horror, only disliked by those who do not understand it. The cinematography is beautiful, and Schwarzenegger delivers a Schwarzenegger-ish performance, which is good for an action movie. It's not meant to be deep, or thought provoking, it's meant to be a good, scary action sci-fi endeavor. And it succeeds on all counts.… Expand

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JHill

Dec 20, 2009

Good special effects; otherwise cartoonish and boring.

2 of 21 users found this helpful

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