Predator

Year:	1987
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Science Fiction, Horror
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.7 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	26 Have Seen


Director	John McTiernan
Selected Cast	Arnold Schwarzenegger as Dutch
	Carl Weathers as Dillon
	Elpidia Carrillo as Anna
	Bill Duke as Mac
	Kevin Peter Hall as The Predator
Producer	Lawrence Gordon
	Joel Silver
	John Davis
Writer	Jim Thomas
	John Thomas
Soundtrack	Alan Silvestri

On DVD & Blu-ray World

Blu-ray

Predator - 20th Century Fox - Germany (2010)

DVD

Predator - 20th Century Fox - UK (2004)

VHS

Predator - 20th Century Fox - UK (1998)

VHS

Predator - CBS / Fox - USA (1988)

DVD

Predator - 20th Century Fox - USA (1998)

DVD

Predator - 20th Century Fox - Netherlands (2002)

Multi-Format

Predator - 20th Century Fox - UK (2018)

DVD

Predator - 20th Century Fox - Australia (2002)

DVD

Predator - 20th Century Fox - USA (2005)

Multi-Format

Predator 3D - 20th Century Fox - USA (2013)

4K Blu-ray

Predator: 3-Movie Collection - 20th Century Fox - UK (2018)

DVD Box Set

Schwarzenegger: 4 Movie Collection - 20th Century Fox - UK (2008)

DVD

Alien Predator Total Destruction - 20th Century Fox - Europe (2008)

Blu-ray Box Set

Predator: 4-Movie Collection - 20th Century Fox - Australia (2018)

DVD Box Set

Alien • Predator: Total Destruction Collection - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2008)

Blu-ray Box Set

Alien / AVP / Predator: The Ultimate Annihilation: Nine Movie Collection - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2011)

Blu-ray Box Set

Predator Trilogy - 20th Century Fox - Sweden (2010)

VHS

Rovdjuret - SF - Sweden (2002)

DVD Box Set

Predator: Special Edition Collection - 20th Century Fox - UK (2005)

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Comments and Reviews


Magic Marmalade 21st Feb 2023		Rated 8/10 Another movie with a lot more to it than is given credit for... >Perhaps a spoiler in here< (A theme of both eighties music and movies, often thought to be shallow and superficial, but actually concealing a lot of stuff you didn't know was there) ...In this case, most will simply accept this as an exercise in Bravado, and Overly overt masculinity, and (as often observed by those who watch this for the first time) a pungent aroma of testosterone... As if actually celebrating it, and glorying in these elements. But actually, nothing could be further from the truth... Indeed, quite the contrary! This is, in reality, a statement about masculinity, and machismo and how these elements most often find their natural expression in big dudes with big guns, shooting the crap out of everything. Granted, there's plenty of that here, but you cannot fail to notice how exaggerated it all is - dry shaving with hunting knives through stony faced glares into the middle distance, massive, stupid and impractical weaponry all underpinning the evident sense of over-confidence this gives the soldiers here... ...Misplaced confidence. And here we come to the actual statement about these things, and what this film is really saying: You may think you are tough, and believe you're own BS, but what if something else, bigger, scarier, and both more singular in it's purpose, advanced in it's weaponry, were to appear on the scene that would render all your displays of apparent strength pitiful by comparison? And this the essence of the movie, it, through the means of this alien lizard-oid creepy-crawly, by degrees, and systematically breaks down this bravura, shatters their illusions of superiority and strength, even their sense of relative sophistication and expertise so they become no more than scared little children running around in the jungle. But it goes further than this, as it also, in the end, reduces Arnie back to a primitive, cave man like state - stripped of all civilization as a man, to a barbarous savage fighting for his life. (I wonder, if the contemplative stare in the outro is a reflection on this, and what has happened to him there in the jungle - was hem and his cohorts, nothing but a cave man, and a savage all along... just took an alien to strip away this false conceit?) It might, on reflection, have been right there in our faces all along, that this was what the movie was about, as the poster is an image of Arnie, as seen through the eyes of the alien's Infra-Red heat vision., under the massive title word: Predator. (Who exactly is the real predator here... the alien, or Man / Arnie? Arnie has, actually, the most normal character among the team, and has a more realistic attitude to what he's doing - playing it straight for once, as opposed to the usual comic violence with one-liners we were used to from him at this time as he casually dispatched multitudes... (Well, there's the odd one, but nothing that renders him cartoonish, as elsewhere) ...And it's that man John McTiernan again at the helm (Die Hard etc.), who, certainly at the time, knew what he was doing, and saying with these films, and better than anyone else back then! There is one crucial flaw in this film though for me: The opening shot, of an alien spacecraft depositing a pod with the alien in, on earth, to set the film up - this would have been so much better, going in blind, if that had been removed, so that all you knew, was that you were in the jungle with these men, on a mission, then strange things begin to happen, of unknown origin... Which would have left you as non-plussed, and anxious as the characters. But alas, you've seen the opening shot, so know about the alien... Shame. As with all these great original concepts: The Terminator, Alien, Predator etc., it seems those who then go on to make sequels, and franchises out of them, they only tune into the superficial elements of what the movie, at it's heart, is, and cannot understand what it is that actually made these films so powerful in the first instance, and these are the very elements that seem to get left behind, for though they didn't know it, they were what made them work, and why the newer ones do not. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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