A group of seven ultimate military badasses are sent into an unspecified South
American jungle to rescue a foreign cabinet minister from a terrorist camp.
Things don’t go as planned.
The best way to watch PREDATOR for the very first time would be to erase
your memory and time-travel back to the late 1980’s as a 12-year-old boy. I
remember watching it back then around that age and it blew my lil’ simpleton
mind! A bunch of large badass super soldiers getting their asses kicked out it
the deep jungle, lots of cool guns and large knives, wicked Predator-vision that
looked like nothing I’d ever seen before, explosions, the word
“motherfucker”, getting to the chopper. It’s was awesome! Nowadays, the
whole thing is probably pretty tame (to new viewers) and the entire legacy of
the film shit on by not just one or two lame additions to the series, but (as of
8/2022) six! I’m not even sure how it’s humanly possible to take a great
movie with a cool, original story and then turn in 6 weak ass sequels, prequel
and spin-offs, but they did. You'd think at some point they would
accidentally make a good movie...but nope.
Anyway, I’m rambling. The original Predator film is dated, but still badass and
totally worth checking out even today. At least for fans of 1980’s action / sci
fi.
Minor spoiler...I love the happy character end credit shots, but I really wish
they had added one for the Predator himself. And a happy group shot with the
Predator and the soldiers all hugging would have been hilarious.
Part 2 – Predator 2 (1990)
Part 3 – Predators (2010)
Part 4 – The Predator (2018)
Prequel - Prey (2022)
Alien crossover 1 - Alien vs. Predator (2004)
Alien crossover 2 - Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)