Synopsis
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
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Cast
- Arnold SchwarzeneggerMajor Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
- Carl WeathersAl Dillon
- Elpidia CarrilloAnna Gonsalves
- Jesse VenturaBlain Cooper
- Sonny LandhamBilly Sole
- Bill DukeMac Eliot
- Richard ChavesJorge "Poncho" Ramirez
- R. G. ArmstrongMajor General Homer Phillips
- Shane BlackRick Hawkins
- Kevin Peter HallPredator / Helicopter Pilot
Recommendations
- 75
Chicago Sun-Times
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. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
It's got thrills and chills and one of the most elegantly conceived monsters in the history of movies. - 70
TV Guide Magazine
Crisply stylish and suspenseful, making brilliant use of optical special effects, Predator is one of Schwarzenegger's best. - 50
Chicago Tribune
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] - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
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] - 50
Variety
A slightly above-average actioner that tries to compensate for tissue-thin-plot with ever-more-grisly death sequences and impressive special effects. - 40
Chicago Reader
Despite the off-rhythm styling and suggestions of primeval menace, there's really not much going on here. - 30
The New York Times
Alternately grisly and dull, with few surprises.
