Predator 2

    Predator 2
    1990

    Synopsis

    A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

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    Cast

    • Danny GloverLieutenant Mike Harrigan
    • Gary BuseyPeter Keyes
    • Rubén BladesDanny Archuleta
    • María Conchita AlonsoLeona Cantrell
    • Bill PaxtonJerry Lambert
    • Robert DaviCaptain Phil Heinemann
    • Adam BaldwinGarber
    • Kevin Peter HallThe Predator
    • Kent McCordCaptain B. Pilgrim
    • Morton Downey, Jr.Tony Pope

    Recommendations

    • 80

      Empire

      More story-led than the original with a high enough body count to make it a satisfying action movie.
    • 75

      Washington Post

      Beautifully outfitted and moodily photographed, the movie is directed by Stephen Hopkins, the Jamaican-born Australian responsible for Nightmare on Elm Street V. He keeps the pedal to the metal but never allows the explosive action to minimize his actors.
    • 60

      Los Angeles Times

      Virtually everything about the film is derivative--even the design for the eerie setting for the climactic struggle recalls the interiors of the more exotic old movie palaces--but its makers can't be accused of cutting corners. No doubt about it, those who ask only for pure action will be getting their money's worth.
    • 60

      TV Guide Magazine

      The film's energy and style are enough to recommend it. Lovers of the original should be pleased with this effort, as should most fans of the genre.
    • 50

      Chicago Sun-Times

      Since the predator is imaginary but the people who made this film are not, Predator 2 speaks sadly of their own lack of curiosity and imagination.
    • 50

      Boston Globe

      Downey's cameo is one of the few unexpected - even terrorful - moments in this entirely pedestrian sequel, which like its predecessor is almost but never quite frightening. [21 Nov 1990, p.38P]
    • 40

      Washington Post

      There is so much violence, as gangs kill gangs, or gangs kill cops, or the predator kills all of them, that it's hard to watch without the brain succumbing to self-protective numbness.
    • 40

      Austin Chronicle

      It's shoot-em-up action from start to finish, beginning at such a peak that there's hardly any room for the action to build or climax.

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