Prey On It.

Rating: 9/10 (30 June 2015)

Predator (1987): Dir: John McTiernan / Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weather, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham: Science fiction thriller about who really is the hunter and who really is the hunted. Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Dutch Schaefer who leads a special unit into a jungle to perform a rescue only to discover that the enemy soldiers are the least of their worries. They find victims hanging in trees skinned and an unseen force seems to be picking them off one by one. While most of the characters are one dimensional director John McTiernan cranks the tension when this unseen presence seems to be tracking them. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads the cast and when it is learned that some sort of alien warrior is the enemy, they make a failed attempt to trap it. Riveting third act has Schwarzenegger masked in mud for concealing and combating a game of cat and mouse showdown where the hulking creature is revealed. The only other remotely broad role is Elpidia Carrillo as a female hostage they take during an invasion whom becomes the one person who fears what they're up against. Effective cast include Carl Weather as a former friend of Schwarzenegger's, and Sonny Landham as a tracker. Easily compared to Alien and both are intelligent films involving humanity in a lock for survival against an unknown force that demonstrate what we've only glimpsed on wildlife programs. Score: 9 / 10