Typical 80s Blockbuster Crap

Rating: 5/10 (31 March 2003)

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS*** I can`t believe so many people love this film . Look at the premise : RAMBO meets ALIEN . What a simple wafer thin pitch that must have been . Worse than that any potential for generating nail biting tension is forgotten as the film concentrates on an all action comic book format and dialogue , it`s essential that everytime a bad guy gets killed - And seeing it`s the 1980s all bad guys are commies - big Arnie must make a wise crack like " Knock knock " . The rest of the cast aren`t served any better with lines which seems to be composed of either crude jokes or " Let`s kick some ass "

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And PREDATOR contains what must be the dumbest scene in film history . While the survivors are trying to escape the alien one of the characters makes a brave rear guard action . There he is waiting at a bridge while he awaits the approaching alien . He has a M16 assault rifle with a built in M203 40 mm just the thing you`d want to take on a monster with murder on its mind . And what does he do ? He throws it away and pulls out a knife !!!! What an idiot . I`m glad he got killed since the collective IQ of humanity must have increased with his demise
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And am I alone in thinking the directing is rather weak ? Many of the action scenes resemble those of THE A TEAM with bodies flying up in the air in slo-mo . Oh and in order to conceal the alien`s appearance much of the movie is filmed through the creature`s point of view , something that had been done to death in DOCTOR WHO by the mid 1970s
So I guess I`m alone in not liking PREDATOR . It`s by no means the worst film I`ve ever seen but it is extremely dumb and is typical of American films from the period which concentrated on style over substance in order to make money