Great Action/Thriller... but not without its flaws.

Rating: 8/10 (25 October 2016)

To be honest, I didn't grow up with this movie. Heck, I've only watched it once, with catching parts of it on TV afterwards, but I love this movie. All the cheese of a Schwarzenegger, but not too much to make it not watchable. This is one of the only stalker-type movies that I feel like actually includes some logic in it. I was so tired of movies that include a group of people who are being followed, and it takes them the entire film to realize that they're being stalked. But not here, these are a group of trained military personnel who know what they're doing. So they quickly figure out what's going on and try to protect themselves. But that doesn't stop the villain, the alien Predator, to hunt the team down. This movie starts with Arnold being dropped off in the jungle where he meets the rest of his team. They are there on a search and rescue mission that soon goes terribly wrong. One by one, they are slowly hunted for sport by the mysterious alien. The last survivor, obviously being Schwarzenegger, now has to be the one who does the hunting. He does so in such a memorable way- with the reveal of the Predator's face as he tries to take his life as well as Arnold's that ends up in a big, 80's movie explosion. I had little problems with this movie, really just how the movie has aged. One of the obvious things is the dialogue, yeah it's a bit dated, but there's still many memorable lines to recall. Another problem I had was one scene that I can't forget. There's one scene in the middle of the movie where one of the main characters is trying to hunt the Predator and thinks he saw him so he fires his mini gun at him. While any scene with a mini gun is great, he does it for what seems like forever, and it's pretty laughable for how long he does it and how long he keeps screaming. While it's not a deal breaker, it took me out of the movie, and it did take while to get myself back in. Another thing that's a little dated is the effects, whenever the Predator is invisible, it's not the greatest thing to look at, but luckily everything else was a practical effect. Overall, it's a definite watch for any horror, action, or Schwarzenegger fan, definite recommend.