Well done action/ scifi/ horror hybrid

Rating: 7/10 (18 July 2015)

Quite a different role for Schwartzenegger here, he is not the focal point of this action/ sci-fi/ horror hybrid. Film initially doesn't favour any one character over another. All six men have nearly equal presence felt in the first half, as they find themselves hunted by unknown individuals in a Central American wilderness. Their number is slowly whittled down, one by one, as is their arms and weaponry, by an unseen enemy using the jungle as camouflage, using the treetops to move undetected. When revealed, the most formidable enemy is an eight-foot tall alien, trophy hunting on Earth. In the final act, Schwartzenegger is left alone to ... face the creature, or to run from it? Kill it, or escape from it, if that's even possible?
One of the most memorable villains ever put on film, in a clever and unique, original story, mixing several genres quite well together.
Clever joke at the end, after we've heard the Predator mimicking or repeating a couple lines of dialogue spoken by Schwartzenegger and his men during the film, Ahnuld takes one last look at the fatally(?) injured Predator and says, "What the hell are you?", only to hear the Predator immediately throw those exact same words back at Ahnuld. I've always thought that was just the Predator mimicking the sounds coming from his potential prey, without even comprehending language and what those sounds and words meant.
But, could the Predator ever have been killed, if it had not basically committed suicide by blast? Or was there nothing on Earth which could ever have stopped it?