Stunning action movie!

Rating: 9/10 (17 April 2002)

This is ONE of Arnie's best flicks but not the all time best. I would say his all time best is 'The Terminator', which is quite ironic seeing as though the elite team in the jungle is being hunted systematically by a machine like hunter with incredible strength and deadly accuracy, which is similar to Arnie's role in James Cameron's sci-fi classic 1984 blockbuster.
Nevertheless, 'Predator' is a fantastic movie, successfully combining terror with great action sequences and unbearable suspense. The predator itself has an unbelievable arsenal of state of the art weapons from outer space, and from the beginning of the movie when it makes it's first kill, it looks simply invincible. That is, until Arnie gets to grips with it's infra red vision, quite by accident. Schwarzenegger is great too in this film and successfully shows off his variety of huge muscles. The supporting cast is also impressive, with Richard Chaves and Carl Weathers (Rocky series) along with my favourite of the supporting cast Jesse Ventura. His Rotary cannon kicks ass, but there is no way any human being could fire that gun just by holding it. More realistically, he would need to place it on some kind of stantion or support. Regardless, who cares?!, he looks cool with a gun like that!.
My only question of the film is how the hell did the character 'Hawkins' get into this elite team of commandos. Everyone of them looks in great shape and has great physical capabilities except 'Hawkins' who looks like a geek and a wimp. I must assume that he must be part of the team because he is some communications expert or something relevant to that. Surely he couldn't have qualified to be a fighter?!.
Fantastic film, one of my all time favourites, highly recommended.
Rating 9/10.