An entertaining marriage of action and science-fiction.

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2010)

The film is so lean, so exciting and so imaginative that you can watch it every month or two, year in year out, and never get tired of it. A team of US commandos, sent to eliminate gun-running in South America, find they are being targeted by a deadly alien.
Predator is an action thriller that more ore less dispenses with human interaction completely, and concentrates on chases, combat and special effects. Still, director John McTiernan keeps the tension ratcheted up efficiently. The soundtrack was composed by Alan Silvestri, who was coming off the huge success of Back To the Future in 1985. In 2008, Empire magazine ranked the film 336th on their list of The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time.