It gets the job done

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2014)

This movie is generally a mixed bag. Arnold Schwarzenegger, while not always the best actor, provides a very decent performance and it wouldn't be a Schwarzenegger movie without his classic one liners, "GET TO THE CHOPPA!" And, "If it bleeds, we can kill it." But it isn't just Arnold here, the other squad members do provide some very crude, but funny, humor and actually have some other memorable quotes as well. As a bit of an actor, director, stop motion animation filmmaker, and writer, I can say that this is a solid Schwarzenegger movie. Now would it be completely tolerable without Arnold? Well, maybe but if Carl Weathers wasn't in it as we'll, this movie probably would have faded into the huge cluster of 80s B horror movies. The plot isn't really Oscar material though, I really think this movie was generally focused on the predator, ironically more than the box office machine Schwarzenegger. I admire this film though it is pretty well paced, except I thought most of the squad was kinda picked off quick. I proudly admit that I have this film on DVD and I love it, in fact I have been thinking about making my own little predator movie here using a mask I recently got. So I am going easy on this one cause I have loved the predator since I was a kid. If you watch this it will make you a sexual tyrannosaur.