Dug in like an Alabama Tick.....

Rating: 10/10 (10 March 2012)

Dutch and a team of commandos have been sent into a Central American jungle to track down some missing airmen that were kidnapped by terrorists.
By the time they get to the camp, the airmen have been butchered in a very violent fashion and the commandos retaliate on the terrorists' camp.
After that's over, they wait for a helicopter to pick them up, but something strange begins to happen in the woods.
It isn't long before the commandos start getting killed off and Dutch and a girl from the camp, Anna, are the only people left and fighting for their lives.
But what they discover is too shocking for them to imagine.
What's been killing them is the Predator, an alien that hunts rare species and make his trophies out of their skulls.
And human beings are the new species he has discovered....
When people mention great films of the Eighties (fun ones) this movie must crop up several times. It's easily Arnolds most fun movie where he isn't a cyborg, and the film has dated really well.
It's the perfect example of can't fail cinema, by splitting the film into three parts..
Part one..
The recovery of the missing troops, AKA First Blood: Part 2 done in 20 minutes.
Part two..
The hunted, AKA the bit in the film where you and your mates guess who will die first, and it gets sentimental.
Part three..
The showdown AKA Arnold has a fight with an Alien, the bit that sold the movie. The High Concept.
The film cannot fail, it doesn't fail, it delivers what it promises, and the first ninety minutes is just (albeit excellent) filler for what people really want to see, the biggest action hero in the world beat up an Alien.
How could it be better? The answer is it cannot. And no matter how many sequels, side-quels, crossovers this film has, it will never be tarnished.
All the cast are great, and the film is endlessly quotable.
If you haven't seen this, I beg you to see one of the finest Sci-Fi/Action movies ever made.