Stealthy and deadly

Rating: 9/10 (28 January 2004)

Who's taking bets on who's going to win when Paul Anderson sets them against the Aliens then? They're very different species  where the Aliens tend to attack in force, the Predator in this film is a tracker, a hunter. He's got chameleonic/invisibility technology long before the Jem'Hadar in Star Trek Deep Space Nine. And he steals an entire film from Arnold Schwarzenegger. The sequel is also good, by the way, but doesn't quite come up to the class of the original. Set entirely in a jungle environment as the cast get picked off one by one, it's as if an alien monster has been dropped into the middle of Platoon.