An action movie that actually has action.

Rating: 6/10 (3 September 2008)

Sure the effects are a bit outdated, but who cares? The movie itself is possibly the greatest action movie of all time, and the horror elements can't be matched by 90% of what comes out today.
Predator has just about as much gore as most modern movies, but it does something they have forgottenthe gore isn't something so generic you've seen a thousand times. Some of it, like the head on the stick, are so much more over-the-top than what films attempt today it's just amazing. At one point blood flies so thick it literally covers the screen for a few seconds! With 30 Days of Night, The Decent, and The Mist: why couldn't they at least show as much carnage as a monster movie that came out decades before them? Shouldn't we be pushing the limits of gore, not making more stupid cut-off scenes? Also, I'd like to mention the well thought out the movie is. Contrary to sucky copy/paste monsters in the movies I just mentioned, the Predators actually took some thought to design. They really, REALLY make most action-monster movies today look retarded. Really, at one time we had Predators (some of the coolest creatures imaginable), now we have ridicules talking vines that eat people (in The Ruins). Predator stands the test of time to show me that our generation doesn't have a single original idea in their cheese-filled heads that shout: "No, this is too much gore . . . the audience can't handle this . . . we have to make another cut-off scene." From beginning to end Predator is flawless. I can only imagine what it would have been like to view when it first came out, before all the surprises were given away and become part of pulp culture. But even for someone who has seen both AvP movies, thus knowing every surprise that this superior film has, Predator is still one of the most flawless action movies ever.
5/10