Terminator fights Predatornator

Rating: 8/10 (20 May 2016)

Yes, it's that fu..in' alien that started it all, in another super dooper fantastic box office smash Arnie movie. These were the years, like all those other flexing meatheads we loved, when they did better movies. In this original, the best of course if only stacked up against No 2 (as I haven't seen the others) we see much more of the alien, some nice ones in CU- who is as Arnie quotes, "One ugly son of a bitch". The story starts off pretty much as Rambo, where an elite team of commandos go into the jungles of South America, to take down an army of rebels who have hostages, where this part of story eases beautifully among the great shootout sequences, with Arnie, popping in a few one liners, and then the other more graver part of the movie, the predator. Much blood is spilled, more here than the second, where one by one, they are taken out by this beast who moves with beautifully agility in camouflage, until he's down to one man. Have a guess, who? The last twenty minutes, is a much grueling due between two adversaries, with Arnie baiting the monster, and it's a greatly shot and thought out sequence. Remember, the predator is no push over, none more a hell of a challenge. Elpidia Carrillo, as the only remaining hostage, is given more dialogue, than you think she would be given. She's very good. Arnie's Arnie. Weathers, looks like Action Jackson at the start, indeed a worry, while the supporting and very familiar connected cast, including a lucrative screenwriter, give better performances, Ventura, an acting revelation, while it was Sonny Landham's performance which got me. A very well made sci fi horror, and another notch on Arnie's blockbusters.