The Ultimate Movie Experience

Rating: 10/10 (14 May 2015)

I saw this movie when I was 5 years old, and still, at the age of 32, I watch it nearly every year. I never tire of this masterpiece.
Why is it one of the greatest action/sci-fi/horror films of all time? Because it's director John McTiernan at his best, it has a cast of talented macho men running around in the jungle firing witty dialogue and big guns at every leaf or tree branch that looks out of place, and the slow-burn build-up to the epic last act keeps your heart rate steadily increasing until you think it's going to explode out of your chest.
The Predator itself is one of the best designed creatures in the history of creature design. Stan Winston's imagination has been immortalised by this creature alone.
The greatest part of the movie though: Alan Silvestri's thumping, pumping, bravely brass score. It's close to being the most perfect score to have ever been written for a movie. Every note, every horn, every drum beat feels like if the film had a bone fide soul, Silvestri was channelling it.
If you have not seen this movie, there may be something wrong with you, so get to the video store, fly there on a chopper if you have to, and see what a real action movie looks like.