Kill Me! Do it now! Kill me, I'm here! Kill me! Come on, do it now, kill me!

Rating: 10/10 (9 August 2018)

Ah, 1987's sci-fi action, Predator, which stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Shane Black, Jesse Ventura and several others as a team of soldiers who one by one become the prey of an alien hunter.
Solid from start to finish with some fine performances, a ton of blood and guts, action galore and its theme score really adds to the overall brutal, jungle atmosphere of the movie. It's great because not only is this one of my favourite Arnold Schwarzenegger films (if not my favourite), but it's one of my favourite films of all time.
The film sees the elite paramilitary explore somewhere in Central America, they're assigned by the CIA to rescue hostages who are held by guerillas. Little does the team know that someone is watching over them, camouflaged. As the film progresses, it sees the extra-terrestrial warrior kill them off one by one. The first kill is Hawkins, whose death scene comes quick and unexpectedly. Toward the end of the film, there's only one male character remaining, as Anna, a woman who's taken in by the team, ran off to find the "Chopper", as Dutch (Schwarzenegger) says earlier. It comes down to Dutch vs the alien warrior. Dutch realises that despite its advanced capabilities, the warrior can't see through mud, even with its powerful heat vision. It uses Infrared to see and wears a mask, has a shoulder cannon, a sphere and a double blade attached to its wrist (I'll delve more into the Predator weapon terminology some other time). Dutch, to his advantage whilst covered in mud, sets up traps to slowly but surely defeat or even wound the creature. After a series of wins by Dutch, a major downfall occurs after Dutch lands in a lake which then clears his mud. Before he's able to get up, the hunter captures him. A few seconds pass before it detaches some of its now-obsolete and unusable weaponry and unmasks. This is where the tables completely turn, and the Predator gets the upper-hand, beating Dutch viciously in a man-to-man like fist fight. Just before it seems as if Dutch hasn't got anything left, having crawled into a small space which has a trap with it, he taunts the warrior to come and kill him, knowing if he does he'll die at the hands of his trap. The Predator, unbeknownst to his trap and plan at first, catches on and decides to go the other way. Just when you think Dutch has been outsmarted, he quickly enables another trap which knocks the Predator down. After Dutch gets a good up-close look at the warrior in its most wounded form thus far, asking the creature what it is, he realises that the Predator has enabled a detonation, self-destruction bomb which ultimately kills him, almost catching Dutch in the process. He merely escapes, bloodily and broken.
With some of the best score from any movie I've seen, with truly-brilliant delivered performances, laughs, an abundance of action and gore, an amazing antagonist, a strong plot, and with a satisfying ending, plus so much more, it's no wonder as to why this is an all-time favourite. It's amazing all-round. And to this day, it remains the best of the entire series. I love it.
10/10.