Rambo Meets Alien...Sort of

Rating: Null/10 (2 September 2001)

Arnold Swarzenegger, the master of the one-liner, action sequences requiring huge budgets, and the acting skill of a dead snake, brings a rag-tag commando group into the South(or Central) American jungle to find a cabinet member. At least that is the story told to him by superior officer(and another "great" actor) Carl Weathers. The first half of the film(actually 40 some odd minutes) shows Arnold, Carl, and this crack commando group, which by the way is populated with the various stereotypical kind of guys like the nerdy guy with glasses making sexual jokes, the Indian that can smell danger before it happens, the rugged outdoors type(Jesse Ventura) with guts for brains, and so on)walking through the jungle, finding a group of men earlier sent in stripped to the skin, and then firing and capturing an enemy camp. Okay...pretty boring up to here, but then things get interesting as the group plus one hostage girl are preyed upon by an alien hunter ala The Most Dangerous Game. It seems the alien enjoys hunting for sport. He is an impressive alien, and mucho credit goes to the genius of Stan Winston for its creation. The alien has green, phospherescent blood, a surgical kit imbedded in its arm, and an ability to cloak itself and blend in with the jungle. You know what is going to happen every step of the way, but the film is fun and entertaining if not taken too seriously. Just don't look for great acting or some rich subtext here. You won't find it. Just some good old-fashioned man versus alien, good versus bad stuff here.