A great deal more thoughtful than most of Arnie's action movies

Rating: 6/10 (18 February 2016)

Predator, when you sit down and think about it, is a great deal more thoughtful than most of Arnie's brainless, all guns blazing action movies. The film is less sympathetic towards its military protagonists. Rather, it shows them up. Juxtaposing Schwarzenegger and his fellow cast spending the first half of the film measuring each other's manhoods, we spend the film's climax with an excellently designed creature seemingly built for battle. While the Predator is born to fight, humanity chooses to. Ooh. That's probably a deeper analysis than the filmmakers ever intended. Aside from all that, it's loud, quite fun and it's got lovely violence all the way through.