Why did I waste my time with this movie?

Rating: 5/10 (7 January 2012)

When I was a kid Arnold Schwarzenegger was some kind of an icon to me. I loved the Terminator movies, I loved 'True Lies', I loved 'Commando'... You get the point. I loved nearly everything with Arnold in it. Even the movie where he was pregnant... How did I manage to miss one of his most iconic movies I will never know.
Of course, I am talking about 'Predator'. A few years ago they aired it here on the TV but, sadly(luckily?) there was 'Rambo 2' on some of the other channels and I decided watching the Sly movie rather than the Arnold movie. I haven't watched TV for years.
A few days ago I suddenly remembered that I wanted to see 'Predator' and, of course, I saw it immediately.
I just shouldn't have done it. Sorry. It was very stupid, and, what is worse, it was the wrong kind of "stupid".
Let me tell you what happened: The first five minutes looked promising. I really thought it was going to be a great movie. It had cool looking soldiers, cool tropic atmosphere, etc... During the first 30 minutes I had great fun with the movie. At the end of the first hour I still thought it was OK. But after that... By the time the final confrontation between The Arnold and The Predator happened I had started playing solos on my guitar using the movies' soundtrack as a backing track. Alan Silvestri did a great job, by the way... To sum it up - the movie went from great to very funny, from very funny to OK, from OK to "Why the hell am I wasting my time with this bore-fest?!" You may ask me why, and, of course, being the nice person that I am, I would respond to that question. As I already said, this movie was stupid. I don't have any problems with that. In fact, I love stupid action movies. They are funny. However even the dumbest action movie out there must have at least one character that I would root for. And that is the biggest problem of 'Predator'. There is NO such thing here. Sorry. 'Predator' is an example of how NOT to do character development. None of the characters was developed. We didn't know anything about their desires, nor we did know anything about their back story, nor we did know anything important about them - except the fact that The Black Dude was in love with Jesse Ventura's character and the Dude With The Glasses loved to talk about his girlfriends' private parts, and the Native American Dude was a native American. That is all. Really. Oh, and Jesse Ventura loved chewing tobacco. But really, there is pretty much NOTHING else. Now tell me, can an action movie be any good when its' main characters have less personality than action figures? The director and the actors should not be blamed - they did what they could with a script so utterly horrible it wouldn't be filmed even into a B-movie if the Universe was a better place than it is. The entire story of the movie can be summed up in ONE sentence and the characters are zero-dimensional. I will not spoil it here but you get the point.
And you probably don't agree with me but that is fine. I am used to people thinking I am wrong.
I was disappointed by this movie. Sorry.