Great Action/Sci-Fi flick BUT...

Rating: 5/10 (6 July 1999)

The story is well written and the effects are even better, but the movie suffers because of "I'll-be-back"-Arnold. He gives the movie a typical "Arnold-movie" feel (you know, the "we'll-use-a-lot-of-shooting-and-mindless-action-to-cover-for-a-poor-script" ). I seriously think the movie would be better with someone else in the lead role. Now to the special effects: now they are AWESOME. The warping caused by the Predator's cloaking is (if I'm not mistaken) computer generated. Compared with the stop-motion used on the T-800 in "The Terminator" (which is VERY lame), they are really ahead of their time...
The setting is great, but the setting in Predator 2 is better. Anyone can hide in a dense jungle, but it isn't THAT easy to hide in a big city ("Look mommy, a ghost!"). The movie gives you a lot of those "I know you're out there, but I just can't see you". This keeps the movie above moderately interesting 'till the end...
I give the movie a 5...