Predator (1987)

05/20/22 • 17 min

Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Dutch, the head of an elite mercenary extraction squad who are sent deep into the Latin American jungle to “rescue” some high-level US diplomats. And they are quite the crew also including CIA operative Dillon played by Carl Weathers, Mac played by Bill Duke, Billy played by Sonny Landham, and Blaine played by Jesse “The Mind” Ventura – they have all of the fire-power they could possibly need plus a cast including TWO future governors, so what could go wrong?
Well there happens to be a special visitor from WAY out of town who’s on the hunt....for human skulls. :o And this visitor has his own firepower, including laser guns which can dismember his victims along with cloaking technology allowing him to sneak up on them among the trees. What results is ONE hell of a battle between Man AND Alien directed by genre master John McTiernan who would go on to direct Die Hard the following year!

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Living for the Cinema - Predator (1987)

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PREDATOR - 1987

Directed by John McTiernan

Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Elpidia Carrillo, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Kevin Peter Hall, and Shane Black

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Action Adventure (Audio clip)

This was a fun rewatch - having now seen this so many times, I was determined to try to observe the story more from the Predator's perspective and it's interesting to say the least. He's basically a mid-tier hunte