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Critics Consensus: Predator: Part sci-fi, part horror, part action -- all muscle.
Critic Consensus: Predator: Part sci-fi, part horror, part action -- all muscle.
All Critics (46) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (9) | DVD (30)
Despite the off-rhythm styling, there's not a lot going on.
With its stilted dialogue and hammy acting, the film has the look of an expensive production but the feel of a B movie, delivering the sort of undemanding monster mayhem Arnie's fans have come to expect.
It is so lean, so exciting and so imaginative that you can watch it every month or two, year in and year out, and never get tired of it.
Alternately grisly and dull.
It's a slick, high-energy action picture that takes a lot of its strength from its steamy locations in Mexico.
A whole mess of talent working at the top of their games in front of and behind the camera came together at the perfect times in their careers to create the lightning in a bottle that is Predator.
Pure action cinema at its most efficient and charmingly unpretentious, Predator remains a lean masterpiece over three decades on.
Predator does not just fuse different generic elements, it also plays on Schwarzenegger's star image, in particular by reversing his role in The Terminator by casting him as the human in conflict with the alien robot.
An '80s classic full of still-thrilling action, quotable one-liners ("Get to the chopper!" "Stick around!") and sly digs at Uncle Sam's penchant for unwinnable jungle wars.
"If idd bleeds, we can kill it..."
A year before the release of Die Hard, McTiernan captured loads of suspense, terror, and sheer testosterone. They simply don't make them like this anymore.
It's the perfect blend of explosive machismo and thrills where the setting is almost as ominous as the terrifying extra-terrestrial villain.
A close call as one of Arnie's best films. A very good action/horror that still looks up to date with recent films.
Super Reviewer
This film is a strange hybrid of the horror genre and the action genre, leaning more towards action thanks to the casting of beefcake Arnold Schwarzenegger. The film follows the exploits of a special regiment of soldiers who are dispatched into the South American jungle to find a missing crew. In wait is a shipwrecked alien creature who hunts all the humans it comes into contact with. The gory deaths of the crew, as the Predator takes them down one by one, makes up the first section of the film, and shows the lack of empathy that this being has for human life. He is on this planet to hunt and kill, and with the knowledge of this motivation, comes uncertainty that any character will actually survive. Arnold, of course, becomes the everyman in this situation and is given the responsibility of taking down the motley creature, through any means necessary. It's definitely an interesting film, since it deals with survival and the endurance of the human spirit. The Predator is a very grotesque and original concept for an alien, and that's why it has lasted as an iconic movie monster.
What if the victims in a horror film were ready for a fight ... were in fact a crack team of mercenaries? That's the opening premise of this 80's pulse pounder that centerpiece is the dream faceoff of Ahnold against the space alien. B movie aesthetics, A movie thrills.
A corny if effectively made poor-man's "Alien" concerning a group of soldiers (led by Arnold Schwarzenegger) who are sent in on a rescue mission, only to find that they have been lied too by the government and in amongst the Central American forests lie a creature that is intent on stalking them and killing them one by one. As said, this film is really, really corny, with a predictable-enough storyline of each of these soldiers being picked off one by one by the monster as if in some teen horror flick. However, with that said, this does not mean that it is not ferociously entertaining, due to crowd-pleasing talents like Arnold and Carl Weathers taking up a large chunk of the screen-time. The final showdown between Arnold and the Predator brings the goods and some, where director John McTiernan is allowed to flex his muscle and skill in ratcheting up the suspense. The special effects have also aged extremely well, and the introduction of the creature, being that we only see his point of view through heat sensors, is a nice choice. Enjoyable, tightly paced, beautifully photographed, and fun to watch, somehow, despite being ridiculous and lacking in character development to a large extent, "Predator" still gets it done.
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