This movie was also extremely realistic and gory. All in all, this movie is fantastic and a few ignorant critics just want to bring it down by comparing it with the uniqueness of the original.

crazy beast that kills things left and right. This is an intelligent being that is looking for a good hunt. I love that the Predator doesn't attack anyone that he doesn't consider a threat or isn't a challenge. I LOVE that he has compassion and respect for an expectant mother.I have to say there are only 2 or 3 little things that I didn't like about the movie, but they aren't anything I can't deal with. I wasn't too fond of the Predator being struck by lightning...sure, it looks cool, but don't you think that would hurt him pretty bad?All in all, I genuinely LOVED this movie! I don't know what is is about this movie that just doesn't sit well with a lot of the reviewers on this site, but I loved it. I REALLY hope that they go ahead with a 3rd installment, but it won't be the same without Kevin Peter Hall R.I.P. . Thanks for reading.-Cortex

street-roof chase, the slaughter house fight, the roof top fight that spills into the apartment building across the street, the elevator shaft, and finally to the Predator ship itself. It is a breathless series of action sequences strung together so well that it's almost astonishing to look back on it and imagine such effort was crafted to make this movie.This movie would never be made today. A sequel without the main character from the fist movie? A whole new setting? This would be seen as too great a risk, but in 1990 movie studios were still run by creative people, not accountants. This movie is a true, unsung classic of sci-fi, coming from an age when great care was put into genre movies that had strong stories, good characters, and dialogue that didn't sound silly and forced. Lines weren't meant to become one-liners, they were just so memorable that they ended up that way."You can't see the eyes of the demon, until him come calling." "Okay P-ssy face, it's your move." "Danny Boy."And of course..."Want some candy?"Granted, those aren't as good as the classics from the first Predator, like:"You son of a bitch!" "I ain't got time to bleed." "Knock Knock." "Stick around." "If it bleeds, we can kill it." "You are one ugly mother f---er."and of course..."AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"Last but not least, the music score from Predator 2 is one of the best ever. Alan Silvestri hasn't topped his work from this movie which has to have one of the most complex, layered, and just flat out astounding main themes ever composed for an action movie, or any movie.And of course, it had the cameo that sparked the whole Alien vs Predator phenomenon. If it weren't for Predator 2, god knows where we'd be.

speak of. Alongside this is Danny Glover's powerful lead role, a vision of Los Angeles as the epicentre of violent culture clashes foreshadowing the racial tensions that led to the 1992 riots and some brutally relentless action sequences. And yet despite all this, it's still looked on as the lesser of two movies, when the only argument to suggest this is "cos, you know, Arnie isn't in it is he?"Set in the then-future 1997, Predator 2 negates the rain-forest location by pitting the Hunter into the concrete jungle of LA. The city is on the brink of collapse, torn apart by street wars between rival drug gangs. Fittingly, the film begins with an out-gunned police force struggling to deal with a trigger happy band of Mexican coke pushers. Arriving at almost the same time are the veteran police man Mike Harrigan Glover and the Hunter, who watches and waits, selecting targets to add to the trophy cabinet. One horrific burst of mechanised violence later and Harrigan has a mystery on his hands, involving mutilated corpses and an invisible killer who vanished into thin air. Setting out to solve the case, Harrigan and his fellow officers pursue the Predator while trying to deal with the drug lords and a Government team that knows more than they are telling. Then things get personal when one of Harrigan's friends is killed...Danny Glover is nothing short of brilliant in this film. Older and wiser but more out of shape than Arnie, he is a far more realistic opponent for the Predator to face than the Governator ever was and shows what happens when your average cop fights the alien, rather than a pumped up superman. No disrespect to Arnie, but Glover is also a better actor and inhabits his character completely, going about his job with the same reckless professionalism but also a sense of embittered frustration. Harrigan is no hero, he's just a man who's spent more time in the trenches than most.The Hunter meanwhile is still just as formidable in the second round. This one is a bit more headstrong than the first, not afraid to waltz into the middle of firefights and rip Jamaican gangsters to pieces, but also a bit more vulnerable. The city after all is unfamiliar terrain and Harrigan has mastered their environment, giving him an edge that he perhaps wouldn't have held in the wild. In true sequel fashion meanwhile, the Predator gets a wealth of cool new weapons to play with, including a net made of razor wire, a spear tip launcher and best of all, a shiny metal disc perfect for slicing FBI guys in half.Shame then that the supporting cast isn't quite so colourful as Dillon, Mac, Blaine et al. The eighties action heroine of choice, Maria Conchita Alonso makes a decent appearance as a ball busting cop and she is joined with her Aliens co-star Bill Paxton as the smooth newbie, but neither are as memorable as the commandos were. Thank God then for Gary Busey, chewing up the scenery as the head of the investigation team.Aside from that though, Predator 2 is definitely the better film. It's a lot grittier for one thing, the cartoon gore of the first replaced with some gruelling ordeals. It's also much darker, thanks to the air of urban paranoia and allusions to drug smuggling and prostitution. The only thing that really lets it down is the fact that it relies a bit too heavily on racial stereotyping, but that's easy to forgive when you've got a finale as terrific as this. Lasting over three quarters of an hour, the final bout begins on a packed train, moves to a slaughterhouse where an elite team of specialists take on the Hunter in a frozen abattoir, before Harrigan gives chase to the alien, pursuing him over rooftops, down the the side of buildings and into the dark underbelly of the city. It hasn't got Arnie in it? It doesn't need him.

about their suspect. Again i saw the same alien with his same tactic and also its one good side not to kill innocent. I watched it 1st time in 1991 again next year but most enjoyable was on a rainy day at 12 DEC 1992 winter season, when my bro and his friend along with my friend who were also bros went on to watch a movie Cyborg but it was no longer on the show so we decided to move to another theater and here we found it. Its Dolby digital experience was very much great.I remember when the predator goes to hunt the local gang leader ,face to face , the sound his steps were making my seat shaken. While when it suddenly attacked the ongoing subway locomotion my friend was scared very much because he was sleepy and awaken by a sudden thunder. I some time again watch it and it is as much good as its predecessor.

with the first one with Arnie but it is truly enjoyable.

whining punk leader that got his hand nearly ripped off in the first Terminator. He was the whining brother to Wyatt Erp in Tombstone. He also played the whiner Hudson in Aliens. And so now they want us to believe him as the "Cowboy;" a renegade tough guy cop. Okay. I'll buy it. But I want a refund and a Coke, okay? The Predators were done in a slick style in this attempt. I'm not going to say better, but slicker. Their gadgets were better conceived, as were their abilities, and you really felt like you got a bit more movie for the time you spent watching it.The story was solid and the performances were better than average. The first one was slow and suspenseful; a device well used in suspense type productions, as "Predator" was. This one moved at an even pace and wasn't slow anywhere.I'm too impatient to enjoy that suspense-building device, though. When I go see a monster movie, I want action. I need the character development, but the monsters better be aggressive at some point! But this one gives you both. You get to know the characters and to care about what happens to them, through the exchanges in virtual non-stop action sequences. This movie starts off with action and ends with action. Niiiice production. Very nice.You also see the Alien tie-in in this installment. At the end, when Danny Glover is standing inside the Predator ship, notice the Alien skull hanging on the back wall.It rates a 8.1/10 from...the Fiend :.

and pitting the Predator against a tough grizzled but hardly giganticus beefcakeus cop Danny Glover gives us a smart brains against brawn story. Also cutely is that director Stephen Hopkins and writers Jim & John Thomas have actually got the Predator cleaning up the streets of L.A., in fact another two hours of Predator hunt and kill tactics and crime in L.A. would have been completely eradicated! There is plenty of bloody snotty gore to appease fans of that persuasion, and it's nice to report that the characters on show do actually impact as part of the story.Voodoo magic man!It has a fine cast that reads like a who's who of action films, Danny Glover Lethal Weapon , Bill Paxton Aliens , Robert Davi Die Hard , Gary Busey Under Siege , Rubén Blades Once Upon a Time in Mexico & Maria Conchita Alonso The Running Man , whilst Kevin Peter Hall dons the Predator suit and suitably kicks arse again. It's not genius, it's not even ground breaking, but Predator 2 is a fine and entertaining genre piece that sadly seems to forever be undervalued on internet forums.Who's Next? 8/10

the ever-crazed Gary Busey .Although completely predictable and pretty mindless, "Predator 2" nonetheless still sizes up as an enjoyably over-the-top sci-fi/action item thanks to Stephen Hopkins' brisk, stylish direction, first-rate make-up f/x by Stan Winston, a stirring score by Alan Silvestri, wall-to-wall in-your-face explosive action set pieces, a breathless frenetic pace, and plenty of excessive graphic splatter. The capable and interesting supporting cast qualifies as another substantial asset: Ruben Blades as Harrison's amiable partner Danny, Maria Conchita Alonso as foulmouthed female flatfoot Leona, the always delightfully dynamic Bill Paxton as cocksure badge bandit Jerry Lambert, Robert Davi as jerk fed Heineman, Calvin Lockhart as flamboyant Jamaican drug lord King Willie his back alley confrontation with the Predator is one of the picture's definite highlights , veteran character actress Lilyan Chauvan Mother Superior in the splendidly sleazy sicko Santa slasher classic "Silent Night, Deadly Night" as a stern coroner Lilyan easily cops the film's best line when she explains that one victim was "boned like a fish" , and, in an especially adroit piece of casting, infamously odious tabloid TV talk show host Morton Downey, Jr. as obnoxious loudmouth reporter Tony Pope. Foxy popular porn star Teri Weigel briefly appears clad solely in her birthday suit. Good, trashy fun.