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Memorable, timeless and essential. You will never tire of seeing it.
Fun; Testosterone is dripping from the screen watching the friendship of these tough and mazao Vietnam veterans. (Muscles will never go out of style)
If there is any name in the entire history of cinema capable of killing an alien with his hands tied behind his back, it is the governor of California (Arnold Schwarzenegger, the only guy who would tie a match with Chuck Norris with a head butt)
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Here we have another curious case of a film widely criticized by professional critics around 1987, but which no longer seems such a flat film to them today.
For many people (like me) it is considered cult and one of the most recognizable films of the 80s, a film that moves between several genres, the action scifi and the thriller perfectly combined creating their own universe. As in good wine, the film continues to gain integers over the years, also helped thanks to the terrible scifi or action films that are released today.
The diminished genius John Mctiernan did here one of his best works, catapulting him to the 1st league, consolidating shortly after with his following works such as "the glass jungle" or "The hunt for Red October". His visual work in Predator is great, plunging us fully into a South American jungle and as the footage progresses we find ourselves as bewildered, scared and oppressed as his own protagonists, directing it with a firm hand, giving what it asks for at every moment.
Its script is as simple as it is brilliant, effective and direct, where great dialogues are not necessary since situations do not give rise to it and a premise as simple as where a group of mercenaries is hired by the CIA to rescue some pilots captured by a South American guerrilla becomes a great Macguffin that even Hitchcook himself would take off his hat. His secondary characters... if they are stereotypes, but well defined enough to differentiate themselves from each other and leaving correct records of Carl Wheathers and Bill duke giving way to the role of "chuache" and in a luxury antagonist Predator with an anthological final battle face to face.
All this is mixed with the know-how of the king of effects Stan Winston, Silvestri's highly inspired B.S.O, a well-cared photography, well-orchestrated action and a few jokes and phrases with testosterone and the result is…. Predator a film that enters popular culture on its own merits.
HIGHLIGHT
1- Mctiernan and his brilliant cinematographic language.
2- Stan Winston and the creation of him; predator.
3- Simple and brilliant script at the same time.
4- Good photography.
5- Chuache in a state of grace.
AGAINST
Not appreciate it.