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Summary: "Predator 2" finally arrives on DVD with average results!
Review: Sequel to the action-packed blockbuster, "Predator", replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger with Danny Glover and the jungles of Central America with the urban backdrop of Los Angeles. Glover is Harrigan, a seasoned LAPD liutenant trapped in a war-infested heat wave as Columbian and Jamaican drug cartels attempt to wipe each other out. Little do the cops or the drug posses know, there is a new player in town: The Predator. The creature is even more deadly the second time around as he packs an even larger arsenal of weapons that he uses to take out everyone in sight. While the police believe that the gruesome murders are the work of the rival gangs, Gary Busey's government operative who is posing as a DEA agent is after something else. When Harrigan calls for a meeting with the Jamaican drug lord, King Willie, he soon begins to realize that he may be dealing with something other than rival dealers. Willie seems to believe that it is a supernatural force. "Predator 2" is not the epic suspense thriller that the first film was but it does have fun with its story. A sequence in which the invisible-cloaked Predator takes out an entire subway train full of cops, gang members, and random civilians is one of the movie's most memorable moments but the film doesn't slow down from there. Glover is chasing his alien nemesis all through out the city before tracking him down to a slaughterhouse where the creature disposes of an elite unit of governemnt agents in record time. There isn't a lot of plot to be found in the concluding act of the film (or anywhere else for that matter) but if you're the kind who likes for the action to tell the story then you won't be dissapointed. This DVD edition of "Predator 2" isn't particulary remarkable. You get the film's theatrical trailer and a nice little featurette from the promotional days of the film but not much else. I can't completetly complain because it offers a lot more than the bare-bones DVD of the first film. I still would have liked to see some deleted footage or maybe an audio commentary but seeing as this movie was only a marginal success in its theatrical run, I should have expected as much.
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Summary: The Ultimate Hunter Returns
Review: A definitive movie-buff's dream come true...An action packed sci-fi extravaganza that rivals it's predecessor. The ending alone is worth five stars. The beginning grabs your attention and doesn't let go. As you may already have guessed from reading other reviews, Danny Glover is an L.A. cop...determined to get his man.(or in this case, Predator)
Bill Paxton is a hotshot cop recently transferred to the precinct who joins Glover's team. Gary Busey is a G-man so obsessed with the Predator that he'll stop at nothing to capture it alive. Also co-starring is Vincent D'Onofrio (Full Metal Jacket, Men In Black), who also plays a G-man on Gary Busey's team.
This movie goes into more detail the nature and tactics of the Predator, as well as new weapons. One of the most memorable battles is the meatlocker scene, between the Predator and the squad of G-men who think they have their target cornered. If you liked the first Predator for it's action, you will not be disappointed by Predator 2. An absolute MUST HAVE ON DVD!
Something to ponder...should the decision be made for a Predator 3, as far as who should be the director, Paul Verhoeven (Robocop, Total Recall) would be a great choice.
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Summary: Surprising Good!
Review: Danny Glover does a good job following up as the new prey to be hunted. This time it is in a future Los Angeles that looks like the Detroit of Robocop, with gangs and crime running rampant. Glover, a much better actor than Arnold gives a more believable and highly entertaining performance as an LA Cop who gets pulled into the pursuit of the alien predator who is preying on the "toughest" good and bad guys in LA for sport. Maria Conchita Alonzo and Ruben Blades also put in good performances as Glovers partners on the LA Police Force. Gary Busey as a seedy government agent looking to track and capture the predator alien. Little does he know that the alien has a lot more tricks up his sleeve than he bargained for. The movie is begging for a follow-up because in one scene we see a whole slew of predator alien hunters showing off their trophys.
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Summary: Where's Arnold?
Review: Skipping past my silly title, I actually liked this movie over Arnold Schwarzenegger's first "Predator." While Arnold has an incredible physique, Danny Glover is more down-to-earth and has to rely more on his wits than Arnold. Danny Glover plays a maverick cop in the vein of Harry Callahan in Clint Eastwood's Dirty Harry movies. As Danny hunts down Columbian drug lords, he soon runs across an alien predator also hunting the same Columbian drug lords. While Danny should be happy that someone else is taking out Columbian drug lords, apparently Danny would rather it be the police instead of an alien hunter, so soon Danny finds himself on the trail of the alien. The original "Predator" had a number of plot holes that were easy to ignore because of the nearly non-stop action. "Predator 2" has even more plot holes, and occasionally they intrude into the action enough that you have to pay attention to them. Perhaps the biggest plot hole is the arrogance and stupidity of Gary Bussey as government agent Peter Keyes. It seems that in action movies the feds always end up being portrayed as too good for everyone's own good, including their own. If Gary and his team were as technologically astute as they appeared to be, they should have recognized that the alien could see their lights in the meat locker. While that particular incident may have been the biggest plot hole, there are a number of others that are occasionally distracting that I will leave for the viewer to discover. The real charm of this movie is that Danny is physically not a match for the predator, and thus must rely much more on his intelligence to thwart the predator. The predator clearly has its own arrogance, for which it ultimately pays, but along the way the interaction between Glover and the alien provide for some very good scenes. In one scene the predator has Danny Glover in a very bad situation. Danny is able to make use of the alien's high tech boomerang weapon to cut off the alien's hand. The alien escapes into a building across the way. By using a cool looking colander the alien mixes a little glass and some other ingredients to make a kind of patch for the stub of his arm. The noise the alien makes as it puts the molten glass and ceramic on its arm scares a little old lady in her bed, providing for a funny moment as the alien leaps out of the lady's bathroom and then her apartment, soon followed by Danny Glover, who has in the meantime found a clever way to get between the two apartment buildings. "Predator 2" is not quite as slick as the first "Predator," and the plot holes are bigger. For all that, I thought "Predator 2" achieved more of the potential of the alien hunter than the first movie, and the action was more frequent and more varied than in the first movie. As with the first movie the final show down is between the main character and the alien, and the outcome is just about as uncertain. While each movie has its charms and its weaknesses, and I am sure some prefer the first over the second, I still think the second has a lot to offer.
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Summary: 10 years later
Review: Predator 2 ten year have gone buy since the first incident. The goverment is know aware of the predotors existence. Another predator lands on Earth attrached by the Conflict in Los Angles between the police and the Cuban Drug Lord. Lots of action violence bad language and gore just like the first one. This one was not big strong Arnold Dutch from the firts movie is replaced by a puny African American police cop. The location change into the city made the movie less scary and suspenful than it's prodescure. Interesting thing there is several predators on earth this time instead of just one. The main Predatopr does not die by self destruct like the on it Instead he bleeds to death from the inside after his chest area is slice open. There have been some changes made the predator has a view new eapons he did not have in the last film. These include a long sharp spear. A net made of some sharp materal that can cut flesh. His must deadly weapon a buzzsaw slash bommerang like weapon. Just like at the end of the first one there is and explosion. Instead of the predator it's the predators ship the cheezy part was when the predator gave him the only gun from the 1700s before the ship self destructs. Not as good as the first Predator but still a good movie. Hopefull Alien Vs Preadtor which comes out this august will do as well as the last 2 did.
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Summary: "Predator 2" finally arrives on DVD with average results!
Review: Sequel to the action-packed blockbuster, "Predator", replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger with Danny Glover and the jungles of Central America with the urban backdrop of Los Angeles. Glover is Harrigan, a seasoned LAPD liutenant trapped in a war-infested heat wave as Columbian and Jamaican drug cartels attempt to wipe each other out. Little do the cops or the drug posses know, there is a new player in town: The Predator. The creature is even more deadly the second time around as he packs an even larger arsenal of weapons that he uses to take out everyone in sight. While the police believe that the gruesome murders are the work of the rival gangs, Gary Busey's government operative who is posing as a DEA agent is after something else. When Harrigan calls for a meeting with the Jamaican drug lord, King Willie, he soon begins to realize that he may be dealing with something other than rival dealers. Willie seems to believe that it is a supernatural force. "Predator 2" is not the epic suspense thriller that the first film was but it does have fun with its story. A sequence in which the invisible-cloaked Predator takes out an entire subway train full of cops, gang members, and random civilians is one of the movie's most memorable moments but the film doesn't slow down from there. Glover is chasing his alien nemesis all through out the city before tracking him down to a slaughterhouse where the creature disposes of an elite unit of governemnt agents in record time. There isn't a lot of plot to be found in the concluding act of the film (or anywhere else for that matter) but if you're the kind who likes for the action to tell the story then you won't be dissapointed. This DVD edition of "Predator 2" isn't particulary remarkable. You get the film's theatrical trailer and a nice little featurette from the promotional days of the film but not much else. I can't completetly complain because it offers a lot more than the bare-bones DVD of the first film. I still would have liked to see some deleted footage or maybe an audio commentary but seeing as this movie was only a marginal success in its theatrical run, I should have expected as much.
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Summary: Great film, average DVD
Review: Many of the people who are complaining simply don't like the fact that Schwarzenegger is not in this film. They automatically associate him with the original Predator, so they do not approach the film with an open mind. Assuming you aren't one of those... Danny Glover is a nice change as he relies on his gray matter to defeat this second predator, which makes the film seem down-to-earth. This film is far more thought-provoking than the first, but that is because the first film is more action-based, while the second film is more character-based. A great "...what if ordinary people had to deal with this extra-terrestrial hunter..." type of film. The musical score is improved over the first though. A worthy successor to the first film. The DVD itself though is only an average production quality.
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Summary: Good sequel.
Review: I thought this was a good sequel to a great movie. The Predator is back( Don't ask who brought him back to life, I have no idea) and this time, his in L.A., wich just so happens to be over run by gansters. When the Predator comes in, well, we should know what happens. There is a cop named, umm, some thing and he is trying to stop the Predator. I thought this was a cool movie. Is it better than the first? No, the first one had better charactors, a better setting, and the Predator look a little cooler. The thing I liked about the sequel was it tryed to bring something freash and new in. You'll like this movie if you liked the first. Can't wait for Predator 3 and Alien vs. predator! Look in the trophy room for the skull of another popular sci-fi charactor!(Hint: He will be invalved with the Predator's future life, okay, I know I just gave it away, but you'll like the surpires anyway!)
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Summary: Dominic, LA does have a subway system....
Review: It was a good sequal, although the story wasnt all that great. And Los Angeles does have a subway system, look it up...
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Summary: Morten Downey Jr ruined this movie
Review: I want to say that I enjoyed the movie and the possibilities of where it could have been going, with the ideas in the film, the way we got to see the inside of the space ship, the way the presence of the predator creature could be understood in terms of the spirit world as understood in a voodoo way of thinking, and well we got a bit more of a glimpse of the predator culture and the head of an alien from the movie Aliens, which although was a film joke, turned out to be a crumb of an idea that would lead to a sequel for this movie. The main actor in the movie was good enough, and I liked the fact that I did not know about him at all before this movie. The effects were good too. Nothing was out of place for me apart from one thing!.....One thing that held it back viciously! ...... It wasn't the presence of underground trains in LA, which there are none of in real life, but instead the presence of Morten Downey Jr as a reporter, turning up repeatedly through the film trying to uncover the truth of what was going on, in ways as irritating to me as the man himself. It utterly ruined the credibility of the picture! It turned it almost into a pile of s**t! If the director would only recut the film removing all signs of this man, I would enjoy the movie much much more, and give it an extra star
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