Rating: 
Summary: CAN'T LIVE UP TO THE ORIGINAL. NO CHANCE AT ALL!
Review: PREDATOR 2 is the sequel to Arnold Schwarzenegger's action packed adventure film, PREDATOR. This time around, it is the year 1997 in Los Angeles, and there is another loose 'Predator'. Now an L.A. detective (Danny Glover- Lethal Weapon Series) is the only one to stand in the way of the Predator's destructive, and many times, blood drenched paths. From a city street shootout, to a freaky gutting building, to a subway, onto a family's house, into a bone collecting black druglord's alley, then into an old couple's bathroom and back into its home ship, the Predator leaves behind a brutal trail of mass destructive power.MY REVIEW: "THIS MOVIE IS GOOFY MANY TIMES! First off, DANNY GLOVER? A group of heavy armed commandoes couldn't destroy this PREDATOR! But an L.A. cop, set in an unrealistic 1997 New York (This movie was made in 1990), could beat this creature!???? ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, the big guy himself, was left half dead in the original! But now, GLOVER was only left at the end of PREDATOR 2, covered in white sand and only had a few cuts and scratches! This movie failed to look at the original PREDATOR in the right direction to make an accurate, really entertaining sequel. This PREDATOR was supposed to be smarter than the first, and it had much better weapons than the original PREDATOR did! It is [bad] in that aspect, but the film is still very entertaining, just not nearly as good as the original PREDATOR. The acting by DANNY GLOVER, BILL PAXTON and GARY BUSEY was just odd. It was a typical, expected plot too. THE PREDATOR IS IN THE CITIES, SKINNING PEOPLE, ONLY ONE GOOFY COCKY POLICE OFFICER WILL GO TO STOP HIM, AND ONE MAN (Busey) IS OBSCESSED WITH HUNTING DOWN THIS PREDATOR AND CATCHING HIM WITHOUT A CLUE AS TO HOW IN THE HECK TO DO IT. NOW IT IS THE COP AND THE PREDATOR, ONE ON ONE IN THE CITY. This film tries to be scary like the first, but fails, and tries to have good acting, and fails, and tries to have an original plot with surprises, and fails. Director STEPHEN HOPKINS (Lost in Space) should've given his directing chair up to RIDLEY SCOTT, JAMES CAMERON or JOHN McTIERNAN (John directed the first film.). BOTTOM LINE: See the original first, if you liked that one, which you should or you are strange, then try this one- but don't have high expectations."- MJV & the Movies.
Rating: 
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.
Rating: 
Summary: VERY GOOD SEQUEL.
Review: THIS IS A VERY GOOD SEQUEL TO 1987'S PREDATOR. ALOT OF PEOPLE GOT UPSET BECAUSE ARNOLDS CHARACTER OF "DUTCH" ISN'T IN THIS ONE, AND I AGREE THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A DETAILED EXPLANATION FOR THIS. I READ THE BOOK ABOUT 13 YEARS AGO AND IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN THE EXPLANATION WAS THAT HE HAD DIED FROM WOUNDS FROM HIS ENCOUNTER WITH THE PREDATOR. BUT THE FILMS, AS SOME OTHER REVIEWERS HAVE POINTED OUT, ARE NOT ABOUT HIS CHARACTER ANYWAY. THERE ABOUT THE PREDATOR. AND ONCE YOU REALIZE THAT, THIS MOVIE BECOMES PRETTY DA_N GOOD. THE PLOT IS STRAIGHT FORWARD AND ACTUALLY INTERESTING. HERE IT IS: THE PREDATORS COME TO EARTH EVERY NOW AND AGAIN LOOKING FOR A CHALLENGE, THIS TIME THE CHALLENGE IS IN LOS ANGELES AND DANNY GLOVER IS A COP WHO IS TRYING TO STOP THE ALIEN. THAT'S IT. NOT TOO COMPLICATED, JUST LOTS OF GORE AND ACTION AND GREAT F/X. BOTTOM LINE: UNLIKE MOST SEQUELS, THIS IS A GOOD MOVIE AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT.
Rating:
Summary: Almost As Good As The Original
Review: To tell you the truth, Paul W.S. Anderson, the director of Alien Vs. Predator, said that this predator film really inspired his film better than the original Predator. If you really pay attention to detail in both films, you can really see that Predator 2 is inside of it. The skeletal craniums is an exmaple of Predator 2 and AVP mixed. There is a bunch of different things in Predator 2 that inspired. I love this movie.
|
