Predator 2

More story-led than the original with a high enough body count to make it a satisfying action movie.

Beautifully outfitted and moodily photographed, the movie is directed by Stephen Hopkins, the Jamaican-born Australian responsible for Nightmare on Elm Street V. He keeps the pedal to the metal but never allows the explosive action to minimize his actors.

The film's energy and style are enough to recommend it. Lovers of the original should be pleased with this effort, as should most fans of the genre.

Downey's cameo is one of the few unexpected - even terrorful - moments in this entirely pedestrian sequel, which like its predecessor is almost but never quite frightening. [21 Nov 1990, p.38P]

It's shoot-em-up action from start to finish, beginning at such a peak that there's hardly any room for the action to build or climax.

The dumbest, goriest bone-cruncher of the season: an unnecessary and Arnold-less sequel to the Schwarzenegger science-fiction hit of three years ago. [21 Nov 1990, p.C3]

The whole noisy movie is really just a setup for the climactic duel between renegade cop Danny Glover and the monster. By that point, you’re pathetically grateful for a few stomach-churning special effects.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

“Predator 2” is a clean cut example of an interesting concept becoming bogged down by a myriad of missteps; chiefly among them being a lack of purposeful vision. What started off as a welcome shift in environment and theme devolves gradually into something of a mismanaged slasher flick, which is unfortunate given the potential the initial premise had. Though it is speckled with some impressive action sequences and serviceable acting throughout, it is equally riddled with contrivances, nonsensicalities, and f-bombs galore.Concerning the plot, the film opens to a firefight between the police and a gang faction as an ongoing drug war is being waged. Soon following the arrival of Lt. Mike Harrigan, the members of the gang they pushed back fall victim to the Predator (who manages to escape the close-quarters bullet-hell unscathed). At a loss for the perpetrator of the massacre, Harrigan and his team are put further on the back foot when Federal agents insist that they stay in their lane and not investigate further. Not dissuaded, Mike persists in looking into the matter after the rival gang of the first attacks (and is then attacked) by the Predator, leading to another slaughter. Also, insert unnecessary explicit intercourse scene beforehand. Upon peering over the crime scene, Mike’s second in command (Danny) is himself picked off by the Pred, emboldening Mike even further. After attempting a meeting with the second gang’s leader, the soon-to-be late King Willy, Mike’s progress hits a standstill until the Predator strikes once more on a train; killing one member of the team, yet sparing another. The third act opens to Mike discovering the truth behind the Federal involvement, which leads into his first face-to-face skirmish with the Predator. After a long(winded) chase sequence, he happens upon the Predator’s lair wherein the two face off one final **** greatest distinction between the first film and the second is easily the effort (or lack thereof) that went into the human characters. While the first movie featured a number of multidimensional, fleshed out protagonists such as Dutch, Dillon, Billy, and Mac, this iteration’s only memorable character is Mike. The rest of his team are either completely one note, or only given a morsel of relevance after their passing.Another issue that cropped up, thanks largely to how the Predator scenes were framed, is the implausible amount of plot armor it receives. In the first film, the weight of a single bullet wound is expressed well in both tone and motivation (specifically Dutch’s line: “If it bleeds, we can kill it”); yet in this one, we are expected to believe that hundreds of bullets fired off in small rooms never met their mark on an unarmored target. While the scenes still look good for what they are, it just pulls off the mask of immersion bit by bit with each subsequent **** mentioned previously, the biggest detriment that the movie has (outside of personal gripes such as the flippant influx of language and the egregious scene of sensuality) is its waste of an intriguing premise. The detective angle the movie started with could have led to bigger and better payoffs as Mike and his department slowly realize the scale of the threat on their doorstep…but instead the creatives chose the path of “let’s just go mindless action/slasher, have the Predator conveniently teleport to wherever the team happens to be to strike next, and not worry about how little it actually makes sense and what is inevitably lost in the process”.Visually, the Predator and its effects still look as solid as they did in its first outing; there is no denying that. The soundtrack is reasonable considering the atmosphere, though elements like pacing do suffer as the runtime unfolds with more than a fair share of cuttable **** conclusion, “Predator 2” is decently middling. If you are a fan of the genre, then you likely won’t be disappointed by the diminishing effort that went into the story. There is a plethora of gunfights and instances where the Predator gets to showcase its expansive arsenal of lethalities, and Danny Glover’s performance as Mike is as solid as it comes (under the given circumstances). It is just a shame that the overall presentation became muddily likened to many forgettable B-movies of the time that were edgy for the sake of being edgy, rather than building something remarkable upon the impressive foundation the original “Predator” left behind.

A tacky crap sequel. It really was that bad. Sometimes painful to watch other times mildly exciting. There are some cool bits but only cool because of memories of the first film. On the plus - the story keeps moving and rarely pauses with some cool action pieces. One the minus - this is a silly film with many painful moments; this is mainly because of the script I think. A blemish on the memory of the original. On second thoughts, this can be a fun movie even if it is unbelievable.

I was never been a fan of the original 1987 Predator movie, i thought that movie when it hit the action button it was good and entertaining, but when it don't it was boring, but the performances in the first movie was still acceptable, however, here comes the random unnecessary sequel for the film starring Danny Glover, Predator 2, which is the opposite from the first film in terms of the action and the dialogue scene, the action was really boring in this one, and while the dialogue didn't bored me, it still frustrated me because how terrible all the acting was in this movie, it's really poorly acted, also boring story, bad camera work, boring action, it kinda get just a tiny bit entertaining to see how bad it is but then it came back to become this silly, stupid, and dumb boring film, Predator 2 was really some of the stupidest uninteresting silly dumb monster movie full of boredom, it's terrible.

Predator 2 was an awful sequel which was not even needed. It's a very disappointing sequel. It had poorly written storyline and bad cast. For first one hour, this film didn't seem like a horro movie but a gang action movie. There is no thrills, even when the predator is on screen I didn't felt any bit of terror. The performance of Danny Glover as the lead character is also not good (almost bad). This movie should not hav existed. It spoilled all the fun of the original. I am glad they came with Predators (2010) and improved their mistakes. Overall, this is possibly one of the worst sequels I have ever watched and would not recommend it to anyone.