Predator

Love this movie. and a great rental price.

This one was/is a classic man's testosterone movie 🎬. It has some moments that just clicks with how to make 😀 and holler for a great battle of man and the unknown.

This movie spawned an entire series. That series has horrible chapters and excellent ones. This one has become a classic among action movies, sci-fi, and Arnold fans. Arnold's characters was named Dutch. He leads an elite military squad. So elite that they could choose which missions they accepted, and could disobey orders without extreme consequences. They were trained to be completely lethal, but they weren't assassins. They were a rescue squad, capable of eliminating anything between them and who they were sent to save. The Predator is a fascinating alien, both physically and mentally. He's a reptilian humanoid. His eyes are nothing like human, he sees the world through thermographic vision. His psyche is that of a hunter and a warrior. Humans are his prey of choice. His primary weapons are wrist mounted blades and energy weapons. He also had a cloaking technology, that makes him nearly invisible to human eyes. He appears as nothing but shimmering or rippling image. As Dutch's team moves through the jungle, they're hunted by the predator. They faced something that didn't exist in their training. As the hunt continued, their conditioned responses deteriorated. One by one they reverted to their natural/individual states. Mac had a complete break down. He chased the Predator into the jungle, while screaming maniacally. Dillon overcame his CIA training, and remembered how to care about people - he went to save Mac. Confronted by the Predator, he found redemption and died with honor. Billy eventually stopped running. He drew a large knife waited for the Predator. He died standing tall and strong. Dutch was far more than a trained fighter, he was a natural Warrior. He lead the Predator away from the few survivors and then found a way to block the Predator's vision. He staked out a part of the jungle, and outfitted it with a variety of traps. Then attached grenades to a spear and arrow. Once his chosen battle ground was ready, he lured the Predator to him. On arrival the Predator found himself being hunted. Dutch hit him with both grenades, which knocked out the cloaking shield and left him bleeding. The Predator eventually cornered Dutch, and appraised him thoroughly. Then he removed his energy weapons and his mask. The final battle wasn't hunter and prey. It was Warrior to Warrior - Face to Face. When lethally wounded the Predator activated a self destruct device. No one in the audience ever forgets when the count down was initiated. The Predator's laugh is burned into the memory of every fan.

Great movie

Now few may know this, but before Arnold Swarzenegger became `The Govenator' of California, he actually starred in a score of action films. It's true! Predator (1987), directed by John McTiernan, whose next film would be the hugely successful Die Hard (1988), solidifying his status as the director with the most machismo in Hollywood, stars the great lumpy one (Ahnold), although not quite as lumpy as he was in his first major action film, Conan the Barbarian (1982), along with Carl Weathers (Apollo Creed from the Rocky films), Jesse `The Body soon to be governor of Minnesota' Ventura, Bill Duke (he also appeared with Arnold in the mindless 1985 action flick Commando), and Sonny Landham (Billy Bear in the popular 1982 Eddie Murphy film 48 Hrs.). There are a few others, but these are main players...along with the Predator, played by the colossal 7'2'' Kevin Peter Hall, who passed away in 1991. As the film begins, we learn some gooberment officials have been captured as their chopper (that's the cool way of saying helicopter, in case you didn't know) has been shot down in some unfriendly country, which, I believe, is somewhere in South America, but they never really specify. Maj. George Dillon (Weathers) calls in a group that specializes in rescuing captures officials, dignitaries, and so on, lead by Maj. 'Dutch' Schaeffer (Swarzenegger). Among his team are Sgt. 'Mac' Eliot (Duke), Blain (Ventura), who carries one of the biggest guns I've ever seen, and Billy (Landham), along with a couple others. The mission? Go in and rescue the missing men...or so it seems, as later we find out that Dillon knows more than he's letting on, but whatever...the group, with Dillon tagging along supposedly in command, enter the jungle, find the downed chopper, and make some horrific discoveries in that another team had been sent in prior to this one, a highly trained military unit, and only their `skinned' corpses remain. Now, it's never made clear whether Dutch's group is actually in the military, or an ex-military group for hire, or mercenaries. Dutch claims they only do rescue missions, which would seem to indicate they are no longer in the military, as you don't really get to pick and choose your missions, but his men still refer to him as `Major' so I don't know...I guess it doesn't matter...as they travel deeper into the nasty, hot jungle, we get the impression they are being tracked. They find and neutralize the enemy camp, and Dillon's true motives are revealed. This soon becomes a moot point, as they team begins to lose members one by one as a unseen hostile force starts picking them off. As they race back to a safe point for extraction (the choppers won't venture in too far as the area is now `hot', which I took to mean the group's presence is known, and unfriendly soldiers are now swarming, looking for this small band), they begin to understand what they're up against is more than they ever could have bargained for, as the elite team of fighters becomes fodder for something not of this Earth. If you are looking for sweaty muscle men with big guns, then you've found your Nirvana here. The characters never really reach much more than a two-dimensional level, but that's of little consequence, as the name of the game is guns shooting, things blowing up, and pretty much non-stop action. I swear, I think this film has the most gunfire of just about any movie I've seen, and I've seen lots of them. Ventura's character actually walks around with a Gatling gun, which looks uber-cool, but hardly the type of ordinance I'd take on a covert rescue mission. If you don't know what a Gatling gun is, it usually consists of about six barrels or ten barrels mounted in a revolving frame and fires about 320 rounds a minute. Overkill? Maybe, but when it comes to the Predator, they don't hit much. The battle scenes are exciting, as they're filmed in such a way that puts the viewer into the action, rather than just watching it from the safety of your funky couch. The dialog may evoke a fair deal of wincing, as it's chock full of macho witticisms, a few examples being, "If it bleeds, we can kill it", or, when a character gets his arm grazed with a bullet, another character says, "You're bleeding!", to which the injured character replies, "I ain't got time to bleed". If it had been me, I probably would have been on the ground, crying, but then I'm neither cool or battle-harden like the characters in the film. The Predator costume looks very good, despite the age of the film and the technological advances since, so much credit goes to special effects artist extraordinaire Stan Winston. All in all, Predator is fairly pure actioneer, with a dose of science fiction and a dollop of horror (the skinned bodies...). The film and it's makers know what it is, and there's very little pretense to make it anything more than that. The wide screen picture looks about as good as it's going to get, and does show some minor flaws, but the audio seems to have been remastered for a DTS soundtrack as well as a Dolby Digital 5.1. There's scads of extras, including a commentary track by the director, text commentary, a making of documentary titled "If it bleeds, we can kill it", a section titled `Inside the Predator' which is broken up into seven featurettes proving a great amount of detail, a Predator special effects section with five featurettes, a few deleted scenes and outtakes, a Predator profile, a photo gallery, and even a few Easter Eggs (hidden features) scattered about. Is this two disc set the definitive Predator edition? I suppose so, that is until another one comes out, like they did with Terminator 2. (It's definitive for me as it's more than I ever wanted or needed) Cookieman108

You all know the film. It's brilliant. Thankfully the 4k edition is the best version I have seen. The last blu ray was terribly over-digitised and some skin (especially a particular scene with Carl Withers) looked almost plastic. The 4k transfer remians faithful to the original film (which was shot in 35mm). If I have a minor criticism it would be the colouring is a little lighter and maybe lacks a bit of depth but you could probably fix that with your tv settings. Remember, you're not getting a film shot in 4k so don't expect insanely high resolutions but it is faithful to the original with some impressive tweaks without being intrusive. For instance, you no longer see Carl Wither's real arm underneath the prosthetic stump which used to annoy me.

Very very good ! Highly recommend amd ive purchased other things that were successful amd good condition quick to arrive! 5 stars !!!

Great science fiction movie.

Super contente nickel

Vale muito a pena pegar essa edição importada do México. Um filme que envelheceu bem, não ficou datado, os efeitos especiais, os efeitos práticos, um talentosíssimo elenco, direção, fizeram deste filme o melhor da franquia Predador. Os bônus deste filme são um show á parte, com um vasto material áudio visual, que não é encontrado em outras edições deste filme. O BD entrega uma imagem excelente, de alta resolução e nitidez.