Product description

Predator [1988]

Price: £1.60
RRP: £5.99
Average customer rating: 4.5

Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 5013738151536
Label : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Publisher : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Release date : 1999-10-01
Title : Predator [1988]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Suitable for 18 years and over
Format : Array
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1988-01-01
Running time : 102
Studio : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical releaseDate : 1987-06-12
Number of discs : 1

Editorial reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review
Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of US Army commandos to a remote region of the South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realise that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie's so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

Customer reviews

review by: Author of "The Ingredients of a Good Thriller" date: 2008-09-16 rating:

Top draw mercenary kill festival
This is shooter, a stalker and a top piece of all out action cinema. It's very entertaining, tense and full of destruction. This delivers very, very well indeed.

review by: date: 2008-04-20 rating:

outstanding horror film
This is a classic horror film and is one of my favorite films. Tense, violent, action-packed and superb scenes. The setting is perfect in a lush jungle and the way the suspense slowly builds is brilliantly done, with the predator observing them at first and then picking them off one by one. The battle at the end between Arnie and the predator is really exciting. This is a must-see.

review by: date: 2008-01-21 rating:

Sublime
This is quite simply a stunning piece of entertainment. Fantastic action, suspense, mystery and wonderful, if one dimensional, characters. Some of the imagery is iconic and the Predator, when you see it for the first time, is wierdly magnificent. Of course the story is essentially Alien in the Jungle. Where a group is whittled away one by one by an unseen monster before the last one alive duels with the beast and finally, victorious, makes a peaceful journey away from the carnage towards home. Whatever its ancestry this is a film you'll watch again and again because even when you know what's coming, it's still great.

review by: date: 2008-01-12 rating:

Energetic Sci Fi thriller
Arnold Schwarzenegger (Terminator) stars as Dutch, a soldier sent into an American Jungle on a mission, only to find out that he and his colleagues are being hunted by a mysterious monster.

the film is fast and energetic right from the off with Arnie on top form. the graphics are good and the direction even better with a feeling of isolation and claustrophobia encoded to justify the thriller genre.

there isnt much depth to the characters, there is a sluggish start and the film itself doesnt run for very long but otherwise its a very enjoyable watch and a good sci fi thriller

review by: The Amazon Reviewer date: 2007-12-23 rating:

Survival suspense of the purest kind but let down with a sub standard quality VD.
McTiernan's Predator released in 1987 and has stood the test of time as a Sci-Fi classic. A fitting and elaborate cast (Arnold, Carl Weathers, etc.) help viewers come to grips with the environment of the movie. Silvestri's soundtrack kicks in with excellent timing as do the sound effects which remain crisp and heart-stopping. The cinematography is good and the action scenes are smooth, realistic and fun to watch.

The characters are commandos targeting renegade forces in Central America to rescue a diplomatic hostage. Watching them transcend from macho-man confidence to panicky prey-like paranoia creates a perfect atmosphere for the film, which plays off your imagination until the climax where Dutch, played by Arnold, relies on wit and instinctual strengths to combat the terror at any cost. The effects are impressive and are excitingly original, especially with the creation of such a sophisticated beast as the Predator.

Perhaps what makes the film have a such a raw, earthly quality is its relation to settings of man vs. nature in the modern world. Facing something infinitely more powerful than man is what the story comes down to; perhaps even man can conquer the unknown if he remains true to his natural powers than his ammunition.

Survival suspense of the purest kind but let down with a sub standard quality VD.

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