Predator
1987 · Directed by John McTiernan
An Arnold-led mercenary team in the jungle gets stalked by an invisible alien hunter. Some of the best practical creature design ever filmed. The most-quoted action movie of the eighties not directed by John McTiernan, except this one is.
Why It's Cult
Predator is McTiernan's calling card and the blueprint for fifty subsequent films that aren't as good. The Arnold-Carl Weathers handshake remains one of cinema's most enduring images. Jesse Ventura's chewing-gum line. Bill Duke's "I ain't got time to bleed." The thermal-vision POV reveal. The whole thing is calibrated to a frame. Three years before Red October — three masterpieces in four years from one director, which is unfair to other directors.
The Plot, Officially
A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major "Dutch" Schaefer, are ordered to assist CIA man, Colonel Al Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world.
Starring
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall
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