Review of Predator (1987) by Dean K — 25 Aug 2017

This movie is perfect at so many different levels that I will try to point most of them:

First: The beginning of the movie is awesome - simple and powerful at the same time.

Second: The music of the movie is thrilling, manly and penetrating which makes the atmosphere exactly like to be in a dangerous jungle. Every scene has it's own music which makes suspense even better.

Third: The script: to the point and straight forward for the elite squad who are the hunters, until it makes a twist, and when the Predator came they become hunted.

Fourth: The characters are simply perfect and there is no other actors who could play these roles as better as them. The general - excellent, with few lines and exact orders. Dutch - the perfect leader, strong, the biggest of the group, muscular as hell, composed and collected. Dillon - a little smaller than Dutch, cunning and determined to fulfill his own mission, after all succeeded until the moment the Predator came. Anna - great as portraying their prisoner. Mac - the best acting in the movie of all the actors in it, first in the scene where he saw the Predator, second after the shooting and third - his monologue about his buddy Blane. Blane - excluding Dutch, the biggest macho in the squad, and in real life the only actor in the movie who actually experienced war and being a real soldier. Billy - the powerful, big, strange, dark and foreboding Indian with his own code of war. Poncho - tough, almost as the big guys and with great lines in the movie, always helps when it counts. Hawkins - the perfect radio soldier with the sexist jokes to cheer up the others, and he would've been distinctive without his glasses. The Predator - great super tall actor who makes Dutch look small.

Fifth - The effects - way ahead of it's time. Great even watching at 2016. May be the best effects an action movie ever made.

Sixth - The lines - How can you forget: "Get to the chopper!", "If it bleeds we can kill it!", "Any time.", "I ain't got time to bleed", "Stick around", "You're one ugly mother f&ck&r" and many more.

Seventh - The atmosphere of the movie is makes you feel you are one of them or the Predator.

Hence: if you're an Action Sci-Fi Horror fan this is the best movie for you. For me it's the best of all time, because I've watched it more than 500-600 times and still watch it today.