Review of Predator 2 (1990) by Andrew U — 23 Jun 2009
Predator 2 doesn't really have much to do with the original flick, aside from the alien. This time a new Predator (remember, Arnie beat the crap out of the other one until it nuked itself) has come to L.
A. and decides to hunt some humans during the hottest summer in the city's history. The movie is set in the "future" of LA, 1997, where rival drug gangs run rampant and the city is basically a war zone.
Enter Danny Glover as a cop in the middle of the rival gang wars, and when drug lords start to turn up dead and skinned (on both sides of the war), they know something is up. There really isn't any meat (pun not intended) to this sequel.
It's bigger, louder, hipper, and more "mass-market". It's a shallow excuse to bring back the alien, but at the same time doesn't capture the same cheesy thrill that the original had.
Sure, main characters are picked off one by one by the Predator here, but the deaths are spread out much further than in the original movie or even Aliens. Predator 2 does do a bit more to expand the "franchise" by showing more of the alien's cool gadgets, a U.
S. military splinter cell that is hunting the beast, and even the Predator's ship. Of course, that one scene inside the ship spawned a whole new franchise as an Alien skull can be seen in the trophy case.
This review of Predator 2 (1990) was written by Andrew U on 23 Jun 2009.
Predator 2 has generally received mixed reviews.
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