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Its simplicity gives it a clockwork-like quality that is hard to find nowadays there are buff military dudes executing a high-stakes mission deep into a Central American rainforest, and an advanced adversary from outer space starts picking them off, one by one. Despite several production-related hurdles, the sci-fi horror flick found great success and is widely regarded to this day as one of the best American action movies ever. Up-and-coming action director John McTiernan and rising star Arnold Schwarzenegger knocked it out of the park in 1987 with an action-packed monster feature penned by Jim and John Thomas. Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall.

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The worst part? It hasn’t received a wide theatrical release despite surviving the Disney-Fox merger, so catch it on Hulu (U.S.) or Disney Plus (international territories). This one is an almost perfect Predator movie, a great mid-sized summer blockbuster, and definitive proof that there’s plenty of green blood left in the franchise.

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As a feral Predator visits Earth for the first time, a vicious game of cat and mouse begins between the two, and dynamics shift several times over the course of an impressive movie that harnesses the spark of the first two movies and then does its own thing, both narratively and formally. Set in the Great Plains in 1719, the movie follows Naru, a young Comanche woman trying to prove herself as a worthy warrior and hunter. Unsurprisingly, the cat got out of the bag before shooting even began, but that didn’t make its premise any less interesting. In fact, the original plan was to market the movie (temporarily titled Skulls) as an original story up to a certain point close to its release.

Cast: Amber Midthunder, Dakota Beavers, Dane DiLiegroĪfter more than 30 years, the solo Predator franchise dared to escape modern-day settings and went back in time to tell a simple but highly effective tale of survival that happens to feature a Predator.

However, there are some sincerely cool action scenes in there, and it’s hard to cover up its key role in defrosting both franchises on the big screen. The jumpy pacing and the watered-down violence (it’s the only PG-13 movie across both franchises) threaten to sink the entire ship. Shane Salerno’s script (he also penned the sequel) is filled with utterly disposable characters outside of Sanaa Lathan’s riff on Ellen Ripley, Machiko Noguchi (the protagonist of the original AvP comics) and Lance Henriksen’s attention-grabbing Charles Weyland, founder of the infamous company from the future-set Alien movies. While this first live-action encounter between the two legendary alien species is undeniably fun and definitely exists in the “better half” of Anderson’s filmography, it’s hard to embrace it as an actually good flick. Anderson (Event Horizon, Resident Evil) at the helm.

Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance HenriksenĪfter a failed AvP project which was developed in the 90s, the long-awaited crossover finally took off in the early 2000s with trashy but economically reliable director Paul W.S.I get the animals had to be CGI for obvious reasons, but some of it is so Video Game-like it's laughable. The CGI is mediocre at best, and I can really do without it. Fans of the franchise will appreciate the nods to the original, the variety of weapons, and the gruesome kills. Stunning visuals, great cinematography, and some pretty solid action scenes (even if it is just the predator beating down on whatever is in front of him). The director manages the film at a fast yet reasonable pace, even for the 1 hour 40 minute run time I was never bored. I wish they would have developed some of the other characters more even if they're just there to be slaughtered by Predator. Amber Midthunder did an amazing job point blank, and also a big shoutout to Dakota Beavers who was probably my favorite character in the entire movie. I know that might turn off a lot of English speaking people (myself included) but the dialogue really shines through in the all Comanche version.

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I've watched Prey twice over the weekend, once in English and the second time in full on Comanche.