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 enlarge | Director: Stephen Hopkins
Actors: Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Kevin Peter Hall, Ruben Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso
Studio: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
Category: DVD
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Rating:  176 reviews
Sales Rank: 17095
Format: Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.7 x 0.6
MPN: FOXD2226108D
UPC: 024543161073
EAN: 0024543161073
ASIN: B0006BGWR8
Theatrical Release Date: November 21, 1990
Release Date: January 25, 2005
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 Rumble in the concrete jungle May 27, 2008
Nuisance (Miami)
I remember when I first saw Predator 2 I was blown away. Not many sequels can be as great as their predecessors but Predator 2 was just as exciting as the first one.
Premise: Predator stalks it's prey in Los Angeles right in the middle of a gang war between a Hispanic gang and a Jamaican gang. Lt. Harrigan(Danny Glover) investigate the bizarre murders of these gang members while a special agent named Keyes(Gary Busey) plans to capture the Predator to study it.
Opinion: Predator 2 is an action packed ride with a few flaws. The only person you get to know is the hot-headed Harrigan. Everybody else in the movie comes and goes. Danny's anger is over the top sometimes. But the the storyline is decent and Harrigan stood his ground and fought Predator to a standstill like Dutch did without getting a royal buttkicking like Dutch got. The best scene would have to be where Predator wreaks havoc in the subway train. Predator 2 was trying to be its own story not copy of the original. And for those of you bashed it because of Roger Ebert lets not forget that he gave Rocky And Bullwinkle, Blair Witch Project, Indecent Proposal, Cheaper By The Dozen 2, Conan The Destroyer, Spun and hold your breath Speed 2 and Home Alone 3 thumbs up! Think about that next time you blindly accept his opinion at face value. At any rate, if you are looking for a great sequel Predator 2 will not dissapoint.
 Not a great effort! April 6, 2008
D. Barter (Phippsburg, Me United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This was not a great effort at trying to reproduce the same feel of the first Predator. Danny Glover makes a good cop but not a good action hero.
Hokey, poorly written and acted, but enjoyable enough March 27, 2008
abettertomorrow
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Predator 2 is basically a remake of Predator, only set in Los Angeles. The two films follow the same exact story structure, with the Predator killing people without them knowing, and with one guy finally catching on and defeating the Predator in a climactic one-on-one battle.
Stephen Hopkin's direction, while not on par with McTiernan's, is intense and exciting enough to keep the viewer interested. Unfortunately, the script by the Thomas Brothers is...terrible. Not as terrible as AvP Requiem's, but bad enough to induce some cringing at the dialogue. Danny Glover gives a decent performance as the unlikely hero, Lt. Harrigan, but everyone else is just reading off of note cards (not that they had much to work with anyway). Many of the characters, like Tony Pope and Jerry Lambert, are just plain dumb and obnoxious.
Thankfully, the effects work by Stan Winston, is, as usual, fantastic. The Predator itself looks great, and Kevin Peter Hall gives a very different performance from the first film. While the first Predator was smart and stealthy, this Predator is arrogant, showy, and pretty much out of control. When Harrigan finally defeats it using its own weapons, you can't help but applaud.
In short, Predator 2 is great for fans and okay for everyone else. It's not original, innovative, clever, or even all that GOOD, but it's more enjoyable than most sci-fi action movies.
One of the best Sci-Fi creatures of all time takes center stage. January 5, 2008
Matthew J. Barba
This movie is obviously not as classic a film as Predator 1, but if you were a fan of the creature, it more than satisfied the desire to see more of this strange creatures methods and mayhem. This movie is pretty violent and curse-laden even by today's standards, even the two AvsP films seem tame in comparison to this. It establishes a really cool backstory to what the Predator actually is and for some reason you just end up loving them and not despising them as an evil heartless killing machine. Check your brain at the door and you'll love this movie.
Bad Bad Hunters What you going to do when the Come for you January 3, 2008
Jarrett P. Suhr (Fortlaterdale , Florida, USA)
Bad Bad Hunters What you going to do when the Come for you.
A review of Predator II
This is Jarrett Suhr again aka Narku Junior, and before that AKA Slagar the Cruel. The first time they visited the earth a single life form wipe out all but three survivors of and elite crew and a crew of marines from the previous encounter. The predators are back again this time there stalking in new hunting grounds right smack in the city of Los Angeles. This time it's up to young black action hero Danny Glover know for his action pack shooter thrilled lethal weapons and it three sequels. In an earlier version of the script was original supposed to star Arnold Swartznager and Danny Glover together. Unfortunately at the same time the second terminator was in the process of being written so make a long story short Arnold turned down predator II instead chose to work on the second Terminator instead. What you get is action pack sequel that takes place right in the middle of a vicious drug war which last about the first 20 to 45 minutes of the movie then disapates. It has been teen years since the first movie. The movie was hot in 1990 takers place in 1997 about ten years after the last incipient. Can the young Danny Glover stop this deadly foe and his new weaponry include a deadly bus saw like boomerang weapon or will La be turned into a pill of rumbled and lifeless mutilated corpses. Find out in the thrilling conclusion. This movie is not recommend for those under the age of 17 or from Jamaica, Porto Rico, Africa because of gang violence and creature violence, gory and disturbing images dark religious and spiritual content and one or two parts of brief adult sexual content and a lot of use of the F words and other really bad profanity. If you like this and 17 or older the alien movies and the two AVP movies once the second one is release later this year will be right up you alley.
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