Predator Review

Predator

Release Date: 20th August 1987 - Australia

Production Companies
Amercent Films
American Entertainment Partners L.P.
Davis Entertainment
Lawrence Gordon Productions
Silver Pictures
20th Century Fox Film
Corporation

Distribution
20th Century Fox Australia


Genre: Sci-Fi/Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 107 minutes


Budget: $18,000,000

Box Office Gross: $98,268,458 (Worldwide)

 
Plot Summary
A seasoned paramilitary

rescue unit led by Major

Dutch Schaefer is looking for hostages held captive by guerrilla fighters in the Central American jungle. At first, while it seems like a successful mission, something horrifying and inexplicable is about to happen. One by one, the men get hunted down by an enemy unimaginably more deadly than any in this world!

Cast
Arnold Schwarzenegger - Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
Carl Weathers - George Dillon
Elpidia Carrillo - Anna
Bill Duke - Mac Eliot
Jesse Ventura - Blain Cooper
Sonny Landham - Billy Sole
Richard Chaves - Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez
Shane Black - Rick Hawkins
R. G. Armstrong - Major General Homer Phillips
Kevin Peter Hall - The
Predator/Helicopter Pilot
Peter Cullen - The Predator (Voice) (Uncredited)

Crew

Director - John McTiernan

Writer/Executive Producer - Jim Thomas

Writer - John Thomas
Associate Producer/
Production Designer - John Vallone
Associate Producer/
Production Manager/First Assistant Director -

Beau Marks
Executive Producer - Laurence Pereira

Producers - Lawrence Gordon,

Joel Silver and John Davis
Technical Advisor - Gary Goldman
Casting Director - Jackie Burch

Art Directors - Frank Richwood

and Jorge Sainz

Set Decorator - Enrique Estévez

Costume Designer - Marilyn Vance

Creature Creator - Stan Winston
Makeup Designer and Creator - Scott H. Eddo

Mud Makeup - Jeff Dawn

Director of Photography - Donald McAlpine

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Frank E. Johnson

Director of Photography: Mexico -

León Sánchez

First Camera Assistant/Steadicam Operator -

Robert Agganis

Thermal Camera: Second Unit - David Eggby

Unit Managers - Anna Roth and Antonio Rubio

Second Assistant Directors - J. Tom Archuleta

and K.C. Colwell
Second Unit Director/Stunt Coordinator -

Craig R. Baxley

Special Effects Supervisors - Laurencio Cordero

and Al Di Sarro

Art Department Coordinator/Concept Artist:

Creature Effects Unit - Steve Wang

Art Department Coordinators: Creature

Effects Unit - Matt Rose and Shannon Shea

Mechanical Department: Creature Effects

Unit - David Kindlon, Richard J. Landon,

Brent Scrivner and Wayne Sturm

Visual Effects Supervisors - Michael Bigelow
and Joel Hynek

Visual Effects Producer - Robert M. Greenberg
Visual Consultant - Richard Greenberg

Design Consultant - Jeff Burks

Thermal Vision Effects Supervisor -

Stuart Robertson

Editors - Mark Helfrich and John F. Link

Assistant Film Editors - Kimberley Bennett,

Bryan H. Carroll, Mark Elson, Julie Feiner,

Carol Fitzgerald, Rudy Freeman,

John Henzel, William J. Meshover

and Willie Navarro

Supervising Sound Effects Editors -

Richard L. Anderson and David E. Stone

Special Sound Effects - John Pospisil

Special Vocalisation - Peter Cullen

Re-Recording Mixers - Don J. Bassman,

Kevin F. Cleary and Richard Overton

Foley Artists - Vanessa Theme Ament

and Robin Harlan

Music - Alan Silvestri


Awards

1988 Academy Awards
Best Visual Effects - Joel Hynek, Robert M. &

Richard Greenberg and Stan Winston (Nominated)


Review
PREDATOR may sound scary, but it is an action-packed sci-fi film with surprises. The movie mixes the two genres and has an engaging and suspenseful plot. It had groundbreaking visual effects and explosive action sequences. Arnold Schwarzenegger did a terrific job with his acting performance because he is my all-time favourite actor. It is the second time I have seen Chubbs. Oops! I mean, the character played by Carl Weathers gets killed off, the first being Happy Gilmore, and I love the quote by Arnie, "GET TO THE CHOPPER!"

Quite well put, I describe this movie in only one word. SPECTACULAR. It is a timeless movie that, even with age, will not be boring and unwatchable, especially for those who are once too young to watch the PREDATOR films.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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