Predator 2

"Silent. Invisible. Invincible. He’s in town with a few days to kill."

1990 1h 48m EN

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6.3

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36%

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METACRITIC

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6.3

IMDB

★6.3TMDB · 4,042🥫36%Rotten Tomatoes●46Metacritic★6.3IMDB · 199,288

Science FictionActionThriller

Synopsis

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A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

“Silent. Invisible. Invincible. He’s in town with a few days to kill.”

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Cast

Danny Glover
Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
Gary Busey
Peter Keyes
Rubén Blades
Danny Archuleta
María Conchita Alonso
Leona Cantrell
Bill Paxton
Jerry Lambert
Robert Davi
Captain Phil Heinemann
Adam Baldwin
Garber
Kevin Peter Hall
The Predator

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writers: Peter Ramsey, Jim Thomas, John Thomas
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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36 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

CINEMA

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Part of the "Predator Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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3 / 8

CAST

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322+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Stephen Hopkins, shot by Peter Levy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Alan Silvestri. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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6 / 8

ERA

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Editor Mark Goldblatt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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7 / 8

CAST

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Danny Glover and Gary Busey and Rubén Blades carry the top of the cast.

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8 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "Silent. Invisible. Invincible. He’s in town with a few days to kill.".

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Stephen Hopkins directs. Peter Levy behind the camera. Alan Silvestri scores. Mark Goldblatt cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

136 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Part of the "Predator Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3322+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
4Directed by Stephen Hopkins, shot by Peter Levy. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Alan Silvestri. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Mark Goldblatt shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Danny Glover and Gary Busey and Rubén Blades carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "Silent. Invisible. Invincible. He’s in town with a few days to kill.".
9IMDB entry: tt0100403 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 9 themes, including "predator", "war on drugs", "extraterrestrial technology", "sequel".
11Released under 14 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Peter Levy
Original score: Alan Silvestri
Editing: Mark Goldblatt
Production design: Lawrence G. Paull
Costume design: Marilyn Vance
Makeup / hair: Paul Abascal
VFX supervisor: Robert Grasmere
Sound: Jason King
Stunt coordinator: Gary Davis
Runtime: 108 min · 1h 48m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.78:1 (16:9)
Status: Released
Budget: $35,000,000
Box office: $57,120,318
Return: 163% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Predator 2 (1990)
Rotten Tomatoes: 36% 🥫 Rotten
Metacritic: 46/100
IMDB rating: 6.3/10 · 199,288 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

1 win & 4 nominations total

Part of

Predator Collection

A science fiction action film series centered on a warrior class extraterrestrial species with technologically advanced weaponry that travel to Earth to trophy hunt human beings.

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Stephen Hopkins

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John Chard2014-09-06
★ 8/10
Very undervalued sequel suffering because of the first films success. Los Angeles is imploding with mayhem as gang wars fill the streets, an under pressure police force try to restore order, but both parties have another foe to worry about, a Predator is in town, and he's about to up the ante. Gone is Arnold Schwarzenegger, gone is John McTiernan, and gone is the jungle setting, so following in the foot steps of the ultimate beefcake movie that was Preadtor 1987 was an unenviable task it seems. Yet I personally feel that Predator 2 stands up to scrutiny as a fine entry into the sci-fi/action genre. Locating it among the urban decay of L.A. works real well, and pitting the Predator against a tough grizzled (but hardly giganticus beefcakeus) cop (Danny Glover) gives us a smart brains against brawn story. Also cutely is that director Stephen Hopkins and writers Jim & John Thomas have actually got the Predator cleaning up the streets of L.A., in fact another two hours of Predator hunt and kill tactics and crime in L.A. would have been completely eradicated! There is plenty of bloody snotty gore to appease fans of that persuasion, and it's nice to report that the characters on show do actually impact as part of the story. Voodoo magic man! It has a fine cast that reads like a who's who of action films, Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon), Bill Paxton (Aliens), Robert Davi (Die Hard), Gary Busey (Under Siege), Rubén Blades (Once Upon a Time in Mexico) & Maria Conchita Alonso (The Running Man), whilst Kevin Peter Hall dons the Predator suit and suitably kicks arse again. It's not genius, it's not even ground breaking, but Predator 2 is a fine and entertaining genre piece that sadly seems to forever be undervalued on internet forums. Who's Next? 8/10
Gimly2018-03-19
★ 5/10
When I was younger I always hated Predator 2. Rewatching it as an adult, I don't think it was fair how bad I thought it was. It's not that Predator 2 is crap, it's just that it's so much worse than the original (one of the 5 best movies ever made), that it comes across as such a massive disappointment. With fresh, or I guess more accurately, with more experienced eyes, I don't mind Predator 2 at all, there's actually a lot of stuff I like about it. It's still not a great movie to me, but I don't skip it when I'm doing a marathon like I would have once upon a time. It expands upon the Predator lore in some pretty cool ways, and the Jamaican Voodoo Posse inspired my Escher Necromunda gang, so I've wound up pretty 50/50 on the whole thing. Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
CinemaSerf2022-04-16
★ 5/10
So for the sequel, we swap an actual jungle for an urban one, and Arnie is replaced by Danny Glover. At least the baddie is the same - only this time, we immediately know what's going on and what to expect. Therein lies the problem: there is no suspense. A seriously B-list group of talent - Gary Busey ("Keyes") and Adam Baldwin ("Garber") amongst them, really help this descend quickly into a pit of mediocre special effects tinged with Glover's rather typical way of playing cop. It doesn't hang around, to be fair - there are plenty of combat scenes; and Sylvia Saunders ("Ruth") looks like she could be lethal with a broom, but by the end, I was fairly sure I was in the visitor's camp because this just isn't very good.