Take a simple premise, add some budget, bind it together with some good old-fashioned decent film-making, and the result is a timeless classic. The plot can be compared to countless B-movies throughout the years, but what worked for Alien also works for Predator. With the group being picked off one by one by this formidable enemy, Schaefer must get to the extraction point before he becomes another skull in the beast's growing collection of trophies. Yet this is far from their biggest problem, as on their tail is an alien with the ability to camouflage itself and see with thermal imaging, backed by an arsenal of powerful extra-terrestrial gadgets and a healthy appetite for the hunt. As the team venture further into the jungle, it becomes clear that Dillon isn't telling the whole story, and the mission becomes even more difficult when they capture a female hostage named Anna (Elpidia Carrillo).

Schaefer and his team - played by Bill Duke, Jesse Ventura, Sonny Landham, Richard Chaves and Shane Black - are met by Schaefer's old Army buddy Dillon (Carl Weathers), and the two greet each other in the most 80s way possible by flexing their oiled and oversized muscles in a manly handshake. Special Forces major Dutch Schaefer (Schwarzenegger) is 'choppahed' into South America, where is he given a mission to rescue an official who has fallen into the hands of some insurgents. McTiernan knows exactly how to tear a jungle apart with gunfire, and set up his disposable supporting characters for a grisly death. The premise is almost offensively simple, but the execution makes this one of the most effortlessly enjoyable action movies of the 1980s. This was long before the Austrian hulk made a swerve into politics and became the self-parody he is today. Predator is now held in as equally high regard as McTiernan's other action classic Die Hard - released the following year - and featured Arnold Schwarzenegger at the very top of his game. Critics savaged the film, although now even the stuffiest of critics cannot deny its shamelessly muscly, bullet-spraying, blood-spattering charm. Reviewed by tomgillespie2002 8 / 10 One of the most effortlessly enjoyable action movies of the 80sģ1 years after its original release, it's hard to believe that there was once a time when John McTiernan's Predator wasn't revered as one of the best action movies of the modern era. This deception turns out to be the least of their worries though, when they find themselves being methodically hunted by something not of this world. Not long after they land, Dutch and his team discover that they have been sent in under false pretenses. A team of special force ops, led by a tough but fair soldier, Major 'Dutch' Schaefer, are ordered to assist CIA man, Colonel Al Dillon, on a rescue mission for potential survivors of a Helicopter downed over remote South American jungle.

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