Predator (film)
1987
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Mar 1, 2020 · 70K views 4 years ago. Harrigan hears the ship starting up and runs out to cover just before the blast from the engines fills the cavern. As the dust- and soot-covered Harrigan walks out of a...
Predator 2 - Official® Trailer [HD] - YouTube. TrailersPlaygroundHD. 99.8K subscribers. Subscribed. 593. 188K views 10 years ago. Release Date: November 21, 1990 Lt. Harrigan (Danny Glover) is...
Jun 19, 2010 · 1.2M views 13 years ago. Second theatrical trailer for the 1990 film "Predator 2." Starring Danny Glover, Gary Busey, María Conchita Alonso, Ruben Blades, Bill Paxton, Calvin Lockhart, Kevin...
Danny Glover battles the camouflaged alien predator when it arrives in inner-city L.A.--and uses the city as a private hunting preserve. 4,819 IMDb 6.3 1 h 44 min 1990. X-Ray HDR UHD R. Science Fiction · Horror · Malicious · Scary. Available to rent or buy.
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In 1997, Los Angeles is experiencing a heat wave and a turf war occurs between heavily armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator watches a shootout between the police, Jamaicans, and Colombians, observing as Lieutenant Michael R. Harrigan charges into the firefight to rescue two wounded officers and drive the Colombians back into their ...
Danny Glover as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan, an LAPD Officer who is investigating rival Jamaican and Colombian drug cartels. He is stubborn and often is criticized by the superior officers for not obe...Kevin Peter Hall as City Hunter / The Predator, a member of an alien warrior race that hunts aggressive members of other species for sport, uses active camouflage and a plasma weapon, and can see i...Gary Busey as Special Agent Peter Keyes, posed as a DEA agent leading a special task force investigating a drug conspiracy as a cover for his attempts to capture the Predator. The character is a re...Once 20th Century Fox approached Predator screenwriters Jim and John Thomas to write a sequel, they pitched six ideas, one of which was "putting the creature in an urban jungle", which the studio liked. The eventual setting was Los Angeles, blighted by gang warfare during a severe heat wave, creating the ideal "hot spot" in which the Predator hunts...
Alan Silvestri returned to score the sequel, conducting the Skywalker Symphony Orchestra. Whereas the first film did not have its music released until years later, a soundtrack album for the sequel was issued on December 11, 1990, from Varèse Sarabande. On December 1, 2014, the label issued Predator 2: The Deluxe Edition.
Home media
Predator 2 was released on VHS and LaserDisc in 1991, on DVD in 2003, a two-disc special edition in January 2005, on Blu-ray on June 9, 2009, in North America,and 4K UHD Blu-Ray on August 7, 2018.
Box office
Released on November 21, 1990, Predator 2 was #4 at the US box office in its opening weekend, with a gross of over $8 million behind the films Dances with Wolves, Three Men and a Little Lady, Rocky V, and Twentieth Century Fox's own film Home Alone. The film grossed a total of $57 million, $30 million of which was from the United States. The worldwide box office revenue totaled $57,120,318 in ticket sales. The film became the lowest-grossing film in the Predatorfranchise.
Critical response
In 1990, the film's reviews were generally negative, though reviewers were generally impressed by the casting of Danny Glover as an action hero. On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, the film received an approval rating of 30% based on 37 reviews, with an average rating of 5/10. The site's consensus states: "The thrill of the hunt is gone in this hackneyed sequel." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 46 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average...
Legacy
Several retrospective reviews have considered the film underrated, and it has gained a cult following.[b] Later, director Stephen Hopkins said: "It's so over the top. I just sort of went for it and made the biggest, boldest, loudest movie I could make. I was only 29 years old – I was like a rampant child, running around Los Angeles, blowing the shit out of everything and making things as bloody as possible." About the modest reception at the box office and the cult status since its release, h...
A third main film titled Predators was released in 2010. A fourth, The Predator in 2018, is set between the events of Predator 2 and Predators. A prequel titled Preywas released in 2022, which takes place in 1719. A novelization written by Simon Hawke was released on December 1, 1990, by the publishing company Jove. It briefly covers the fate of Du...
Predator 2 at IMDbPredator 2 at AllMovieNov 21, 1990 · 3 1. 3 Videos. 99+ Photos. Action Horror Sci-Fi. The Predator returns to Earth, this time to stake a claim on the war-torn streets of a dystopian Los Angeles. Director. Stephen Hopkins. Writers. Jim Thomas. John Thomas. Stars. Danny Glover. Gary Busey. Kevin Peter Hall. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. RENT/BUY. from $3.79. search Amazon.
Los Angeles is enduring a heat wave and a crime wave, so the pressure on police officer Michael Harrigan (Danny Glover) to solve a strange string of murders is mounting.
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