Zen Never understood why this was not liked - it has a 25% score on RT, come on!!The acting is the first thing that gets you. Glover and Busey, then Paxton and of course the great Kevin Peter Hall.Then the mystery. They reveal just enough so you don't know what's happening but still get into the story and never lose attention. Some of the quotes are iconic; like mentioned by the other reviews: "Danny boy", "Do you want some candy", "I don't think he gives a $hit", "You can't see the eyes of the demon, until him come callin'", "Lions! Tigers! Bears! Oh my!", etc...And there are the weapons, that flying homing Discus grinder thing, or the folding javelin, or the cutting net. oh my!

NateWatchesCoolMovies Predator 2 is a gem of a film, and don't let anyone ever try and convince you otherwise. It's just so different and so much crazier than the first that I think people had a knee jerk 'wtf' reaction and panned it. It's tough to top the sheer bombastic overdrive of the first one, which is considered a classic, but if anything the sequel switched the nitrous dial past maximum and blasts off into the stratosphere of excessive R rated chaos, an impressive feat. It also switches settings, from the sweaty jungles of South America to the equally sweaty and opulent grime of the urban jungle, namely Los Angeles of the future, bursting at the seams with so many over the top criminals and hectic, delirious violence that by the time the Predators show up they not only fit in, but seem relatively sane compared to everyone else. Seriously, every human character in this film is a coked up tornado of cartoonish energy and brashness it's hard to keep up unless you've hoovered up a few rails yourself prior to sitting down and popping in the blu ray (the blu ray of this is wicked by the way, gorgeous transfer). So get this: Danny Glover, before he got too old for this sh*t, basically serves as a renegade SuperCop in this hellhole of a metropolis, waging all out war on loads of feral gang members and degenerates, constantly leaned on by the obligatory pain in the ass of a police commissioner (Robert Davi, god bless his republican ass) and backed up by a team of state of the art badasses, including Aliens's Bill Paxton, who gets all the best lines and delivers them with the gusto the material deserves. He's also backed by Ruben Blades and tough girl Maria Conchita Alonso, whose appearance and scenes with Paxton call to mind him and Jannette Goldstein side by side in Aliens, or is that just the fanboy in me having an aneurysm? Together they achieve 80's action movie squad goals by messily wiping out as much of the criminal faction in the city as they can, including weird Rastafarian crime lord King Willie (Calvin Lockhart, spooky as all hell), until something else comes along. Something they can't see, hear, or easily empty clips at whilst cheerfully spewing profanity. The predators have branched out, and this time there's more than one, giving their inherent tactical nature a whole new twist. So who better to take on these extraterrestrial game wardens? Glover of course, who positively froths at the mouth. You know you're overacting when Gary Busey has to keep up with you, and he does his loony best as some hush hush Fed who has been keeping tabs on the Preds for sometime, and has big notions of taking them down. It's all in good fun, with jaw dropping, spectacularly brutal set pieces, violence that would not go over well these days (the 80's didn't give a f*ck, man) and a seriously chaotic vibe humming through the whole breathless ordeal. I'd even be so bold as to say that this is the better of the two Predator films, upon getting all misty eyed and craving a rewatch after writing this. Go ahead, shame me. It's just too great of a flick to be as under appreciated as it is. Oh, and watch for a sly cameo from another otherworldly baddie late in the third act.

John austin The producers of Predator 2 went out of their way to produce a sequel that would be bigger, louder & even more egregiously violent than the original Predator, and they largely succeeded, especially on that last point.This one takes places on the chaotic streets of Los Angeles in the midst of a violent drug war between Mexican drug gangs and the Jamaican Voodoo Posse with another alien predator stalking for human trophies. Danny Glover is a veteran cop who chases down the predator and gets crossed with Gary Busey who plays a government agent who's following the predator for his own purposes. Busey had not yet gone mad at this point and was doing a real good job in these starched up villain roles, like this movie & Lethal Weapon.Good cast, good script and good production makes this a much better than average sequel and a film that's far better than the other predator and AVP sequels that followed. If you liked the first one, you'll like this one as well, and you won't even miss Arnold.

StarWarsMoviesSuck I'm throwing on an extra point, since it's one of my favorite movies to watch. P2 is not a perfect movie, but it's a fun and thrilling experience. If the third act could be completely overhauled, then it would rival Predator 1 in overall quality. What P2 has that P1 does not have is the fun-factor. It has more colorful characters and a wide variation of scenery, offering a very good presentation of Los Angeles. The decision to make it more humorous was a correct one, but unfortunately problems arise.The third act for whatever reason became a campy mess. Let me just add her as well that I wish Keyes would've lived, as he was a solid character as Harrigan's mysterious rival. The predator up to his unmasking was presented masterfully, but the unmasking turned it into a comedy puppet. Did Fox do this on purpose to make the movie flop? Who knows. Regardless, it excels where most sequels do not, and as-of today is the only true sequel for the Predator franchise