After a slow and clumsy buildup, the flick does improve with its foregone conclusion: the half-hour-long third act is all one extended mano a mano climax pitting Harrigan against the Predator.
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One droll scene finds the Predator attacking a subway train full of Bernie Goetzs at least as well armed as our LAPD heroes it's an isolated Robocop moment in a film more interested in brute force than satire.
Alan Silvestri's exciting score helps, but the film's narrative approach is conspicuously haphazard. Plot points and characters (like Robert Davi's Captain Phil Heinemann) come and go, as Hopkins instructs everyone to overact feverishly. Assisted by a dude named Garber (a young Adam Baldwin), Keyes is tracking the Predator with the intention of trapping it for study. One man knows more than he's saying: DEA agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey, bringing the crazy). Naturally, this puts the good guys (including the pregnant Leona) in the harm's way of a creature able to bend light as camouflage and armed with a wrist-mounted computer and ray gun. Harrigan puts his team-Detectives Danny Archuleta (Ruben Blades) and Leona Cantrell (Maria Conchita Alonso), and new recruit Jerry "Lone Ranger" Lambert (Bill Paxton)-on the job of figuring out who or what the heck is slaying criminals and slinging them upside down from the rafters. With the Predator bloodily killing druglords, Harrigan is grateful but confused. The plot is the essence of simple-mindedness-I mean, simplicity. Hopkins succeeds in creating a profane, violent testosterone fest, but a terribly awkward one. It's the execution that's largely witless. But they didn't count on one thing: the hulking alien Predator (Kevin Peter Hall), a warrior-drawn to "heat and conflict"-who enjoys hunting the so-called "most dangerous game." After the Central American setting of the first film, the jungle-to-urban-jungle concept is a witty idea for a sequel. The Colombians take on the "Jamaican Voodoo Posse" for the title of worst ethnic sterotype-I mean, dominant drug lords. During a 109° heat wave, a drug war is waged openly in the streets.
Predator 2 takes place seven years into the filmmaker's future, in 1997 Los Angeles. Original screenwriters Jim Thomas & John Thomas sequelize the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger hit without the participation of the star, who wisely absconded to the vastly superior sequel Terminator 2: Judgment Day.
Made by Stephen Hopkins just after the fifth Nightmare on Elm Street picture, Predator 2 is undeniably bad, but sort of a nice try. So has his glorified "B" movie, which-according to Hollywood lore-went through over twenty edits to talk down the MPAA from an NC-17 rating. In Predator 2, renegade cop Mike Harrigan (Glover), eighteen years on the job, has racked up a reputation for excessive violence.
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