Succeeds just as much as a thriller as it does an action film, if not more so ... Worthy of being discussed and analyzed all these years later.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 6, 2024

A brainless brawn extravaganza, a cat-and-louse saga that has little of the Conan movies' outlandishness and none of the compulsive drive and storytelling logic that made The Terminator a B-movie classic.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 3, 2023

Predator is probably the best movie ever made about a band of mercenaries being pursued through the jungles of Central America by a vicious extraterrestrial.

| Oct 3, 2023

With McTiernan’s craftsmanlike direction delivering action scenes that are easy to follow and, at times, simply wowing, Predator finds itself among the best of the big, R-rated action movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 18, 2023

John McTiernan’s tight direction of the film’s bloody action makes up for the somewhat stilted performances.

| Aug 4, 2023

Brothers Jim and John Thomas wrote what would become their signature screenplay. Their cohesive blend of straight action, survival elements, and sci-fi thrills inject “Predator” with a cool and unique identity.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

Along with Alien, this story is not that much different from the B-movies of old. The difference is its 20th Century Fox budget.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Aug 4, 2022

It's arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie. There's no need to do a Mad magazine movie parody of this; it's already on the screen.

| Apr 22, 2022

Although it could stand to lose a few pounds from its mid-section, Predator benefits greatly from a strong cast and an exceptional monster.

| Apr 22, 2022

The emotional and physical vulnerability that Predator imposes on Schwarzenegger make this easily his best film of an often impressive round of muss-'em-up thrillers.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Apr 22, 2022

If you get a kick out of watching men with big muscles roll around in mud to the accompaniment of portentous music, Predator may have some appeal. But I suspect even Rambo and Rocky fans will find it boring.

| Apr 21, 2022

There are some really obnoxious things about Predator, the new Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, but the bottom line is that it is a fast-paced, skillfully structured, exciting, extremely violent and bloody piece of totally mindless entertainment.

| Apr 21, 2022

At a moment when Rambo-style blood-baths are thought to have fallen from favor, along comes Predator, which may not be the daintiest movie ever made but is a knock-your-socks-off thriller. Originality and pep still go a long way in moviemaking.

| Apr 21, 2022

Episode 8: Sex, Lies and Predator

| Original Score: 86/100 | Aug 28, 2021

Predator isn't reinventing the wheel, but it's having a lot of fun with what it's doing.

| Apr 14, 2021

One of the best climaxes I have had the pleasure of seeing on a film of the genre. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Apr 15, 2020

Visually, Predator is a full-assault experience. Director John McTiernan mixes his range of shots with fast precision and full-blast effect.

| Jun 12, 2019

One of the most energetic and intense action films of the 1980s.

| Jun 3, 2019

A whole mess of talent working at the top of their games in front of and behind the camera came together at the perfect times in their careers to create the lightning in a bottle that is Predator.

| Oct 31, 2018

Pure action cinema at its most efficient and charmingly unpretentious, Predator remains a lean masterpiece over three decades on.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 13, 2018