Arnie plays Dutch, leader of a Special Forces team, duped into a rescue mission, only to find themselves facing off against an alien predator who wants nothing but their skulls. Such a simple premise brought to life by director John McTiernan who cast his film with huge muscle bound ‘actors’ all of whom wanting to take their size to the next level, which brought about a rivalry and intense competition on set that gives a fervour to the on screen personas. The chemistry between the actors is intense and this coupled with a non-stop action script and an alien design that created an icon (thanks to a hasty character design by effects maestro Stan Winston) the effect is an action film that all want to live up to. It is pure in its unashamed identity and wears its credentials on its sleeve. through with levels that are much less prominent in the 1080p Blu-ray version. Once again as with the first film some of the night and/or interior perceived botched outings), the cold, hard fact is that Fox is probably just understandably cross promoting its new kinda sorta reboot of the Predator' has been released so many times on DVD and other formats that it's difficult to keep count anymore. Unfortunately, the film has never made much of an impression visually, including its original Blu-ray debut from 2008. While the quality of that initial hi-def release was not a complete disaster, the MPEG-2 encode brought with it a few issues and artifacts as well as simply not comparing to other catalog presentations. According to a disc announcement, Fox promised a new restoration of the film, and fans were somewhat excited — if not slightly skeptical — to see what this classic creature-feature would ultimately look like. I'm sorry to say, the studio has actually made matters worse with this so-called "new" 1080p/AVC MPEG-4 transfer, retaining its original 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

I don't doubt Fox has gone out of their way to strike a new HD master for this presentation — as seen in several sequences of this Blu-ray edition — but it is unfortunate they deemed it necessary to alter a great deal of the image. For a true remaster, the original film elements should have been scanned and cleaned with the least amount of digital manipulation. Sadly, this latest version of a Schwarzenegger classic appears less like an improved restoration and more like digitized man-handling with some scenes almost looking computer-generated. I don't believe making an entirely new internegative (IN) for a fresh, "untouched" release print is too much to ask of a studio, especially for a film with such a strong following. never tilts excessively toward noise territory. I wouldn't say this presentation is quite at the level of the first Predator, but it's continually release. That said, as those who pay attention to scores may have already realized, I'm at least marginally less impressed than even Marty was Having recently looked through the first three Predator films, it is only fitting that we should take a look at this latest instalment.

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Predator 2 is presented on 4K UHD courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with a 2160p transfer in 1.84:1. Marty wasn't Short Takes (SD, 10 min) — Four more individualized segments focused on John McTiernan as a director, Ventura's venture into acting and then politics, Stan Winston's sense of humor, and a warning about the drinking water in Mexico. realistic atmosphere throughout; the inside of police headquarters features phones, typewriters and

its predecessor's Blu-ray transfer, this one sports a mostly grain-free image that lends to the visuals towards a shade of gray or appearing too bright, but certainly not quite purely inky and true, either. Outside of his work with James Cameron, Predator is Arnie’s finest hour. Putting together a bunch of no-nonsense musclebound ‘actors’ pitched against one of the most cleverly designed alien antagonists ever and its success was assured. That fact that it is full of 80’s cheese and unashamedly action just further enthuses its fans. It spawned sequels, spin offs and an ongoing franchise, but, as yet, none can compare to the original. Arnie vs Alien – what’s not to love? A propulsive, lean thriller, which efficiently mounts the tension over its first act before a second act full of surprises and a finale that the whole feature was building towards, Prey is hard to fault, seeming at once completely unlike any previous Predator sequel yet also a strangely natural successor to them (not only the original, but also the nods at the end of the second film, which emphasised that the intergalactic hunters had been 'visiting' Earth for many centuries before Dutch first encountered them).As the movie moves along, McTiernan shows great control of the camera by maintaining focus on his main attraction, namely Schwarzenegger. And later, when the elite commando team raids a rebel encampment, the filmmakers have us fully convinced that things will continue in this direction. Essentially, the entire first act is nothing more than a setup, a crafty swindle of sorts to draw viewers in with expectations of a typical Schwarzenegger actioner. It's much like what Dillon (Carl Weathers) does to Dutch in the story. It's no coincidence the film follows a small fighting force into the jungles of Central America with what at the time was standard action violence. The moment it's over, the deception — both on Dutch as in the audience — commences, with tension that never lets up and a gory spectacle from an unseen assailant that stalks and kills his victims, one at a time. definite surprises. Perhaps predictably, the nascent Predator franchise suffered a pretty significant "sophomore slump" with Predator DaylightsEnd You have zero knowledge of how its going to play out and severely downplay the abilities of Indigenous warfare and strategy. All it takes to defeat a predator is good strategy and stealth, and in the end of the first one Dutch defeated him with the most basic elements of the land (with some help of shit he pulled apart too but those were just the tools he himself had on hand). But he still cloaked himself in mud and crushed it with a tree. Nothing stopping the group here from covering themselves in mud or hiding behind a fire to avoid his heat sensor or crushing him with a dead tree or boulder. And who cares that the predator avoided gunfire? He was cloaked and Mac and co were firing blindly based on emotion, it was just bad warfare. Arrows and axes/machetes, knifes, fire, and the elements are more than enough for them to take on a predator if they learn how to hide properly, they arent brainless morons who cant catch on to whats happening. We dont even know what type of tech the predators in this film will have either, for all we know their tools are also older since its 300 years prior to anything we've seen as of yet. It is like seeing the film for the very first time; indeed it is probably better than its theatrical release thanks to the WCG and HDR which breathe new life and depth into every frame. Barring the occasional softness that creeps in, a product of the source and has always been there, the detail on show is terrific. Skin texture, clothing weaves, weapons, ammo casings, jungle leaves, mud, water; everything has a decent edge and is crisp.