Predator is a great action movie, but after 35 years, the movie is also a sharper satire on machismo and U.S. politics than you might remember.
A year before John McTiernan directed Die Hard, he made Predator. One thing that unites both movies is that, while they’re justifiably thought of as great action movies, they’re both funnier than they need to be. Die Hard‘s comedy comes largely from John McClane himself, who is furious about the position he’s found himself in.
That only becomes more evident once they accomplish their initial mission and realize they’re being hunted by something much stronger than the rebels they ambushed. What makes the movie even better is that these guys are muscular Vietnam veterans; men who have already seen how bad things can go when you go into the jungle with too much confidence.
The Los Angeles Times called it one “arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie,” and Roger Ebert, who liked the movie quite a bit better, still saw it mostly as a competent blockbuster that delivers on exactly what it promises.
For those who may not remember, Schwarzenegger’s character Dutch initially believes that he’s been asked to assemble a team of commandos to recapture a “cabinet minister” who has gone missing in the jungle and was presumably shot down by rebel forces. In reality, though, Dutch was hired to take out some remote rebels and given a story that would adhere to his morals. He realizes this after they’ve completed the raid, but by that point, not much can be done about it.
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