Director: Stephen Hopkins
Writers: Jim Thomas, John
Thomas
Starring: Danny Glover, Gary
Busey, Rubén Blades, Maria Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, Robert Davi, Adam
Baldwin, Kent McCord, Morton Downey Jr., Kevin Peter Hall
I always liked “Predator 2”
more than the first one. It’s a better-made film. Not that it’s really a good
movie either, but director Stephen Hopkins does a good job punching it up a
notch. Again, it’s silly and ridiculous, but it’s also fun to see Danny Glover,
at the height of his “Lethal Weapon” fame, going solo. I’m just waiting for him
to say, “I’m too old for this shit,” when I’m watching this one.
It’s also nice to see
another “Lethal Weapon” alum apparently hired to do what he did in that movie,
but more so. That would be Gary Busey. There’s no psychotic like Busey psycho,
is there? Bill Paxton, as well, get’s to go balls out here. Paxton is an actor
that has totally left his shoehorned beginnings behind. There’s a hint of the
serious performer he would become in the scene where Glover gives him “The
Speech”. He turns all meek for the only time in the movie and you can see that
Paxton has a little more going for him than Chet from “Weird Science”.
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3 comments:
Now I want to watch it again. I like this one, too. It is completely ridiculous in so many ways, but very entertaining. One of my peeves is the Alien skull in the ship...I still have a problem with that. WOULD Aliens have skulls? Don't they have exoskeletons? Anyway, I watch this one in rotation with the Alien movies on a regular basis and enjoy it every time.
That skull was the beginning of the end for the Alien franchise. That image combined with the Dark Horse comic book got the notion in the FOX conglomerate head that a team up movie could work. They tried to rush "Alien 3" after that. They tried to get an aborted Alien vs. Predator movie into theaters by 1993. That fell through. Somehow Alien: Resurrection happened, and by the time AVP finally did make it into production they'd handed it over to one of the worst filmmakers of the video game era, Paul W.S. Anderson. But that's for my next post.
Yeah, I own both of the AVP movies and they do NOT play in my rotation. The second one in particular really stinks. It's a shame that the franchise went in that direction.
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