PREDATOR 2 (1990)

MORGAN'S RATING

It comes from a distant world to hunt people for sport. Invisable, and armed with powerful weapons unlike anything we know, it stalks its human quarry mercilessly, leaving mangled corpses in its wake. Last time, it landed in the jungle. This time, it's chosen Los Angeles. Ravaged by open warfare between rival drug gangs, L.A. is the perfect killing ground for the Predator, who is drawn by heat and conflict. WHen the police find mutilated bodies, lieutenant Mike Harrigan thinks its the world of the feuding gangs. Then a mysterious government agent arrives and orders him to stay off the case. Instead, Harrigan sets out to learn what's really going on, and comes face to face with the savage alien in a climatic, electrifying confrontation.

Kevin Peter Hall (The Predator), Danny Glover (Lt. Mike Harrigan), Gary Busey (Peter Keyes), Ruben Blades (Danny), Maria Conchita Alonso (Leona), Bill Paxton (Jerry Lambert), Adam Baldwin (Garber), Kent McCord (Captain B. Pilgrim), Morton Downey Jr. (Tony Pope), Calvin Lockhart (King Willie), Steve Kahan (Sergeant), Henry Kingi (El Scorpio), Corey Rand (Ramon Vega), Elpidia Carrillo (Anna), Lilyan Chauvin (Irene Edwards), Michael Mark Edmondson (Gold Tooth), Nick Corri (Detective).

SILENT. INVISABLE. INVINCIBLE. HE'S COMING TO TOWN WITH A FEW DAYS TO KILL.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Stephen Hopkins.

WRITERS: Jim Thomas and John Thomas.

PRODUCERS: John Davis, Lawrence Gordon and Joel Silver.

ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Suzanne Todd.

CO-PRODUCERS: Terry Carr and Tom Joyner.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: Lloyd Levin and Michael Levy.

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Alan Silvestri.

DISTRIBUTOR: 20th Century Fox

FACTS

CRITICAL COMMENTS

RELEASE DATE: November 23rd, 1990 (USA)

"Fast-paced (if too derivative) sequel...good production design and lots of hit-'em-across-the-face action, but don't look for anything resembling inventive dialogue or character development." -- Leonard Maltin

BOX OFFICE OPENING: $8.7 million (USA)

BOX OFFICE RESULT: $28.3 million (USA)

- The skull of a creature that resembles the ones in Alien and Aliens is on the wall in the Predator's trophy room.

"Since the predator is imaginary but the people who made this film are not, Predator 2 speaks sadly of their own lack of curiosity and imagination." -- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times

- Danny Glover replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger as the main lead in this sequel, however Elpidia Carrillo appears as Anna, a character she played in the original Predator.