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rogerebert.suntimes.com - : The creature who visits Earth in ''Predator 2'' is a savage hunter that can make itself invisible. It stalks from above and eviscerates its human prey with savage skill. It is not related to the gentle beings who came to visit us in ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'' Sometimes we seem to welcome visitors from outer space; sometimes we fear them. There is a universe of difference between E.T. and the creature in ''Alien,'' between ''The Thing'' and Mr. Spock, between the austere intelligences that made the monoliths in ''2001'' and the devious chameleons in ''The Hidden.'' The world of ''Predator 2'' is a fearful world, a Los Angeles in the year 1997, when gunfire rules the streets and cops shoot it out with drug dealers. During one confrontation, a strange event takes place. Five drug dealers, heavily armed and barricaded inside a building, are killed by some sort of visitor who is unarmed, who can throw a 160-pound man 20 feet in the air, and who leaves no trace. more...
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www.movie-gurus.com - : The entire notion of being trapped by an indestructible murderous creature in an unfamiliar world is put to waste by moving the Predator from the jungles of the first movie to the urban jungle of L.A., where cop Harrigan (Danny Glover), a drug enforcement officer, hunts down the Predator on his own turf. This isn't too bad of an idea, as the city gives the agile and stealthy Predator room to jump from building to building above the skyline at night, picking off prey and hanging them from the top of buildings, skinned alive. more...
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www.washingtonpost.com - : ''Predator 2,'' starring Danny Glover, is a sequel to the 1987 ''Predator,'' which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. If anyone has any information on Mr. Schwarzenegger's whereabouts, please contact Twentieth Century Fox's Sequel Department in time for ''Predator 3.'' more...
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