Product Details

• Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Kevin Peter Hall, Elpidia Carrillo, Bill Duke
• Directors: John McTiernan
• Writers: Jim Thomas, John Thomas
• Producers: Beau Marks, Jim Thomas, Joel Silver, John Davis, John Vallone
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, Spanish
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• VHS Release Date: July 14, 1998
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (526 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304973179
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #417,306 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Rambo meets Alien in this terrific science-fiction thriller from 1987, directed by John McTiernan just a year before Die Hard made him Hollywood's most sought-after director of action-packed blockbusters. Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite squad of U.S. Army commandos to a remote region of South American jungle, where they've been assigned to search for South American officials who've been kidnapped by terrorists. Instead they find a bunch of skinned corpses hanging from the trees and realize that they're now facing a mysterious and much deadlier threat. As the squad is picked off one by one, Arnold finds himself pitted against a hideous alien creature that's heavily armed and wearing a spacesuit enabling the creature to render itself invisible. The title says it all in describing the relentless, escalating action that follows, maintained by McTiernan with an abundance of visual flair. The film's special effects are still impressive, and stunning locations in the Mexican jungles create a combined atmosphere of verdant beauty and imminent danger. The plot doesn't hold up to much scrutiny, but the movie's so exciting and tightly paced that its weaknesses seem irrelevant. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews

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236 of 272 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worst looking print!, September 23, 2008

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Robert Owsley (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

WOW what a bad looking print. Who the heck was in charge of this Blu-Ray transfer??? Does the 'Ray' stand for Ray Charles? because it looks as if a blind man choose to use this print! All the fuzzies, dots, lines, and blemishes on this print look ever better in hi-def! Why on earth can't the original negative be used? If I'm gonna pay a higher price, then I should get a much better picture. Shame, shame, shame, on them.

269 of 313 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fox blows it on Blu-Ray again, April 8, 2008

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Ryan Agadoni (Whittier, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Predator [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

My 1-star review is not for the movie, Predator, which I love. I bought it twice on DVD: the first single-disc release with no extras, and then the excellent 2-disc special edition. I am not going to be buying on Blu-Ray, however, until the chowder-heads over at Fox start including all of the ALREADY PRODUCED extras on their Blu-Ray discs. Case in point: Predator.

Predator on Blu-Ray features a higher definition transfer (though on a single layer disc), but carries over none of the special features from the 2-disc DVD. How hard would this have been? Make it a dual layer Blu-Ray, and just throw them all on there in standard definition. That would have guaranteed and instant buy for me. But this habit of dumping the film bare-bones onto Blu-Ray is reminiscent of the early days of DVD, and I thought we were past that. Other studios are doing a fine job of including all the special features, so why is Fox being dumb? And why are they slapping a $40 MSRP on a bare-bones release?

You would have had me with a good release, Fox. I would gladly plonk down the cash for a true upgrade from my DVD version. But you blew it, and you're not getting my money.

226 of 263 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Shameful Quality Blu-Ray, September 6, 2008

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tony95 (Knoxville, TN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Predator [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

This is the worst quality Blu-Ray I have come across so far. $26.95 is outrageous for a DVD to Blu-Ray dub. Your probably better off getting the widescreen DVD than the Blu-Ray and playing the movie on upscaling DVD player, you will get the same quality. The movie is classic, just don't buy the Blu-Ray version unless you find it in a bargin bin somewhere.