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Predator is a 1987 science fiction movie that was directed by John McTiernan and released on Friday, June 12, 1987. It featured actors Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, Elpidia Carrillo, Richard Chaves, Shane Black, Jesse Ventura, Kevin Peter Hall and R.G. Armstrong. The jungle scenes for this movie were located in southern Mexico, near Palenque. The movie was filmed in Puerto Vallarta.

The movie blends effectively the '80s hard action movie genre with a healthy dose of sci-fi horror. Energetic and manly, the movie was successful enough (earning $60 million in the United States alone) to generate a sequel, Predator 2
, in 1990.

Taglines:

Soon the hunt will begin.
Nothing like it has ever been on Earth before. It came from another planet for the thrill of the hunt. It picked the wrong man.
In a part of the world where there are no rules, deep in the jungle where nothing that lives is safe, an elite rescue squad is being led by the ultimate warrior. But now, they're up against the ultimate enemy. Nothing like it has ever been on earth before. It kills for pleasure, it hunts for sport. But this time, it picked the wrong man to hunt.
We cannot see it, but it sees the heat of our bodies and the heat of our fear.
In this movie, Arnold will experience every meaning of the word Pain.

Plot

The story begins in outer space. A dark, featureless spacecraft hurtles toward Earth. As it makes a close pass on the night side of our planet, it ejects an object that enters the atmosphere and leaves a fiery trail.

Scene change — somewhere on the coast of Central America. The mission begins when six U.S. Special Forces soldiers led by Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Schwarzenegger) are ordered by General Phillips (Armstrong) to rescue a Guatemalan cabinet minister who has been captured by guerrilla forces after his helicopter crashed in the jungle across the border.

Along with CIA man Dillon (Weathers), the team is dropped behind the border and begins looking for traces of the minister and his escort. Instead they find the crashed chopper, which appeared to be a "reconnaissance bird", rather than a transport, as well as traces of a dozen rebels being followed by several men with American equipment. It is noted that the pilot must have been hit with something akin to thermal vision, given the accuracy of the shot.

Shortly thereafter, they discover three dead U.S. soldiers hanging from trees, all of them skinned- Dutch recognizes the dog tags of one skinned man, and questions why they were out in the middle of the jungle- Dillon claims to know nothing. The search and rescue mission continues, and they soon discover the guerrilla post and the hostages being held there. The team attacks and destroys the guerilla base but all the prisoners are already dead and turn out to be CIA men- Dillon made up the cabinet minister story, and also admits that the skinned soldiers that had gone missing were ordered there as well.

With all guerrillas killed and a female prisoner, Anna (Carrillo), in their hands, they make for a pickup point. As they move through the jungle they are stalked by something that they are unable to see.

As the groups stops when Billy, the team's tracker, notices something in the trees, Anna attempts to escape, with Hawkins in pursuit. He reaches her, but the creature attacks and kills Hawkins (Black) and Blain (Ventura) before vanishing into the jungle using active camouflage. However when Mac (Duke) catches Blain falling to the ground with the corner of his eye and rushes to him, he sees the predator and the Predator glares at him flashing his yellow eyes. Mac starts shooting at the predator whilst screaming with fear at the same time. Then the other soldiers turn up and also start shooting, but as they attempt to kill it by saturating the jungle with bullets, they succeed only in slightly wounding the Predator.

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