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Predator 2 (1990) is a science fiction movie starring Danny Glover. It is a sequel to the successful Predator which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apart from suit actor Kevin Peter Hall, the film had an all new cast. The movie was poorly received upon release when compared with the original, although the audience for it has grown since with video and DVD.

Taglines:

Silent. Invisible. Invincible. He's in town with a few days to kill.
Hunting season opens again...
The Ultimate Hunter.
This time he's coming to a different kind of jungle.
This Time... Los Angeles, 1997.

Plot

The film is set in 1997 in an unusually high heat wave in Los Angeles coincides with a street war between rival drug gangs armed with military-grade weapons (Jamaican and Colombian drug cartels). A gang war has erupted in the streets after the uncovering of a drug run, with cop Leona (Maria Conchita Alonso) and Danny Archuleta (Ruben Blades) awaiting the aid of professional and hard-trained cop Michael Harrigan (Danny Glover). After an intense firefight between cops and criminals, the injured are rescued from the crossfire, which leads to the criminals withdrawing into a nearby building, where they have set up a supply area and intend to load up. A series of explosions rocks the inside of the building, followed with random gunfire. Harrigan investigates, only to find all but one of the criminals dead, but with no bullet wounds. The last criminal falls to his death, and Harrigan leaves the site with his comrades, but not before witnessing a silhouette among the air of a large person, which he disregards as an effect of the intense heat wave.

Back at the station, Harrigan is introduced to Special Agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) of a federal task force, who appears to be investigating on rumors that members of the Jamaican drug lords aiming to take over the west coast. Later, he is also introduced to a star-transer from another district, Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton), whose carefree attitude coupled with his competence as a cop makes him a valued, if sometimes annoying, ally.

As Jamaican criminals attack at key honchos of the Colombian drug gangs (possibly as retribution from members killed by the Predator that are blamed on them), the Predator takes advantage of a situation and kills every Jamaican criminal on the site, leaving only a prostitute there, who is discovered, repeatedly murmuring "The devil came and took them" in Spanish . Harrigan, having disobeyed orders pending Keyes' overseeing of the incident, is threatened by the federal agent, telling him he is in over his head. Harrigan tells his comrade Danny they will come back later to investigate when no one is around, to retrieve what they think is a speartip of some sort. Danny gets there first, however, and upon retrieving the item, is killed by the Predator.

Harrigan is devastated. He vows to destroy the person responsible for his friend's death, with Leona and Lambert aiding him. He encounters Keyes again, this time threatening him to stay out of his way. Keyes only responds by telling Harrigan that he still has no idea what he's facing. They see a medical consultant, the lead pathologist in the city (although she was left out of the incidents entirely), to explain the origins of the spear tip; she is only able to tell the team that Danny was killed by a killing blow to his heart, boned like a fish, and that the spear tip's molecular structure does not correspond with the elemental table, although it is nearly weightless and cuts like fine steel. Harrigan then manages to set up a meeting with King Willy, the Jamaican drug lord leading the Voodoo Gang. Willy seems to be slightly insane, but insists that the man killing everybody is not of this world, speculating he is some demon, and that he cannot be killed. Harrigan leaves, and Willy is killed by the Predator as well.

Leona believes that the person responsible for the killings is aiming for Harrigan, if only for the fact that Danny was killed only minutes before Harrigan arrived, and that King Willy was murdered only minutes after Harrigan left. She and Jerry are again with the medical officer, who tells Harrigan that the special task force (who incidentally took the surviving prostitute from the gang murder site) deleted everything from the database, except for a piece of evidence that suggests strongly that whoever killed Danny had only recently been in a slaughterhouse. Jerry reveals that it is in that very district that he lost Keyes while trying to track his movements. Harrigan tells them he'll meet up with her and Jerry, pausing in front of a taxidermy shop; perhaps for a moment, Harrigan realizes what he is facing, but it passes. He visits Danny's grave, and upon leaving, finds Danny's necklace on a tree branch (perhaps a challenge for the Predator, although some believe it was a sign of respect).

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