Predator 2

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Movie
German title Predator 2
Original title Predator 2
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Stephen Hopkins
script Jim Thomas
John Thomas
production Joel Silver
Michael Levy
music Alan Silvestri
camera Peter Levy
cut Mark Goldblatt
Bert Lovitt
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Predator 2 is an American science fiction film released in 1990 and the sequel to Predator (1987). The film opened in German cinemas on May 30, 1991.

action

After the first appearance of a Predator in the jungle , another Predator goes on the hunt in 1997, this time in Los Angeles , where rival gangs fight against each other and against the police. One day, a senior member of a Colombian gang is brutally murdered while having sex in his apartment by Jamaicans who stab him in a voodoo ritual and hang him upside down from the ceiling, naked. At that moment, a Predator joins them and knocks down the entire Jamaican gang. With the last victim, the alien briefly lifts his camouflage so that the Colombian's lover can see him. Since the Predator only kills armed men, he spares the woman who later tells the police that the real devil has appeared.

The hot-headed detective Mike Harrigan takes over the investigation and soon comes together with his unit in the sights of the alien. The Predator kills one by one from Harrigan's unit, with the exception of Leona, as he detects her pregnancy through his x-ray vision.

Meanwhile, a secret government organization has been following the strange hunter's heels; Led by Agent Keyes, they want to use Harrigan as bait to capture the Predator.

However, Harrigan finds Keyes and confronts him. While they await the creature in a cold store, Keyes explains that years ago a similar creature attacked a US special unit in the jungles of Central America and all but two people were killed. This being is equipped with superior technology. Harrigan realizes that this is the technology that is causing the government's interest. The creature should therefore not be killed if possible, but rather incapacitated with liquid nitrogen and captured.

Then the Predator appears in the cold store, but although they have set a trap, the creature kills Keyes and his heavily armed task force and then turns to Harrigan. He fights it with more success and chases it into its spaceship, which lies in a remote tunnel. Here, with the last of his strength, Harrigan manages to kill the Predator using its own weapon, a razor-sharp, plate-sized throwing disc.

Immediately after the hunter's death, more extraterrestrials who watched the fight emerge around the surprised Harrigan. They carry away their companion's body, and one of them pays tribute to Harrigan by giving him an old pistol with the inscription Raphael Adolini 1715 engraved on it. Then he gives Harrigan to understand that this should disappear, and the aliens leave earth with their spaceship. Harrigan can leave the tunnel at the last moment.

Reviews

"Conclusion: tough monster chase for those with strong nerves"

- Cinema

"Professionally manufactured, but in its effects noisy, rude and at its core inhuman horror product."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

  • Australian Cinematographers Society Best Cinematography for Peter Levy
  • Fantasporto Best Film Stephen Hopkins (Nominated)
  • Saturn Award 1992 Best Science Fiction Film (Nominated)
  • Saturn Award 1992 Best Make-up for Stan Winston and Scott H. Eddo (nominated)
  • Saturn Award 1992 Best Special Effects for Stan Winston and Joel Hynek (nominated)

background

useful information

  • The film could not repeat the overwhelming success of its predecessor (98 million dollars in revenue at 15 million dollars in production costs). Still, the film was a success: it grossed $ 57,120,318, versus $ 35 million in production costs
  • Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally supposed to appear, but was filming Terminator 2 at the time .
  • John McTiernan was offered direction, but he preferred the Tom Clancy film adaptation of the Hunt for Red October .
  • Also in the second part, the Predator was played by the over two meter tall actor Kevin Peter Hall , who died five months after the shooting.
  • The film was originally set to take place in New York.
  • The film was unindexed in April 2014. After a re-examination by the FSK, the film was released uncut from the age of 18.

The appearance of the alien

Of decisive importance for the further development of the Predator figure was a detail shortly before the end of the film, which the makers of Stan Winston had originally only thought of as an inside gag: when Harrigan enters the spaceship, he discovers his opponent's hunting trophies on a wall - including the elongated, eyeless skull of the alien from the film Alien - The uncanny creature from a strange world . Winston was inspired by the Aliens vs. Aliens , published a year earlier by Dark Horse Comics . Predator comic. The comics and the appearance of the Xenomorph skull in Predator 2 led fans of the two science fiction film series to assume that they were set in the same fictional universe. Licensee 20th Century Fox liked the idea, and so more comics were written and the game franchise of the same name was born, featured in the 2004 movie Alien vs. Predator culminated and eventually continued with Aliens vs. Predator 2 was continued in late 2007.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Predator 2 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2014 (PDF; test number: 65 507-a V).
  2. ↑ Predator 2 on cinema.de
  3. ^ Predator 2. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Predator 2 (1990) . In: Box Office Mojo . Retrieved July 8, 2010.
  5. ↑ Predator 2 . In: The Numbers . Retrieved August 23, 2014.
  6. ↑ Predator 2 was prematurely removed from the index , schnittberichte.com, accessed on May 1, 2014
Predator film series
Main series

Predator (1987) | Predator 2 (1990) | Predators (2010) | Predator - Upgrade (2018)

Crossover with alien

Alien vs. Predator (2004) | Aliens vs. Predator 2 (2007)