Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
A team of elite commandos on a secret mission in a Central American jungle come to find themselves hunted by an extraterrestrial warrior.
- guerrilla warfare
- central and south america
- predator
- trap
- alien
- survival
- stalking
- creature
- alien invasion
- invisible
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer
Carl Weathers
Al Dillon
Kevin Peter Hall
The Predator / Helicopter Pilot
Elpidia Carrillo
Anna Gonsalves
- Bill Duke — Mac Eliot
- Jesse Ventura — Blain Cooper
- Sonny Landham — Billy Sole
- Richard Chaves — Jorge "Poncho" Ramirez
- R.G. Armstrong — Major General Homer Phillips
- Shane Black — Rick Hawkins
- Peter Cullen — Predator (voice) (uncredited)
- Steve Boyum — Hostage Executed by the Russian (uncredited)
- William H. Burton Jr. — Guerilla Soldier Shot Down from Tree (uncredited)
- Henry Kingi — Guerilla Soldier Blown Up in Van (uncredited)
- Sven-Ole Thorsen — Russian Officer (uncredited)
- Directed
- John McTiernan
- Written
- John Thomas, Jim Thomas
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 9,461 ratings
- Studio
- 20th Century Fox, Lawrence Gordon Productions, Silver Pictures, Davis Entertainment, Amercent Films, American Entertainment Partners L.P.
The Collection
The complete story, in order.
1987 · You’re herePredator
Where it starts.
Predator 2
1990Predators
2010The Predator
2018
Prey
2022
Predator: Badlands
2025
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
