Half as taut and twice as dumb, Predator 2 is also exponentially funnier – and therefore more fun – than its Schwarzenegger-headlined original. In downtown L.A., renegade cop Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) is navigating a “war zone” in which drug gangs engage in armed conflict with the police, yet crazy Latino cokeheads and voodoo-practicing Jamaican ganja-smokers are nothing compared to the Predator, who arrives in town to hunt anyone carrying a weapon. Glover, wearing baggy grandpa pants but swearing like a sailor, is an odd choice for an action hero, and the film hilariously pairs him with the always-insane Gary Busey as a mysterious government operative who seems to know a lot about the city’s resident invisible extraterrestrial. Bill Paxton (even hammier than in Weird Science), Maria Conchita Alonso (whose pregnancy is revealed as a tantalizing subplot, and then totally dropped), Morton Downey Jr., and porn legend Teri Weigel round out a cast of campy over-actors, and director Stephen Hopkins’ absolute inability to create tension or excitement from his lame special effects and boring set pieces – such as a nonsensical chase through a meat-packing plant – only further compounds this ludicrous B-movie’s goofiness.
Gary Busey ... Morton Downey, Jr. ... is your "e" key broken? ;)
Posted by: Joe Grossberg | March 20, 2005 at 07:55 PM
HA! That's really weird. My "e" key does seem to be working. Strange.
Posted by: Nick | March 20, 2005 at 10:18 PM