Having recently made honorable cases for Brett Leonard's HIDEAWAY, THE LAWNMOWER MAN, and VIRTUOSITY, our champion of under-appreciated sequels Lance Vlcek is here to make a case for director Stephen Hopkin's PREDATOR 2.
The film has gathered more than its fair share of haters over the years, but Lance has a different perspective. Does he illustrate some good points and give Stephen Hopkin's PREDATOR 2 a new lease on life? We'll leave that for you to find out!
PREDATOR 2 begins as
Los Angeles is enduring a heat wave and a crime wave, so the pressure on police officer Michael Harrigan (Danny Glover) to solve a strange string of murders is mounting. Harrigan thinks the culprit can be found among the warring gangs and drug cartels, but FBI Special Agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) knows the horrible truth: Their killer is a fearsome extraterrestrial (Kevin Peter Hall) with keen hunting abilities that include superior night vision and the power to make itself invisible.
The sequel was directed by Hopkins from a screenplay written by Jim and John Thomas and starred Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Rubén Blades, María Conchita Alonso, Robert Davi, and Bill Paxton. It was produced by Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver, and John Davis.