Predator 2 (1990)

I loved this film. It's really, really bad, but easily one of the funniest films I've seen recently. For some strange reason it's set a mere seven years into the future from 1990, 1997, during a heat wave and gang war in LA. The fact that it's in the future doesn't add much to the story, but I guess the cars look a little different. And the guns. Danny Glover is wound up in the most ridiculous way and for no justifiable reason. One minute he climbs out of a gangster's limo in a cloud of smoke and tells them to lay of the ganj as he goes to see a mystic informant, and the next he's rushing around mad and wound up for no reason like a raging paranoiac with a fear of heights and no time to masturbate who curses birds. Bill Paxton is also ridiulous as his short-lived up and coming partner. The funniest scene in the film has him try to get in the hotboxed limo that takes Glover to the informant, before running after it and shouting "f--k!" as it drives off. I don't know, I guess he really wanted to get stoned. 

It's a weird film, and does not make much sense. Danny Glover's character has an intense fear of heights that means the finale of the film is a little longer than usual. I guess it serves to give him a disadvantage to the predator but they don't use it. Instead he climbs out down a ledge and curses about how he doesn't need birds, then finds himself in a spaceship.  The characters are all ridiculous, especially Glover's character, who shouts at everything and runs around talking to himself.  In one scene he rushes after Gary Busey's equally frustrated agent and grabs him by the collar, but while other films would have him approach casually like a bad ass, or meet him in a corridor, this film has him run out of his office and run down stairs, barging past people, despite the fact that Busey is walking slowly away.  It just looks silly and I'm sure it's intentional, because there are many other things that make no sense.  In one scene Paxton and Glover are both wearing suits and trilbies, despite having never worn them before, and they never wear them again.  It's just slightly bewildering, and kudos to the film makers if it was intentional, because it works without being obvious or self conscious.

I don't know, I'll definitely be watching this again, but although unique it's not as good an action film as the first Predator.