 What's going on guys? Welcome to a brand new retro review. We're doing our journey to the predator It continues today as we discuss predator to Danny Glover's version which came out in 1990 Three years after the original predator, which if you guys didn't miss out on my first review, I love the original predator It's like a classic film for me. So my favorite films is growing up It made me an adult in a sense because of Arnold's big muscles Danny Glover starring in this one in the predator two takes place in LA in a territory gang wars are happening in here and the Predator just happens to be in town now this film. It's not good. It's not good at all like It is cheesy. It's over the top, which yes The first one was all that but in a more subtle manner and more of a manner that holds up predator two is cheesy over the top Disconfigured and just never found its stride. I never knew what it wanted to be It felt very over the top in a sense of being a comedy and a parody and at times it felt very serious and dramatic It never found that right line of what it wanted to be but predator two has some awesome moments That are so bad, but are so good before I get into all those I want to talk about the pros though the pros in here's Danny Glover Danny Glover is awesome awesome in here Charismatic loving you love him and it's maybe it's just because it is a Glover himself It's not but it's just you don't see him in these roles where he's playing a big badass. He's he's a badass He's a cop he destroys patrol cars. He kills people and just so you know like spoilers. There might be spoilers in here This isn't a film you need to see but you know it's Danny Glover He's kicking ass taking names and he has a cool little group of people He's this badass cop who's also a bad person in a sense because he's not the best cop in the department Like he is but he isn't the cops think he's bad because he destroys all these patrol cars. Yes This is an actual line and it's just yeah, but it's Danny Glover and he's fun And he keeps saying motherfucker or fuck you and those excuse my language But seriously those are like some of the best parts of the whole film is every time he says that you know Samuel Jackson Is known for having the best emphasis on saying the F word and Danny Glover in this film has some of the best emphasis of ever Saying the effort as well I love it the way that he says it also Bill Paxton recipes to him But he's also in this film and at first I didn't like his character. It was very like oh, hey I'm the funny cop blah blah blah, but you kind of get a sense to liking him Maybe again, and maybe it's just because it's Bill Paxton But you've got a sense to liking his character more now the other good thing about this film is the predator You get a little bit more of him You get a little bit more action scenes with him see a little bit more of his mechanics see his ships More of them that that's what was cool about here And I love seeing more of the predator and just again the Mountain Dew blood going everywhere You see him kicking butt taking names Slashing people putting stuff in him and it's bloody It's our rated gore and blood and you get more of the predator I just never like when the predator talks though like can we talk about that like I just don't like when they talk Like it just seems really cheesy, but at the same time like it's such a small gripe I just the predator in here is badass that that's what you come to the film to see I would have liked to see more of him Of course the predator is taking out all these gangs because there's two different gangs which this is like probably the most over-the-top Thing about the film is this voodoo Jamaican gangman and this Colombian gang I think I'm not a hundred percent I'm pretty sure it's Colombian even though I just watched the movie yesterday. I'm not a hundred percent sure on that I should have done my research But obviously I did not care enough about this film to look into that But yeah, so there there's these rival gangs fighting and it's just insane Like how over-the-top especially the Jamaican voodoo ones are like Jesus like Just the way that they're like bases look the way that they string people up like predators So you can't really tell what the difference is unless they're skinned There's one scene where a sex scene is happening But it's like panning in from a wide shot so you can't tell it's sexy yet But it just says moaning but it literally sounded like the girl was dying Like it did not sound realistic at all and I started laughing super hard Like this film has those moments where you laugh because it's so over-the-top and so stupid and so dumb And that's what this film is. It doesn't hold up in all. Yeah, there's some nice action beats in here And yeah, Danny Glover is awesome So is Bill Paxton they're both charismatic as hell, but their characters are assholes You don't really like their characters. They're not the fun versions of themselves And that's why you like them the action here is decent the Predators cool And there's some good comedic beats in here But it always felt like they took the first Predator film Shook it up really fucking hard and made it the super over-the-top movie that it didn't need to be The first one was perfect in its manner And I do think the idea of taking it into an LA centric area with a city like is cool We got a jungle now. It's cool to see a city That's kind of the next place you'd want to see the predator invade Yeah, it's cool. We get to see more predator We get to see some little Easter eggs in this film from different time periods at the Predators And it really felt like they were trying to build a sequel up for either Danny Glover Or for the Predators to go to a different time period and explain like where they've been how long they've been going around Obviously they didn't happen because the next film to come out after this that actually I guess Titan I guess would be the Predators which we'll be talking about on Monday with Adrian Brody, but That that's where this film is it just it doesn't work and execute in the right manner that it does It there's some good moments in here There's some awesome action sequences the last action scene when Danny Glover in the predator fighting is bad ass It has the slow-mo shots. It has the gun action Gary Buse. He's in here and he's over the top as well He's nice in here. I like a nice addition in here, too But the film is not memorable. It's pretty bad It's one of those films that you drink and take a shot for every time something stupid happens on the screen And in a sense, I can understand this being someone's guilty pleasure. I don't like this movie I didn't I enjoyed it for what it was But it's not a good movie and I can't recommend it either It doesn't hold up to the first film and it's not a good film to watch I don't know if I watch this because this is actually my first time ever actually watching the full film in length I'd never really seen the first thing. I'd seen glimpses of it, but never watched it connectively so Predator 2 1999 predator It's all right and not the film that you're wanting right after the first predator. So with all that said, I'm gonna give the predator 2 a D Tell me guys, what are you guys thoughts on the predator 2? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you think it's a guilty pleasure? 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