Where’s our ‘Predator Isolation’?

In 1987, director John McTiernan brought us a film that was unlike any other that came before it. Mixing equal parts Rambo and Alien, Predator was a unique combination of wartime action and science fiction mystery that managed to avoid many of the B movie cliches that doomed films in the same genre pool prior to and since then. Although not a critical success in the beginning with many berating it for having “arguably one of the emptiest, feeblest, most derivative scripts ever made as a major studio movie” and being “dull, with few surprises”, it garnered commercial success earning over six times its budget and a following that only grew over time. Unfortunately for the fans of the movie, we haven’t gotten a worthy sequel, and we haven’t gotten the video game equivalent we deserve.