PREDATOR **

"Apocalypse Now" meets "Alien". "Predator" is now considered a sci-fi classic and is even mentioned in the same breath as the original "Thing from Another World" and it had, in director John McTiernan, a man who knew how to handle action on the screen. The plot could be written on a pinhead as Arnie leads his crack team of commandos into enemy territory on a rescue mission only to encounter another Stan Winston designed alien instead. It's gruesome and exciting in equal measure and it spawned several sequels but this is the one to go for it you like your thrills down and dirty as only McTiernan and Schwarzenegger can give them to you. Good, nasty fun is guaranteed.