Why did nobody tell me about this film?
I understand that it's "not really" a Predator film but, it uses both the Alien and Predator properties together long before AVP finally came to cinemas, and it stars Arnie as "Alan" like c'mon.
The opening half hour's pretty excellent, seeing it through the eyes of Carrie Fisher's reporter character, making us think she's chasing the Predator when then a feral Arnie ambushes her team in the night and asks why they're chasing him. A string of dead bodies they blame him he blames it on an alien yada yada, you know the plot, The Fugitive for the first twenty minutes before it blows everything on that Temple ruins sequence. (Despite being set by the Congo)
I had no idea that Wolf Predator design actually came from this, but here it actually looks good!
Then my favourite part, when it goes completely off topic, and Aliens (Yes Xenomorphs) start just appearing and picking off the military in the area also chasing Alan; with Carrie Fisher then meeting a young suave Ian Glenn!
The underwater parts in the congo river look very nineties, but it is tense, the Predator chasing Arnie or vice versa you can't really tell what's going on, until that exploding net.
I thought something must be rotting in Denmark because no way was this actually; this good, but nobody had mentioned it until, the kinda original esque Aliens just ignored the Predator entirely after it got seared.
(Having difficulty getting pictures of them on Google.)
Then the kicker when Arnold gets put into a headlock by a Jungle Hunter Wolfish lookalike, although I doubt the Congo leads to an industrial looking sewer like WTF and then the true nineties WTF moment, the laughing Chesbursting Ian Glenn puppet!
Then the Chestburster transforms into another Ian Glenn and this in the simultaneous scene with him trying to romance Carrie Fisher makes for some really really trippy editing. (Surprised they got Harrison Ford for that one bit he turns into him just to make a Star Wars reference.)
Then it loses me with the whole "Genomorphs" thing exposition, (happening to both of our leads at once) about how they have assimilated dozens of other species across other worlds, using their special evolutionary abilities to create the ultimate Predator. (Which I guess they thought justified the title.)
But from then on it just becomes burning Ian Glenns over and over again, every time they defeat one making the Prime Genomorph in the temple ever slightly not as CGI looking???
Anyway, now I finally understand, why
@Local Trouble has Harrison Ford for his profile picture; and all the shitposts about Genomorphs I never quite understood until now. But also totally understand why this film gets ignored.
