Predator 2 is a 1990 science fiction action film directed by Stephen Hopkins the film is a sequel to 1987′s Predator with Kevin Peter Hall again playing the role of the Predator.  The film is now 20 years old the film begins in Los Angeles 1997 the city is suffering from a heat wave and a turf war between the heavily armed Colombians and Jamaican drug cartels.  A Predator observes a shootout between the police and Colombians, efforts to rescue two wounded cops have failed and backup is unavailable.  Lieutenant Mike Harrigan (Danny Glover) bursts onto the scene the predator watches Harrigan arm himself and drive his car into the firefight to rescue two wounded officers, this gives his fellow police officers the chance to save their wounded friends. The Colombians seize the chance and retreat into a nearby building that serves as their stronghold. While the Colombians arm themselves they are attacked by an invisible enemy and slaughtered. Harrigan and his detectives Leona Cantrell (María Conchita Alonso) and Danny Archuleta (Rubén Blades) enter the building against orders.   As they begin to search the building the gang’s leader, El Scorpio makes it out shooting wildly at Harrigan and his team.  El Scorpio escapes to the roof with Harrigan behind. On the roof El Scorpio spots a distorted human figure and raises his guns to shoot. Harrigan shoots El Scorpio who falls off the roof and is killed. Harrigan catches a glimpse of the camouflaged Predator’s silhouette but dismissing it as an effect of the heat.  In the room where the Colombians were arming themselves, Danny notices that one of them has been stripped naked and hung upside down about 40 feet above the floor. Marveling at the strength needed to perform such a task, Danny turns away and the body is pulled up by unseen hands. Outside the Harrigan is met by captain Heinemann (Robert Davi) and told that he disobeyed direct orders. Harrigan argues with him, citing the war they’re fighting an losing in the streets to better armed Colombian drug dealers who also have greater numbers. Adding to the mayhem is another faction the Jamaicans who are also fighting the cops. Back at his precinct Harrigan is lectured by his other captain who informs him that a federal investigation, lead by Peter Keyes (Gary Busey) is not to be interfered with. Keyes claims that his team is trying to stop the Colombian and Jamaican gangs from establishing an empire on the west coast. Harrigan welcomes a new member to his team Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton) a smart mouthed and cocky detective.  In a luxury apartment Ramon Vega the leader of the Colombian gangs is having sex with his girlfriend when they’re interrupted by Jamaican gangsters.  They hang him upside down and cut his heart out as part of a voodoo ritual. The Predator then kills all the Jamaican gangsters, he then skins them all and hangs there bodies from the ceiling.  When Harrigan and his crew arrive on the scene again they are ordered not to enter.  Despite being ordered to wait for Keyes they enter the penthouse apartment where they find the Jamaicans skinned corpses suspended from the rafters the only survivor is Vega’s girlfriend.  Keys arrives with his men and expels Harrigan’s team from the scene not before having words with Harrigan to keep his nose out of his business.  The woman who survived is taken away in an ambulance.  Danny and Harrigan agree to meet at the scene later that night. Danny arrives first and looks around the room. Danny climbs up into the rafters where he spots a small object embedded in an air conditioner.  He pulls it loose and examines it, it appears to be a spear tip of some sort. Suddenly he hears Harrigan’s voice nearby and loses his footing and falls. An arm catches him and Danny looks up to see the Predator holding him by the ankle the Predator pulls him up and kills him.  Harrigan finds himself in Captain Heinemann’s office and reprimanded for Danny’s death and for continuing to interfere with Keyes investigation. Harrigan leaves the meeting angry and confronts Keyes in the station’s lobby, telling him that he’s motivated by revenge and will find Danny’s killer himself.  At the police forensics lab, Harrigan has a doctor examine the spear tip he recovered from Danny’s body. The doctor determines that the metal isn’t found on the Periodic Table of Elements.  Harrigan tells Leona to arrange a meeting with King Willy the leader of the Jamaican gangs.  Harrigan also meets with Jerry who has done some surveillance on Keyes. The survivor of the attack in Vega’s apartment was taken away in a helicopter and Jerry has been unable to find her. As he and Harrigan leave the bar they are met by a large limo filled with Jamaicans. Harrigan joins them and is taken to an alley where he meets King Willy. King Willy a voodoo practitioner tells Harrigan that the enemy they both face comes from a netherworld he can’t understand. Harrigan leaves without answers. Just after he goes the predator jumps to the ground behind Willy and walks through a small pool of water. The water causes an electrical disturbance on the predator’s body and it becomes visible the Predator kills King Willie.  Harrigan goes to the cemetery to pay his respects to Danny. While he’s there, he sees Danny’s necklace hanging from a tree. Harrigan looks around but sees no one and grabs the necklace realizing the predator is stalking him specifically.  On the subway to the slaughterhouse district Jerry and Leona encounter a group of gang members harassing passenger. The passenger pulls a gun on them and the gang members do the same, prompting several other commuters to pull their guns as well.  As Jerry and Leona try to defuse and impending shootout the predator jumps onto the roof of their car and enters it. The Predator kills anyone who possesses a weapon. Leona is able to lead most of the passengers out of the car and to the opposite end of the train. While she does, she sees Jerry shooting at an invisible target. Jerry’s bullets have no effect and he leaps at the predator with a large knife.  Leona pulls the emergency alarm that stops the train and she guides the passengers out of the platform.  She walks back to the last car and finds Jerry and a couple of commuters hung upside down and dead. The predator appears from nowhere and grabs her.  Looking her over with it’s infrared vision he sees that she’s pregnant and lets her live.  Harrigan arrives on the scene and sees the carnage. Jerry’s body is missing, Harrigan follows a blood trail down the tunnel.  He spots the predator ripping Jerry’s skull and spinal column from his body. Harrigan chases it to street level.  He takes a police car and chases it several blocks until he’s stopped by Keyes men. Taken to a high tech command center, Keyes explains that the predator is an alien that uses advanced weaponry. He tells Harrigan about a commando team that encountered another of these creatures in a Latin American jungle. Keyes says that they believe the alien can only track it’s prey using infrared technology and that his team, intending to capture it and study it will wear special suits that will insulate their body heat and make them invisible. At the same time they dust the slaughterhouse with radioactive particles that will make the alien visible. Their ultimate goal is to freeze the alien with frozen nitrogen. The predator comes to the location every couple of days to eat the beef there. Keyes tells Harrigan to stay in the command center and observe. Keyes and his team move into the slaughterhouse they make there way to the second floor of the slaughterhouse. In doing so one of the team members steps on a creaking step which makes a noise the predator hearing this stops and uses a small control panel to adjust it’s vision enhancer, which changes several times until it’s able to see the beams from the lights the team are using. Harrigan tries to warn Keyes that they’ve been spotted but the team is attacked by the predator, which kills nearly all of them. One of the teams sprays a smoke detector with nitrogen setting off the warehouse’s sprinkler system. Harrigan leaves the command center and arms himself and blows down the door just as the predator fires a blast from it’s laser cannon at Keyes. Harrigan shoots at the predator damaging it’s laser cannon. The Predator tries to activate his cloaking system but the water falling from the ceiling prevents him from becoming invisible. Harrigan shoots the predator again several times with a shotgun, blowing it onto it’s back. He approaches it slowly and removes it’s helmet, studying it briefly before it wakes up suddenly and throws Harrigan backwards. The predator finally corners Harrigan and is about to kill him when Keyes intervenes, he tries to blast the Predator back with the frozen nitrogen. Keyes tells Harrigan to retreat just as the Predator throws a smart disk cutting Keyes in half. The predator retreats to the roof of the building, using a breathing mask. It throws its large hunting spear at Harrigan and misses. Harrigan uses the spear to push the Predator and himself off the building, where they both hang onto a ledge. The predator activates a timer connected to a small nuclear charge. Before the charge can go off, Harrigan uses the Predators smart disk to sever it’s arm, deactivating the bomb. The Predator falls down the side of the building and crashes into an apartment bathroom.  It uses an elaborate first aid kit to heal it’s wounds and again retreats. Harrigan follows it, falling into a cavern below the building where the Predators spacecraft has been hidden.  Inside the spaceship Harrigan finds a small shrine of sorts with skulls of humans, animals and aliens. The predator once again attacks Harrigan who fights it off and kills it with its own smart disk. After it falls dead, several more predators appear and carry their fallen comrade off. The last one to leave looks over Harrigan briefly and tosses him a flintlock pistol a trophy from a previous hunt. Engraved on the pistol is the year 1715. Harrigan hears the ship starting up and runs out to cover just before the blast from the engines fills the cavern. As Harrigan walks out of the tunnel he meets one of Keyes’ assistants who upon seeing the haggard Harrigan leaves him as the police turn up.

Danny Glover
Danny Glover is an American actor his films include Escape from Alcatraz (1979), Chu Chu and the Philly Flash (1981), Out (1982), Iceman (1984), Places in the Heart (1984), Witness (1985), Silverado (1985), The Color Purple (1985), Lethal Weapon (1987), Bat 21 (1988), Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), To Sleep with Anger (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Flight of the Intruder (1991), A Rage in Harlem (1991), Pure Luck (1991), Grand Canyon (1991), Lethal Weapon 3 (1992), The Saint of Fort Washington (1993), Bopha! (1993), Maverick (1994), Angels in the Outfield (1994), Operation Dumbo Drop (1995), Gone Fishin (1997), Wild America (1997), Switchback (1997), The Rainmaker (1997), Lethal Weapon 4 (1998), How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998), Beloved (1998), The Monster (1999), Boesman and Lena (2000), 3 AM (2001), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), Saw (2004), The Cookout (2004), P.N.O.K (2005), Manderlay (2005), Missing in America (2005), The Shaggy Dog (2006), Bamako (2006), Dreamgirls (2006), Shooter (2007), Honeydripper (2007), This Life (2008), Be Kind Rewind (2008), Gospel Hill (2008), Blindness (2008), Prana (2008), Night Train (2009), The Harimaya Bridge (2009), Down for Life (2009), 2012 (2009), Mooz lum (2010), Death at a Funeral (2010) and Legendary (2010).    He has appeared in TV series such as Hill Street Blues, Lonesome Dove, ER, Brothers & Sisters, My Name Is Earl and Human Target.

Gary Busey
Gary Busey is an American actor his films include Angels Hard as They Come (1971), The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972), Dirty Little Billy (1972), Lolly Madonna XXX (1973), The Last American Hero (1973), Hex (1973), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), You and Me (1975), The Gumball Rally (1976), A Star Is Born (1976), Straight Time (1978), The Buddy Holly Story (1978), Big Wednesday (1978), Carny (1980), Foolin’ Around (1980), Barbarosa (1982), Didn’t You Hear (1983), D.C Cab (1983), The Bear (1984), nsignificance (1985), Silver Bullet (1985), Let’s Get Harry (1986), Eye of the Tiger (1986), Lethal Weapon (1987), Bulletproof (1988), Hider in the House (1989), (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Point Break (1991), Canvas (1992), Under Siege (1992), Breaking Point (1993), The Firm (1993), Rookie of the Year (1993), South Beach (1993), Warriors (1994), Surviving the Game (1994), Chasers (1994), Drop Zone (1994), Man with a Gun (1995), Steel Sharks (1996), Livers Ain’t Cheap (1996), One Clean Move (1996), Carried Away (1996), Black Sheep (1996), Sticks & Stones (1996), The Chain (1996), Suspicious Minds (1997), Lost Highway (1997, Lethal Tender (1997), Plato’s Run (1997), The Rage (1997), Rough Draft (1998), Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas (1998), Soldier (1998), Detour (1998), No Tomorrow (1999), Two Shades of Blue (1999), Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang (1999), A Crack in the Floor (2000), Glory Glory (2000), Down n Dirty (2000), Tribulation (2000), On the Edge (2002), Sam & Janet (2002), Quigley (2003), Shadowlands (2003), Shade of Pale (2004), Motocross Kids (2004), Border Blues (2004), The Hand Job (2005), The Hard Easy (2005), No Rules (2005), A Sight for Sore Eyes (2005), The Gingerdead Man (2005), Valley of the wolves Iraq (2006), Soft Target (2006), Lady Samurai (2007), Succubus: Hell Bent (2007), Beyond the Ring (2008), Hallettsville (2009) and Freaky Saturday Night Fever (2010).    He has appeared in TV series such as High Chaparral, Bonanza, Kung Fu, Gunsmoke, Walker, Texas Ranger, The Outer Limits, Scrubs and Entourage.

Rubén Blades
Rubén Blades is a Panamanian actor his films include The Last Fight (1983), Crossover Dreams (1985), Critical Condition (1987), Fatal Beauty (1987), The Milagro Beanfield War (1987), Homeboy (1988), Disorganized Crime (1989), The Lemon Sisters (1989), Heart of the Deal (1990), Mo’ Better Blues (1990), The Two Jakes (1990), Predator 2 (1990), The Super (1991), Life with Mikey (1993), A Million to Juan (1994), Color of Night (1994), Al compas de un sentimiento (1996), Scorpion Spring (1996), The Devil’s Own (1997), Chinese Box (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), All the Pretty Horses (2000), Assassination Tango (2002), Imagining Argentina (2003), Spin (2003), Secuestro express (2005) and Spoken Word (2009).

María Conchita Alonso
María Conchita Alonso is a Cuban-Venezuelan actress her films include Solon (1979), Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Fear City (1984), A Fine Mess (1986), Touch and Go (1986), Extreme Prejudice (1987), The Running Man (1987), Con el corazón en la mano (1988), Colors (1988), Vampire’s Kiss (1988), Predator 2 (1990), McBain (1991), The House of the Spirits (1993), Caught (1996), For Which He Stands (1996), Catherine’s Grove (1997), Acts of Betrayal (1997), Footsteps (1998), Blackheart (1998), Shout Out (1998), Dillinger in Paradise (1999), Chain of Command (2000), Knockout (2000), The Code Conspiracy (2001), Kohtalokas koodi (2001), Birth of Babylon (2001), Blind Heat (2002), Heart of America (2002), The Company You Keep (2003), Chasing Papi (2003), Newton’s Law (2003), English as a Second Language (2005), Smoke (2005), Material Girls (2006), The Dead One (2007), Richard III (2008), The Art of Travel (2008), Return to Babylon (2008), The Red Canvas (2009), LA Gigolo (2009), Dark Moon Rising (2009) and Round Trip (2010).  She has appeared in TV series such as Fantasy Island, Knight Rider, Chicago Hope, F/X: The Series, The Outer Limits, CSI: Miami and Desperate Housewives.

Bill Paxton
Bill Paxton is an American actor and film director his films include Crazy Mama (1975), Fish Heads (1980), Stripes (1981), Taking Tiger Mountain (1983), The Lords of Discipline (1983), Mortuary (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), The Terminator (1984), Weird Science (1985), Commando (1985), Aliens (1986), Near Dark (1987), Pass the Ammo (1988), Riding Fast (1988), Slipstream (1989), Next of Kin (1989), Back to Back (1989), Brain Dead (1990), The Last of the Finest (1990), Navy SEALS (1990), Predator 2 (1990), The Dark Backward (1991), One False Move (1992), The Vagrant (1992), Trespass (1992), Boxing Helena (1993), Indian Summer (1993), Monolith (1993), Tombstone (1993), Future Shock (1994), True Lies (1994), Frank & Jesse (1995, Apollo 13 (1995), The Last Supper (1995), Twister (1996), The Evening Star (1996), Traveller (1997), Titanic (1997), A Simple Plan (1998), Mighty Joe Young (1998), U-571 (2000), Vertical Limit (2000), Frailty (2001), Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams (2002), Resistance (2003), Spy Kids 3D Game Over (2003), Club Dread (2004), Haven (2004), Thunderbirds (2004), The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005) and The Good Life (2007). His films as a director include Frailty (1999) and The Greatest Game Ever Played (2006).   He has appeared in TV series such as Miami Vice, Tales from the Crypt, Frasier and Big Love.

Robert Davi
Robert Davi is an American actor he is best remembered for his role as the villain Franz Sanchez in the James Bond film Licence to Kill.  His films include Gangster Wars (1984), City Heat (1984), The Goonies (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Wild Thing (1987), Action Jackson (1988), Die Hard (1988), Traxx (1988), James Bond Licence to Kill (1989), Peacemaker (1990), Maniac Cop 2 (1990), Amazon (1990), Predator 2 (1990), Under Surveillance (1991), Legal Tender (1991), The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991), Wild Orchid II (1991), Center of the Web (1992), Illicit Behavior (1992), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (1993), Night Trap (1993), Son of the Pink Panther (1993), Quick (1993), The November Men (1994), No Contest (1994), Cops and Robbersons (1994), Cyber Vengeance (1995), Codename: Silencer (1995), The Dangerous (1995), Showgirls (1995), The Zone (1995), Absolute Aggression (1996), For Which He Stands (1996), The Bad Pack (1997), Soulkeeper (2001), The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2002), The Hot Chick (2002), One Last Ride (2003), In the Mix (2005), The Dukes (2007), An American Carol (2008), The Butcher (2009), Magic Man (2009), Ballistica (2009) and Game of Death (2010). He has appeared in TV series such as Charlie’s Angels, The Incredible Hulk, Dynasty, Hill Street Blues, St Elsewhere, TJ Hooker, Hart & Hart, The Fall Guy, The A Team, LA Law, Stargate: Atlantis, Nip/Tuck and Criminal Minds.

Adam Baldwin
Adam Baldwin is an American actor his films include My Bodyguard (1980), Ordinary People (1980), D.C Cab (1983), Reckless (1984), 3:15 (1986), Bad Guys (1986), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Hadley’s Rebellion (1987), Cohen and Tate (1988), The Chocolate War (1988), Next of Kin (1989), Predator 2 (1990), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), Where the Day Takes You (1992), Radio Flyer (1992), Cold Sweat (1993), Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon (1993), Treacherous (1993), Bitter Harvest (1993), Wyatt Earp (1994), Digital Man (1995), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Independence day (1996), Lover’s Knot (1996), Starquest II (1997), Patriot (2000), The Right Temptation (2000), Pursuit of Happiness (2001), Above & Beyond (2001), Jackpot (2001), Farewell My Love (2001), Double Bang (2001), The Keyman (2002), The Freediver (2004), Evil Eyes (2004), Serenity (2005), The Thirst (2006), Gospel Hill (2008), Drillbit Taylor (2008), Little Fish Strange Pond (2009) and Browncoats: Redemption (2010).  He has appeared in TV series such as Fallen Angels, VR 5, The Cape, The Visitor, The X Files, Angel and CSI NY.

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