Predator is a 1987 science fiction movie directed by John McTiernan and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Carl Weathers, Bill Duke, Sonny Landham, Elpidia Carrillo, Richard Chaves and Jesse Ventura.

Violent, cartoonish and energetic the movie was successful enough ($60 m in the US alone) to generate a sequel, Predator 2 in 1990.

Sent on a mission into the jungles of Columbia, an elite military unit find themselves battling a powerful alien hunter (Kevin Peter Hall) with a neat line in weapons and near invisibility.