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Predator lures the audience into this exact comfort zone. We are introduced to Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer (Arnold Schwarzenegger) and his elite rescue team. They are the best of the best. The casting is a who’s-who of 80s testosterone: Carl Weathers as Dillon, Jesse Ventura as Blain, and Sonny Landham as Billy. They are massive, armed to the teeth, and overflowing with bravado.

The mud-soaked, log-filled arena where Dutch fights the Predator mano-a-mano is pure genius. The Predator, realizing Dutch has no gun, discards its plasma caster and wrist blades to fight with honor—its own warrior code. It’s the only moment in the film where the Predator seems like something more than a beast.