Predator 2 is a very good sequel. I'd take LA Cops + El Scorpio and his crew of Columbian Drug Lords + King Willie's Vodoo Posse + Busey's Special Ops Govt Team over Naru and the Frenchmen any day of the week. hell, the armed people on the train that were massacred were better than the French dudes in Prey.
While i don't expect the young kids to grasp Predator 2, what they are missing is that the film has pretty much everything we love about action-horror 80's - 90s movies. Blood, Drugs, Boobs, Explosions, horrific deaths, Guns & Monsters. This is peak popcorn late 80s early 90s cinema folks. They hipster millennials aren't supposed to get this, it's not for them, Movies like Prey and The Predator are for them.
Predator 2 is legitimately scary and is a horror movie starring a magnificent Stan Winston Predator and a great cast. It's falls way short from the first, but in terms of horror, it's a little more hardcore than the first and the score really hammers this home. I prefer Silverstri's P2 score over his P1 score. Watch it in the dark alone at 2AM with the surround sound cranked up, give it a honest viewing alone in the dark, remove the hipster 2022 glasses and you will be entertained., It's head and shoulders #2 far above any other Predator film aside from the original masterpiece.
