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Predator 2 (1990)
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Predator 2 (1990)

Science Fiction, Action, Thriller • 1h 48m

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Best English-friendly & video release

 · updated 11 months ago

Overview

A police chief in the war-torn streets of Los Angeles discovers that an extraterrestrial creature is hunting down residents - and that he is the next target.

Release details

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Length
108 mins
Type
Movie
Alternative Titles
Predator II

Part of Predator

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Director: John McTiernan

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Paul W. S. Anderson

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Directors: Colin Strause & Greg Strause

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Director: Nimród Antal

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Shane Black

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-ray

Director: Dan Trachtenberg

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney 4K Blu-Ray

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Director: Stephen Hopkins

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray

Sources: caps-a-holic (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

Arrow 4K Blu-ray caps

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

4K · Disappointing

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray is disappointing

Audio Notes:

Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray has a replaced soundtrack, see details here

Australia Umbrella Blu-ray and Germany NSM Blu-ray have the original soundtrack intact, don't know which sounds better

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Video format: UHD Blu-ray

Best English-Friendly & Video:

WB 4K Blu-Ray

Director: Stephen Hopkins

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Warner Archive Blu-ray

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Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Criterion Blu-ray/BFI Blu-ray

Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Criterion and BFI very similar

Best Audio:

Fox Lorber DVD

Director: Chris Columbus

Video format: 4K Streaming

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Disney+ has Streaming in 4K

Video Notes:

Fox has Blu-ray

Best Audio:

1995 Fox LaserDisc

Director: Terence Young

4K · Solid
Best English-Friendly:

WB 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

WB 4K Blu-ray despite frozen grain

Best Audio:

UK mix: 1984 CBS Fox VHS Hifi but missing one scene
International mix: WB 4K Blu-ray though source origin is unknown

1995 MGM stereo remix: 1998 LaserDisc and 2000 DVD fix gunbarrel dropout

Director: David Butler

Video format: Only Unofficial Sources

Sources: archive.org (opens in a new tab)

Best Video:

The DVD isn't an official one, and according to a user review on Amazon:

This DVD comes from Archive.org, where the movie can be viewed for free. The original source, comes from the Fox Movie Channel

Director: James Cameron

4K · Disappointing
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox Blu-ray

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Video Notes:

Fox Blu-ray for original cuts without the extra scene added in the re-release and AI upscaling

Newer Blu-ray/4K has the extra scene, but is poor and has excessive AI upscaling

Additional Info:

An additional scene was added to the ending of the movie in the 2022 re-release: https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=493908

Director: Peter Faiman

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Australia Cut: Australia Fox DVD

International Cut: Paramount Blu-ray

Encore Cut: Germany Winkler Film 4K Blu-ray, censored but good encoding

Sources: movie-censorship.com (opens in a new tab)

Upcoming Release:

US Paramount 4K Blu-ray, is the International US Cut and not the Encore Cut

Best Audio:

Australia Cut: Laserdisc

Additional Info:

The film exists in three versions:
- the original Australian cut (~104 minutes at 24fps/~100 minutes at 25fps);
- the American/international version (~98 minutes at 24fps/~94 minutes at 25fps) trimming some exposition in the Outback first half of the film and some shorter extensions of a few seconds in the New York section, altering some of the dialogue – including censoring a "fuck" to "screw" – but featuring one additional dialogue extension not in the Australian version (a comparison of the two cuts can be found at Movie Censorship);
- the Australian Encore Cut (~95 minutes at 24fps/~91 minutes at 25fps) which uses the international version source so it already has those alterations but also removes approximately three minutes consisting of parts of two scenes featuring Mick grabbing the crotch of a cross-dressing prostitute and a later sequence when he does the same thing at a party to a woman with a deep voice (a comparison of the international version and the Encore Cut can be found at Movie Censorship).

Director: Ridley Scott

4K · Excellent
Best English-Friendly & Video:

Theatrical Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray 

Video Notes:

(additional scenes appear to be upscaled)

Best Audio:

Original Theatrical 70mm 6-Track Stereo: Fox 4K Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 4.1)

Original Theatrical 35mm Matrixed Dolby Stereo: 1999 DVD? (2.0 mix on the UHD is a downmix)

2003 Directors Cut: Fox 4K Blu-ray, Fox Blu-ray (DTS-HD MA 5.1)

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: Matthew Vaughn

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

Director: David O. Russell

Best English-Friendly & Video:

Fox 4K Blu-ray

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