Ever wonder what Predator would have been like if Wings Hauser had played Dutch, Stan Winston hadn't been available for creature designs, and the budget had been severely cut? Well here's the answer... the third Watchers movie, which rips off Schwarzenegger's movie something rotten.
Hauser plays wrongly jailed Major Ferguson (the same character played by Marc Singer in Watchers II), who agrees to lead a covert clean-up mission in a central American jungle in exchange for his freedom, back pay and reinstatement in the army. He and a team comprising of other desperate ex-military convicts arrive at the designated location only to discover that they have been duped: they are being used in a field test for Project Aesop, the men (and one woman) hunted down by the mutant killing machine known as the Outsider.
There is not an ounce of originality in the plot: it's Predator meets The Dirty Dozen meets Watchers II, meaning that it also features Einstein, the super-intelligent doggy that can read and write. And it's every bit as dumb as that sounds. Fortunately, the film delivers a reasonable amount of cheapo gore, as the Outsider rips apart it's victims, and there's some enjoyment to be had from the sheer gall of the writers as they blatantly rip-off key moments from Arnie's classic, and from the cheeziness of the hilarious rubber monster.
It's all so cheap and trashy that I can't hate on it too much. 5/10.
