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Posted: 10/7/2011
In 1997, Los Angeles is suffering from both a heat wave and a turf war between heavily-armed Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. A Predator observes a shootout between the police and Colombians, watching as Lieutenant Michael Harrigan (Danny Glover) charges into the firefight to rescue two wounded officers and drives the Colombians back into their hideout. Before the police can pursue them, the Predator crashes through a skylight and kills the Colombians using its advanced weaponry. Harrigan and his detectives Leona Cantrell (Mar a Conchita Alonso) and Danny Archuleta (Rub n Blades) enter the building against orders and find the Colombians slaughtered. Harrigan pursues their leader to the roof and shoots him, catching a glimpse of the camouflaged Predator's silhouette but dismissing it as an effect of the heat. Harrigan is rebuked by his superiors for defying orders and is introduced to Special Agent Peter Keyes (Gary Busey), leader of a federal task force purportedly investigating the cartels, and Detective Jerry Lambert (Bill Paxton), the newest member of Harrigan's team.
The Predator next kills several Jamaican cartel members who are in the act of murdering the Colombian drug lord. Despite being ordered to wait for Keyes, Harrigan and his team enter the penthouse apartment where they find the Jamaicans' skinned corpses suspended from the rafters. Keyes expels Harrigan's team from the scene, but Danny returns later to investigate further. He retrieves one of the Predator's speartip weapons from an air conditioning vent, but is killed by the Predator. Harrigan vows to bring down Danny's killer, believing that the perpetrator is an assassin involved in the drug war. A forensic scientist determines that the speartip weapon does not correspond to any element on the periodic table. Harrigan meets with Jamaican drug lord King Willie (Calvin Lockhart), a voodoo practitioner who tells him that the killer is supernatural in nature. After Harr