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* SpiritualSuccessor: With the film being a sci-fi action flick set in a near-future metropolis with over worked cops and sensational media, it can easily be argued to be a ''Franchise/{{RoboCop}}'' sequel in spirit.
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* MisaimedFandom: The film might get some viewers who show up to enjoy the frequent gun fights and the fact the almost everyone is carrying a side arm, but this misses the fact that Los Angeles has everyone armed because the city is almost like a war zone and the City Hunter likes this city to begin with because ''everyone'' is packing heat and ready to do battle. It's so miserable in LA that the police force is under staffed and stretched thin fighting street gangs armed with weapons of war, not exactly a fun place to live.
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* MisaimedFandom: The film might get some viewers who show up to enjoy the frequent gun fights and the fact the almost everyone in the city is carrying a side arm, but this misses the fact that Los Angeles has everyone armed because the city is almost like a war zone and the City Hunter likes this city to begin with because ''everyone'' is packing heat and ready to do battle. It's so miserable in LA that the police force is under staffed and stretched thin fighting street gangs armed with weapons of war, not war. Not exactly a fun place to live.
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* MisaimedFandom: The film might get some viewers who show up to enjoy the frequent gun fights and the fact the almost everyone is carrying a side arm, but this misses the fact that Los Angeles has everyone armed because the city is almost like a war zone and the City Hunter likes this city to begin with because ''everyone'' is packing heat and ready to do battle. It's so miserable in LA that the police force is under staffed and stretched thin fighting street gangs armed with weapons of war, not exactly a fun place to live.
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* SoBadItsGood: For some, the film is quite enjoyable due to the over-the-top acting, ridiculous characters such as the Jamaican Voodoo gang, and awful dialogue being ridiculous to the point of being entertaining, not unlike the campier action films of the 80's. The presence of Creator/GaryBusey may help this argument, given the actor's reputation for being bizarre, plus all of the actors in general put in memorable performances and really help the film stand out. In other words, it has BMovie charm with A-movie material.
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* SoBadItsGood: For some, the film is quite enjoyable due to the over-the-top acting, a CowboyCop main character who often ignores laws and orders when it suits him, ridiculous characters such as the Jamaican Voodoo gang, and awful dialogue being ridiculous to the point of being entertaining, not unlike the campier action films of the 80's. The presence of Creator/GaryBusey may help this argument, given the actor's reputation for being bizarre, plus all of the actors in general put in memorable performances and really help the film stand out. In other words, it has BMovie charm with A-movie material.
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** In the beginning of the movie, [[PompousPoliticalPundit Tony Pope]] calls for the mayor to declare martial law in response to the rampant gang violence in the city. Only two years after the film was released, when the city was rocked by the Rodney King riots, units of the Army National Guard and even the ''Marine Corps'' were deployed to help quell the violence.
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*** The video game ''VideoGame/PredatorConcreteJungle'' has the main character, Scarface, exiled for leaving some of his technology behind on a hunt, and is only given the chance to redeem himself some 300 years later by being dropped into the city his carelessness built to clean up his mess. . . facing humans who have adapted Predator tech to serve them. If the City Hunter had survived its encounter with Harrigan, it might have faced a similar fate for leaving behind so much stuff (its damaged plasmacaster and wrist gauntlet, bio-helmet, and spear).
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The film's brutal depiction of near-future Los Angeles as a WretchedHive torn apart by vicious gang warfare, combined with the fact that the central conflict is between said gangs and corrupt, fascistic law enforcement, with both caught in the Predator's cross-hairs, can be enough to make some viewers wish that someone would just nuke the city into oblivion.
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* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The film's brutal depiction of near-future Los Angeles as a WretchedHive torn apart by vicious gang warfare, combined with the fact that the central conflict is between said gangs and corrupt, fascistic law enforcement, with both caught in the Predator's cross-hairs, can be enough to make some viewers wish that someone would just nuke the city into oblivion.
