Tagline(s): | If You See It, You're Already Dead |
A New Breed of Predator |
Correctly suspecting that whatever's going on is much worse than the typical serial killer or animal attack, the military quietly sends in an elite special forces team to investigate. They discover that the alien is both invisible and nigh-invulnerable and are slaughtered to a man.
A group of paranormal investigators also suspect that whatever's going on merits investigation. They don't have an elite special forces team, so they hire a bunch of psychotic and unreliable mercenaries. But they also know one thing the spec forces guys didn't: There was an earlier attack years before and that attack had a survivor. Her name is Kate and she's confined to a psych ward. But she's not insane -- she's just psychically connected to the monster. The paranormal investigators bust her out of the psych ward, round up their mercs, and head out to the forest to investigate.
Meanwhile, special forces officer Lorenzo Lamas and his partner Guy Who's Not Lorenzo Lamas are detailed to a secret government lab where an alien is being detained. The scientist in charge of the lab tells them that this alien is probably related to the missing spec forces team. Then the alien escapes and Lorenzo and Not Lorenzo have to blow up the lab to save the lab. That done, it's time to hop in a chopper and fly out to the forest to try to track down what happened to the missing team.
Back in the other sub-plot, the paranormal investigators and their pet mercs find the cave and the treasure. The mercs figure they've just hit the jackpot, but Kate convinces the investigators that if they take the treasure they'll be killed by monsters, and the mercs are ordered to leave it alone. Instead, everybody goes and makes camp outside the cave. After some kinky sex, some of the mercs decide that this is a stupid plan, so they kill most of the investigators and go back to the cave to steal and steal the treasure. This pisses off the alien, who comes down to the camp and kills a bunch more of them.
Fortunately, at this point Lorenzo and Not-Lorenzo show up in their helicopter. Yay! Rescue! Then the alien shoots down the helicopter. But, at least the two sub-plots can finally merge. However, Kate and what remains of her party are unable to find the giant burning helicopter wreck a couple hundred feet from them and instead wander off in the other direction, trying to hike out of the forest on their own. The alien follows and picks them off one by one. Lorenzo and Not Lorenzo follow the alien, which ambushes and kills Not Lorenzo. Finally, Lorenzo catches sight of Kate and the surviving mercs and the alien kills him in a desperate, but successful, bid to make his sub-plot completely irrelevant to the rest of the movie.
All that remains is the climactic final showdown where the alien kills the surviving mercs before getting offed by Kate, who returns to civilization just in time to see the rest of the alien invasion force land.