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Epicenter (2000)
Why the earthquake?
A run-of-the-mill spy/action movie which entertains until the earthquake stops everything for several minutes just for the sake of special effects. If they HAD to have an earthquake in the movie, they could at least have tried to relate it to the plot! It's as though the story was already written and then someone decided they wanted an earthquake movie, picked the script off the shelf and then pasted an earthquake in over the top. A totally confusing mismatch, but take the earthquake out and you have an OK movie.
The building special effects were quite good, but others were rather poor - in fact they showed the same footage of a pipe being forced apart at least three times, once mirrored to make it look like a different one!
Predator 2 (1990)
Oh dear
It's been a while since I saw the original Predator, but I remember enjoying it for the chilling suspense of the unknown enemy hiding in the shadows. In the sequel, the suspense has gone to be replaced by a guy in a rubber suit running around LA. I can't imagine anyone finding this scary (except those who find the swamp-creature/guy in a rubber suit from 1950s B-movies scary), and the menace is diminished still further by the fact that the Predator can now speak English. So much for the unknown enemy!
The plot is such a contrived procession of ridiculousness that I won't even begin to describe it...
(spoiler)
... suffice to say that I can't imagine Arnie being given a small gift by the Predator's friends and relations at the end of the original!