(He creeped on her too.) Mom finally gets sick of his shit and poisons him.

So... rape, cat death, rat death. Not great. Cindy Williams was the standout as the incredibly sweet girl who totally fails to read the room.

2 stars.

So basically, he lurks around, creeping on Shirley Feeney. She stays around for some reason and even flirts with him. He kills the victim of the rape. Police baffled. He kills his lawyer. Police helpless. He finally gets around to killing Shirley. Neighbor finally has had enough, calls police.

Are we supposed to sympathize with him?

He peeps on and assaults cute lodger. Kills animals. Stalks and commits murder. Did prison make him this way, or was he always a psychopath? The movie doesn't tell us.

Pretty light fare for a Wes Craven movie.

The dog is threatened but doesn't die.

3 stars.

The AI on the suit was pretty advanced even by today's standards. It could even identify "benign" humans vs "malign" non-humans (even though it's never encountered non-humans before).

Lady Devil had no game. "Join me because you want me. See how hot I am?"
"No thanks."
"Uhh..."

The company and its Venusian exploration suit served no purpose other than to give Inventor Man a way to travel to Hell without burning up. I thought maybe the bad guys were Venusians or something trying to interfere with the research. But no, just demons.

There's PLENTY of glowy green Yautja blood. White android blood. Black alien/monster blood. There's dismemberments, decapitations, disembowlments, incinerations, etc. The violence is quite extreme. But since there's no red blood, it gets the PG-13.

No boobs.

I wholly enjoyed this movie.

4.5 stars

The planet is a "Death Planet", yes, but still. EVERYTHING is a predator. Everything is killing everything. I don't think an ecology like that is sustainable.

It's PG-13. But I realize that's not really an issue. There are no humans in the movie. No humans means no red blood.

Yautja are Klingons, Dek is Worf, and now he's just part of the crew. "Oh, Dek, you just have to get in touch with your human side." (Cue humorous musical stinger)

It feels off seeing a movie where the Predator is making jokes. Sorry.

Downsides:
By making the Yautja the MC, you strip the race of their mystique. By the end of the movie, it's yucking it up with the android and Bud, no longer the terrifying, mysterious, merciless, unstoppable killing machine of the past.

I really enjoyed the worldbuilding. I really liked the sideways tie-in to the Alien franchise by making Weyland-Yutani the main villains.

I liked the relationships the Yautja makes with the android and "Bud".

I liked the creative problem solving, and some of the surprising turns in the story.

The screenshots they shared were clearly early passes. The finished product looks fantastic. The Predator's CG was effectively perfect. Most of the CG was spotless.

And not that having a female protag would be a problem, but the Predator is male. So you can get your panties out of their twists.

Only to ruin it completely in the last seconds. So oh well.

Very cool, appropriate movie art. +1 star.
No boobs. -1 star.
Stupid ending. -1 star.

1.5 stars.

Apparently every room everywhere, including homes, has surveillance cameras perfect for scraping video of spookies.

The last act was all over the place. It seemed bored with its own premise and just had the girl go on a killing spree. But then turned around with a really unexpected twist...

According to Wikipedia, only 50% of the US had 911 access by 1987.

Anyway, story made no sense. -1 star.
Some boobs. +1 star.

2 stars.

"No one can know about him! I must bring him back!" Back where? To the fertility clinic? What are you going to do with a stabby spree killer there? Make him an orderly?

Funny that they had to put coins in a pay phone to call the police. Must have been made before 911 was a thing?

Or something?

Where does birth defect son hide the rest of the year? In the attic with his toys?

Funny that a fertility doctor is the expert on handling a maniac spree killer. But it must have made sense at the time. Oh, this was made 4 years after "Halloween".