MILD SPOILERS BELOW
Overall really enjoyed it. It looks fantastic, the action is great, and it has a bunch of cool ideas. BUT it's best enjoyed on the understanding that it's essentially a kids cartoon. It's like if in the late 90s, Fox went to the makers of Aeon Flux and said 'please make us a feature length pilot for a Predator tv show - it can be as cool as you want but it has to be suitable for and appeal to ten year olds'. So it's basically just a load of cool cartoon fights in a story about an angsty teen Predator who crashes on a dangerous planet and winds up in a found family of comedy/cute animal sidekicks, going on adventures and only ever killing robots and aliens. Apart from Aeon Flux, I was periodically reminded of stuff like the Lost In Space movie and Battle For Endor. It's probably the second best Predator movie and, again, I really enjoyed it, but more on the level of Killer Of Killers than the '87 original.
Rating: great fun, if you don't mind the kids cartoon tone.
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