Fails the Bechdel test
Predator 2
1990. Directed by Stephen Hopkins, written by Jim Thomas and John Thomas.
The Bechdel test
Bechdel score
1 / 3
Fails
-
Yes
1. At least two women
9 women characters. 5 of them speak. -
No
2. Who talk to each other
Our parser found no scene where two women talk to each other. -
No
3. About something besides a man
Not reached: the film fails an earlier rule.
Second opinion
Agree bechdeltest.com readers give it 2 out of 3.
The film
LAPD lieutenant Mike Harrigan and his cocky detective partner Jerry Lambert soon realize that what seemed a bloody feud between voodoo high priest King Willie's Jamaican gangs and Ramon Vega's Colombian drug gang is actually the work of a scary third party. Peter Keyes's federal team shields the crime scene even for the LAPD, but after forensics proves it must be an alien, who keeps making victims, the chase brings them all together.
- Released
- 21 Nov 1990
- Genres
- Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- IMDb
- 6.3 / 10
- Metascore
- 46 / 100
- Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total
- Elsewhere
- View on IMDb
Starring, by lines spoken
- Women
- Men
- Not in the cast list
- Bigger name, more lines
- Harrigan 142 lines, man
- Jerry 43 lines, man
- Keyes 37 lines, man
- Leona 34 lines, woman
- Danny 23 lines, man
- Pilgrim 19 lines, man
- Edwards 17 lines, woman
- Pope 11 lines, man
- Garber 10 lines, man
- Technician 10 lines
Full cast, 71 people
- Danny Glover as Lieutenant Mike Harrigan
- Gary Busey as Peter Keyes
- Rubén Blades as Danny Archuleta
- María Conchita Alonso as Leona Cantrell
- Bill Paxton as Jerry Lambert
- Robert Davi as Captain Phil Heinemann
- Adam Baldwin as Garber
- Kevin Peter Hall as The Predator
- Kent McCord as Captain B. Pilgrim
- Morton Downey, Jr. as Tony Pope
- Calvin Lockhart as King Willie
- Steve Kahan as Sergeant
- Henry Kingi as El Scorpio
- Corey Rand as Ramon Vega
- Elpidia Carrillo as Anna
- Lilyan Chauvin as Irene Edwards
- Michael Mark Edmondson as Gold Tooth
- Teri Weigel as Colombian Girl
- William R. Perry as Subway Gang Leader
- Alex Chapman as Subway Gang
- Gerard 'Gus' Williams as Subway Gang
- John Cann as Subway Gang
- Michael Papajohn as Subway Gang
- Louis Eppolito as Patrolman
- Charles Haugk as Charlie
- Sylvia Kauders as Ruth
- Charles David Richards as Commuter
- Julian Reyes as Juan Beltran
- Casey Sander as Federal Team
- Pat Skipper as Federal Team
- Carmine Zozzora as Federal Team
- Valerie Karasek as Reporter
- Chuck Boyd as Reporter
- David Starwalt as Reporter
- Abraham Alvarez as Reporter
- Jim Ishida as Reporter
- George Christy as Reporter
- Lucinda Weist as Reporter
- Richard Anthony Crenna as Paramedic
- Billy 'Sly' Williams as Paramedic
- Paulo Tocha as Detective
- Jsu Garcia as Detective
- DeLynn Binzel as Hooker
- Tom Finnegan as Officer
- Patience Moore as Officer
- Kashka as Jamaican
- Jeffrey Reed as Jamaican
- Carl Pistilli as Cop on Phone
- Vonte Sweet as Sweet
- Ronald Moss as Jerome
- Brian Levinson as Brian
- Harri James as Leona's Friend
- Beth Kanar as Woman Officer
- Paul Abascal as Cop
- Michael Wiseman as Cop
- Thomas Rosales Jr. as El Scorpio Gang Member (uncredited)
- Charles F. FitzSimons as OWLF Task Force Agent (uncredited)
- Hal Rayle as The Predator (voice) (uncredited)
- David B. Levinson as King Kong (uncredited)
- Eric Mansker as Jamaican Gang Member (uncredited)
- Vladimir McCrary as Jamaican Gang Member (uncredited)
- Manny Perry as King Willie Gang Member (uncredited)
- Beverly Overstreet as Girl at Fire Hydrant (uncredited)
- Walter Smith as Train Passenger (uncredited)
- Wyatt Weed as Boar Predator (uncredited)
- Philip Weyland as Man in Crushed Car (uncredited)
- Scott Cranford as AWF Team Member (uncredited)
- Cody Glenn as SWAT Team Member (uncredited)
- Robert Hammond as Cop (uncredited)
- Frank Woods as Remote Broadcast Producer (uncredited)
- Ron Stein as Train Passenger (uncredited)
Who talks, scene by scene
Lines of dialogue in every 3 scenes, start to finish. Women above the line, men below. 5% of lines come from characters we couldn't match to the cast list and aren't shown.
Women
Men
Scene 1 Scene 128
Hover, tap or tab to a bar to see those scenes: where they happen and who's talking.
Show the numbers
| Scenes | Women's lines | Men's lines |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 4 to 6 | 0 | 8 |
| 7 to 9 | 0 | 5 |
| 10 to 12 | 0 | 9 |
| 13 to 15 | 2 | 16 |
| 16 to 18 | 0 | 8 |
| 19 to 21 | 0 | 22 |
| 22 to 24 | 3 | 30 |
| 25 to 27 | 0 | 5 |
| 28 to 30 | 2 | 14 |
| 31 to 33 | 5 | 37 |
| 34 to 36 | 3 | 9 |
| 37 to 39 | 0 | 0 |
| 40 to 42 | 0 | 0 |
| 43 to 45 | 0 | 8 |
| 46 to 48 | 0 | 0 |
| 49 to 51 | 0 | 12 |
| 52 to 54 | 2 | 6 |
| 55 to 57 | 12 | 21 |
| 58 to 60 | 0 | 14 |
| 61 to 63 | 1 | 5 |
| 64 to 66 | 9 | 13 |
| 67 to 69 | 5 | 8 |
| 70 to 72 | 0 | 0 |
| 73 to 75 | 9 | 8 |
| 76 to 78 | 0 | 8 |
| 79 to 81 | 0 | 1 |
| 82 to 84 | 0 | 1 |
| 85 to 87 | 2 | 29 |
| 88 to 90 | 0 | 2 |
| 91 to 93 | 0 | 1 |
| 94 to 96 | 0 | 0 |
| 97 to 99 | 0 | 1 |
| 100 to 102 | 0 | 11 |
| 103 to 105 | 0 | 4 |
| 106 to 108 | 0 | 1 |
| 109 to 111 | 0 | 5 |
| 112 to 114 | 0 | 6 |
| 115 to 117 | 1 | 0 |
| 118 to 120 | 1 | 0 |
| 121 to 123 | 1 | 2 |
| 124 to 126 | 0 | 8 |
| 127 to 128 | 0 | 1 |
The evidence
- Straight from the script
- Counted from the script and the credits
Tap an exhibit to open it.
Exhibit A: every 100 lines
Out of every 100 lines with a known speaker, 14 are women's.
58 lines from women, 342 from men.
- Women
- Men
Exhibit B: who's in it
9 women and 50 men in the cast. 5 women and 22 men from it get lines.
Characters
With lines
- Women
- Men
Exhibit C: who gets heard
The first woman speaks at line 34 of 422.
The longest stretch with no woman speaking runs 62 lines.
Every line of dialogue, first to last
- First line by a woman
- Longest stretch with no woman speaking
Words spoken
Women speak 15% of the words (1,041), men 85% (6,121). Women have 14% of the lines, so their lines run longer than men's.
Exhibit D: the test the other way
Two named men talk to each other about something besides a woman. It passes the reverse test.
Conversations between two named characters
Two women
0
Two men
42
Exhibit E: behind the camera
3 of the 14 people in these jobs are women.
Across the whole crew, 14% of the people whose gender is listed are women.
- Directed by
- Stephen Hopkins (man)
- Written by
- John Thomas (man), Jim Thomas (man)
- Produced by
- Lawrence Gordon (man), Joel Silver (man), John Davis (man)
- Shot by
- Peter Levy (man)
- Edited by
- Bert Lovitt (man), Mark Goldblatt (man)
- Music by
- Alan Silvestri (man)
- Production design by
- Lawrence G. Paull (man)
- Costumes by
- Marilyn Vance (woman)
- Cast by
- Jackie Burch (woman), Ferne Cassel (woman)
The crew, department by department
-
Other crew
5 women, 54 men, 32 not listed
-
Sound
4 women, 30 men, 14 not listed
-
Production
8 women, 8 men, 5 not listed
-
Visual Effects
2 women, 9 men, 8 not listed
-
Camera
0 women, 10 men, 8 not listed
-
Art
1 women, 9 men, 6 not listed
-
Editing
1 women, 7 men, 4 not listed
-
Costume & Make-Up
1 women, 5 men, 4 not listed
- Women
- Men
- Gender not listed on TMDB
Exhibit F: how old the stars were
Women: 35 on average. Men: 42 on average.
The top-billed cast, at the film's release.
Women
María Conchita Alonso 35
Men
Adam Baldwin 28, Bill Paxton 35, Kevin Peter Hall 35, Robert Davi 39, Rubén Blades 42, Danny Glover 44, Gary Busey 46, Kent McCord 48, Morton Downey, Jr. 57
Exhibit G: the money
It made 1.6 times what it cost.
- Budget
- $35 million
- Box office
- $57.1 million
From TMDB, not adjusted for inflation.
About this analysis
Our parser read the script: 128 scenes and 422 lines of dialogue. The bechdeltest.com rating comes from that site’s readers. How the test works
