This Movie should have never been made (spoiler)

Rating: 3/10 (17 August 2004)

I writing this review in response to another reviewer who claimed this was an excellent action flick: Sir, you couldn't possibly be any further from the truth. This movie was doomed from the very beginning. First of all the movie takes two of the greatest of Hollywood villains and tries to choose a victor which is extremely hard to do and bound to leave some unsatisfied. Also, they did an excellent job on the costume design in the original predator movies which, sadly, was changed in this movie. In the fight between the aliens and the predators, they had Alexa Woods, played by Sanaa Lathan, fight on the side of the predator. First of all having humans pick a side is questionable, but if you going to do it cast The Rock or Vin Diesel NOT Woods. Also, at the end, Woods is made an 'honorary predator' which is probably the cheesiest scene in the entire movie and maybe on any action movie this year. on a more general level the movie is exceedingly predictable, I could basically map out who was going to die and when after the first 20 mins of the movie. It was supposed to be suspenseful and yet it didn't keep me on the edge of my seat at all. Finally, considering how powerful the villains are, the final battle was very disappointing.
Essentially this movie is a sequence of action scenes with out any logical or rational explanations from one action scene to the next. I gave this movie a 3 and I was being generous.