Nobody Wins in this Battle of the Titans

Rating: 4/10 (7 February 2005)

Your enjoyment of this film will depend on whatever expectations you have going into it. As a fan of the Alien and Predator franchises, I had hopes for this one. They weren't high hopes, but I wanted something that I could at least say, "well, that was pretty cool". I also expected a decent kill factor. Not much of any of the above happened.
Lance Henricksen, in a non "Bishop" role plays a scientist who leads a team to Antarctica to discover what is supposed to be the first pyramid. Naturally, there is reluctance in the main expert (Sanaa Lathan). The team needs to get 300 feet underground to reach this pyramid and avoid any other explorers on the same mission. Little do they know that the other "explorers" are about 8 feet tall and comes from outer space and carrying many sharp weapons and ugly fangs. Apparently the Predators want this pyramid as well. This pyramid is being guarded by some other bad asses. Those would be the Aliens led by big bad mama. For reasons that are explained not very well, the two species don't like each other very much.
The battle scenes are few and far between. There needed to be more of them and they needed to be better. The audiences of these two franchises are very familiar with these guys and something new needed to be offered instead of the typical popping out of nowhere and showing it's big fangs. These bad guys weren't very interesting.
What I did like was the pyramid that they were all stuck in. For someone as claustrophobic as me, I found the pyramid was very very creepy. The scientists all got trapped and stuck in various parts of this thing and guess who was waiting for them.
This movie isn't horrible, but it isn't any good either. It falls in the middle between garbage and an OK rental. If you like either of these franchises, it's worth a look just to satisfy your curiosity (**)