This time, the director doesn't understand the film!

Rating: Null/10 (31 August 2004)

WARNING! DOES CONTAIN SPOILERS! Oh dear! for a movie that lived in limbo hell and went through so many scripts and directors this really didn't manage to hit the spot. The director clearly didn't understand the Predator mindset, did he? Had he seen predator 1 & 2 or played Aliens Versus Predator 1 or 2? I think not in all cases. Predators are about hunting for honour. When the chap @ the bottom of the shaft whose freezing to death is casually killed, where's the glory or honour in that kill? There is none!
Does the director understand Predator technology, again that's a no. The Predators view humans on heat vision yet they see the shoulder cannons? WHY? These are technology and would be seen on electric view or normal view only, idiot! The director might have known that if he'd played the game. Also, how destruction proof is that Pyramid? If it was blown up by 100 years before by a predator nuke, how is it so intact? Are the film characters totally insane? Millar must be. He kills a facehugger with 1 bullet then wastes 5 more making sure. Why does the main girl pull herself onto a ledge where an alien just was, even if she is hanging over a chasm? From certain death into certain death? Why when the 1st alien is speared by the girl does it not attack with it's arms at all? Why when the predator cuts the aliens head off his knife doesn't melt? Likewise with blades of spinner on facehugger? How come Millar seems to lose his Scottish accent just before he dies? The Queen is bitten multiple times but is fit to go on a rampage? HOW THE HELL does the Queen escape the bomb at all? Why are there so many Aliens? Only 8 people are facehugged! When the bomb is detonated how come there seem to be about 20 aliens in the main chamber as they board the sled? Clearly this film was not researched at all. Aliens and Predator fans will be picking holes in it for years to come. As for the pred-alien at the end? We'll be lucky to see a sequel I think, seeing as how long it took to get this movie on the screen. In the end, the jury is out, everyone must judge the film for themselves. I'm not happy, but it wasn't bloody awful. Just slightly crap.