This movie is Sci-Fi, not Action.

Rating: 6/10 (8 February 2005)

If you go to this film expecting to see an action flick, I will tell you right now you will be definitely disappointed. Paul W. S. Anderson is a master of the Science Fiction genre and taking two action legends and mashing them together would surely generate a good movie right? Almost.
As I said before, this movie is Sci-Fi, not action. Anderson's previous movies were all very interesting, and this was no different. I have heard the predators described as being fake-looking, and almost plasticky, however the make-up and animatronics people did a good job in replicating the look of the aliens and the predators from the original movies. I was a big fan of the two franchises, to be honest, and looked forward to watching this film.
I was fairly disappointed with the lack of pacing and suspense in the film. Anderson's other screenplays, Resident Evil I and II, have had similar pacing problems, but he is getting better. That being said, the film was poorly paced and the suspense factor was just not there, relative to Ridley Scott's original masterpiece.
Overall, the film not bad, from a visual effects perspective. With a bigger budget and better pacing by way of script, it could have been much better than it actually was. I would recommend seeing it after the rental price goes down, and not earlier.
I give it 3 out of 5 shoulder-mounted PPC cannons