If you have a chance... Do Not See This Movie.

Rating: 1/10 (13 August 2004)

Well, I'll try to keep this one spoiler free.
Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. I saw the movie for free, I feel ripped off.
The movie lacks action, suspense, drama, plot, unique and interesting characters, or even any real point. I almost think that the writers and directors never once saw the original films, and only based their movie on, say, Alien Res. and Predator 2. Perhaps Predator for the NES instead. Or maybe the movie posters for the films. I don't know, don't want to know.
The fundamental problem in the movie is that it was almost trying to be mysterious. As if we didn't know what either Predators or Aliens were all about. Most of the action is out of the corner of the eye and fading away, so you're left to your imagination to visualize the gore that happens and they didn't use the Visual Effects Budget on.
The effects themselves are very, very dated. In the largest Aliens scene, they just duplicated the same effect. There is very little new here that wasn't seen in past movies in the way of effects. In fact, there isn't much in the way of effects that hasn't crawled its way into movies over the last 15 or so years.
There is not a character that could not be summed up entirely in more than a sentence. In a lot of cases, no more than 3 words would be needed, such as "Cocky Warrior Woman" or "Explorer turned Fighter." I don't mean this in a good way of distilling them down... that is literally all you will get on that character.
I could probably rant on longer, but hopefully you get the point. If you really want to see this movie, I'd say save yourself some disappointment, go rent a copy of Aliens and a copy of Predator, and imagine what'd it be like if they met. What you come up with will be better than what you'd see in the theaters. Even if it's the Predator and the Queen sitting down to a couple of beers and playing a game of Texas Hold Em. Still better.