Incredible! Anderson does extremely well...

Rating: 4/10 (3 September 2007)

to completely omit any suspense, intelligence or excitement from combining two of the adult franchises with the highest longevity value.
First things first, Alien, brilliant. Aliens and Predator, great, Aliens 3, better than it was given credit for. Admittedly Predator 2 was a bit poor, and Alien 4 was... well... tits. While an AvP movie was probably long overdue, the franchises were a little bit weak at the knees and needed a bit of a revitalisation. A film that captured the suspense and aggression of Alien, Aliens and Predator combined could be memorable if even half done correctly.
Step forward Paul WS Anderson. I liked Event Horizon (probably because Fishburne, Neill and Pertwee were eye-catching), but lets face it his other movies are tripe.
There is an awful lot wrong with this film, and to be honest, you could tell exactly what they would be when you saw who was in charge of the project. Contrived dialogue, rushed scenes, bad editing, bad acting, desperately unengaging lambs-to-the-slaughter characters who are capable of collectively superhuman perception and insight (mainly for plot development) and also astonishing stupidity at the same time, a terrible premise, shotgun character development (many scenes have only a handful of quasi-emotive lines batted back and forth with questionable effect) and a total lack of any realism whatsoever. The predators are somehow irritating (you can imagine them being voiced by Chris Tucker if PWSA gets the sequel), they now have the strength to boot people through the air, and can also diagnose heart defects, while the aliens gestate instantly and are fully grown within around 4 minutes. Both creatures have also abandoned the simple virtues that made the first films so great.
Potentially, we could have had a study of two different types of hunter, one with limited scruples, the other with none. Instead it's like a video game, lurching from one 'cool' use of a weapon to another. In fact, you get the feeling that Anderson used the game for reference material, rather than the original films or comics or anything.
If they did the same with Alien and Predator that they did with Batman, i.e. shelve the turkeys and get someone competent in charge, hopefully they could erase the memory of this rubbish