The deadliest species finally go head to head.

Rating: 7/10 (8 September 2011)

Now this is a good one. After selling the famous comic book crossover for years, Fox finally decided to bring its greatest intergalactic match-up to life and into the big screen. The players here are truly formidable. One is an insectoid hive creature living a semi-parasitic life style armed with acidic blood, sharp teeth/claws/tail, and an unmatched will to survive no matter the cost. The other is a hulking, crab-faced, infrared-seeing, reptilian humanoid with advanced technology, a strict sense of honor, and a blood lust for sport.
Weyland Industries (the future Weyland/Yutani Corp.) discovers a strange heat signature emanating from an ancient pyramid buried deep in Antarctica. Naturally, a team of various experts, mainly lead by Alexa Woods and Charles Bishop Weyland, go in to investigate and find a lot of intriguing things inside. However, this was all a trap. Many mechanisms inside the pyramid are activated and soon a hibernating Queen Alien spawns several offspring from the bodies of some of the explorers while three teenage Predators come in to hunt them as a manhood ritual. Can our team escape? Even so, whoever wins, we lose.
Many things in this movie are pretty cool. The fights between the two species are awesome, especially the first one with the Celtic Predator vs the Alien named by the filmmakers Grid. The story is especially interesting. It is inspired by the famous book "Chariots of the Gods" written by Erich von Däniken that explains the Astronaut Theory: early humans developed civilizations and built pyramids because they were visited by aliens who taught them these things, which I think is possible. The human characters are pretty likable too, which is hard to do when making creature features such as this. Alexa Woods, for example, is a strong-willed woman with a no-nonsense attitude and Weyland, despite his ambition to make history, does care for people.
I would have liked for this movie to be rated R instead of PG-13, but that's a minor complaint. Overall, this film connects the Alien/Predator story lines pretty well and I do recommend you watch this cool crossover as well as check out the various comics that are out there.