Neat seeing two hostile alien groups duke it out!

Rating: 6/10 (7 May 2014)

***minor spoiler in first paragraph*** With the Aliens, Predators and Promethesus movies all existing in the same continuity, this movie by time-line is the first film that precedes all the course of events, where an expedition of archaeologists, headed by Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksenon) discover an Aztec temple hidden in Antarctica, inhabited by the Alien creatures. Soon, a group of the the Predator creatures arrives from space and to the temple, which is actually a training ground for their species where they hunt the Aliens. What results is a pretty epic battle of the two groups, with the humans being caught in the middle of the war.
I thought the special and visual effects for the creatures were thoroughly done and well-executed, making the creatures look realistic and menacing. It was very neat seeing two film-iconic space creatures, the Aliens and Predators, appear in one movie and take it out on one another.
The acting is OK, nothing too cheesy, and the music score is serviceable. However, I thought the overall plot is slow and lacks the tension and suspense of the earlier Alien and Predator movies. The story is very complicated and you would probably have to watch the movie multiple times to understand everything; I had to read the film synopsis to grasp everything. While the acting was OK, the characters weren't memorable; nothing as epic as the characters in the original Aliens and Predator films.
Again, it is nice seeing the Aliens battle the Predators, and those scenes did provide some good action fun. But overall, this film is very average compared to the earlier films.
Grade C