Very poor

Rating: 3/10 (10 November 2005)

I went to see Alien Vs. Predator not expecting much, I'll admit. But come on, I expected better than this piece of end-of-the-summer-guess-we'll-clear-out-the-cutting-room-floor garbage. The plot is generic: a squad of researchers enter an underground temple, which happens to house the malignant alien eggs (sounds a lot like a Sci-Fi original movie, doesn't it). The squad later finds out that the temple is used as Predator hunting grounds and that they've just screwed up bigtime by showing up during the annual hunt. The movie suffers from bad acting (excusing, of course, the great Lance Henrikson), horrible scripting, and the watered-down PG-13 rating the MPAA slapped it with. But a studio has gotta do what a studio has gotta do to maximize profits, I guess. If you're an Alien fan, don't go to see this movie; if you're a Predator fan, don't go to see this movie. If you like exploitative, cheap, no-artistic-merit-whatsoever films, what are you waiting for?