what where they thinking?

Rating: 3/10 (30 April 2006)

I give this film a three only for the special effects. As a fan of both characters films and also the Dark Horse novels, I can't figure out where this story came from. The passing of time is well marked in this film and conflicts with the sequence of events. There is no time for what is shown to actually be occurring. If the minutes weren't counted for the viewer, maybe we could let this slide, but it drives me mad. The variations in size of the alien from one scene to the next is also irritating. The predators look good, although they are not portrayed as sharp as they should have been. And wasn't it established in the first Predator film that they come when it's really hot? Not every 100 years. The blatant disregard for all established information from the previous films drives me mad. Both story lines had great possibilities for a vs. film, and to just throw that all away for this ??? That, and why, oh why, is Bishop (Lance Henrikson) in this film? Hell, why not have Ripley ? We would at least care about her a little more.