Maybe matinée prices. Full price? No way

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2004)

Okay, first off this IS going to have some spoilers...
I was actually pretty impressed with this movie, after seeing "Alien Resurrection" my hopes had pretty much died for the Alien franchise. But then this movie comes along and I think that it just needs a little CPR. The small things that did irk me could just be a product of my overly anal mindset. Or could be some plot points that were either intentionally left out or (gasp) ignored altogether. Like:
1. The growth time for the aliens is way disproportionate compared to the other movies. They basically had full grown aliens after 30 min. Okay, the predators couldn't very well be stomping all the baby aliens for 87 min, not much movie there. And the incubation times were all messed up too. But okay film does have to move along.
2. The first predator goes down without a fight, Second one puts on a good show, and yet is still lacking. I'm thinking, These are the guys who are so bad, that it took Arnold to take them down. But then I remember that "Oh yeah so did Danny Glover". But still, They should have been a bit tougher to bring one down, at least take more than one alien to do it with.
3. The Predators were pretty willing to show themselves to everyone fairly early on, but then again the movie is soooo short I guess they did wait until halfway through.
4. I thought their tagline was "Whoever wins. We lose" not "Neither side is going to win, and to be quite honest, we don't lose either". I mean you'd think we'd wise up after a while with movies like Freddy vs Jason so fresh in our memories. But sure enough, to make one side win would just be impossible. It felt like calling the all-star game a tie all over again. When it comes down to it, I want one of them to win, not this we both win crap.
5. Then again, since we're joining the universes, what happened to all the predators in the future? Logic tells me that since a) the "Alien" side has never mentioned the Predators b) but the 2nd Predator movie shows an Alien skull at the end. Therefore i can only come to the conclusion that the Aliens did win and the predators are extinct at that time. Or maybe no one had even thought of the Predator movies at the time when Alien was being made. hmmmmmm.......
I'm sure the rest of you have seen other things in this movie that you'll point out but for me it wasn't a bad movie. For all the shortcomings, mainly the runtime, It is a good movie. And for each negative point, you could also find a positive point. I am glad I saw it in the theater, just wished it wasn't full price.