first hour descent, potential ending spoiler

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2004)

I just got out of one of the most disappointing films that I paid $7.00 to see. Alien vs. Predator was a film that crossover fans have been waiting to see. Who would win? Predator hunts by infrared, aliens do not give out heat (Aliens reference). Aliens hunt by sight, Predator cloaks themselves.
I will admit, I had enjoyed the first hour of the film, the character development, the set up for the rest of the film. Then the whole movie takes a nosedive into crap. I enjoyed the little nuances of the Alien series (Bishop Weyland, no matter what the debate on his character is, and the knife/hand scene), the team that is split up and has to walk down corridors to escape and is ultimately hunted down by the Aliens (Alien reference), and how the team on the surface is killed off by the predator.
When one of the characters decides to team up with the Predator is where they lost me. For one, the menacing presence of the Predator and given an almost human quality was a horrible move. To see the human siding with the Predator gives the movie's tagline "No matter what side wins, we lose" has no credibility.
A friend had a suggestion to what would have made this film work. Give it a The Thing feel and have them doing a dig on Antarctica and uncovering both species and have all hell break loose. Both species destroy each other while the humans have to find their way out. You can still have all the chestbursters you want. A twist that I thought that might have worked is that the woman who survives happens to be an ancestor of Ripley and maybe have the man be a relative of Arnold's character. It is only an idea.