A horrible effort at an easy movie.

Rating: 1/10 (24 August 2004)

I did not expect this movie to be good, but I did not expect it to be that bad. I have to be harsh on it because this may have been the easiest movie of all time to make good. All Paul Anderson had to do was adapt the first comic series. That's all. He could have also realized that after 2 Predator movies most people know what they look like and show us the Predator's face early on and try...TRY... to get us to care whether he lives or dies. We could have seen some interaction,conflict, respect, whatever between younger and older Predators. This was done in the comic book series, and it was good.
By using the comic book setting, on another planet where humans have set up a mining and ranch town, Anderson could have spared us another pyramids built by aliens movie. That premise should be officially banned from any future use. The time spent setting that up could have been spent on Predator culture. Here was a chance to showcase their warrior culture much like what was done with the Klingons in Star Trek.
But in the end I'm not surprised. This is the same guy who ruined Resident Evil. And did anyone notice that AVP was essentially the same movie? He even used similar 3D map pull outs to show where the team was. He even had the same actor who was laser diced in RE get caught in the razor net. There was also the same terrible fight choreography. At least the boom mikes didn't creep into the scenes.
This was too bad to even be a B movie. 1 out of 10, and that's because I saw it using a free ticket (that I want back).
Paul, if you are out there, MST3K was canceled; stop making movies for them.
Stop making movies period.