I'm afraid its very difficult to see any positives in this

Rating: 1/10 (4 August 2006)

Quite frankly, I believe that this movie should be in the IMDb bottom 100. It is really that bad. But with so many (suspect) votes, perhaps I should contemplate further to check out any possible positives that this movie has? Some of us like the Alien franchise so much that we would just force ourselves to suffer through this. What could the positives be? The SFX - Paul Anderson promised to not use CGI. He lied. Very bad CGI has been used in important scenes. The rest of scenes ie the Aliens with people in suites are quite convincing looking because they were done by the original SFX team. Despite that, the Aliens behave more like stray dogs and zoo animals than the monsters they are supposed to be. The results are quite embarrassing. The Predators also act like buffoons rather than stealthy killers. In one scene, the Predator runs like a ramp model.
Creativity....should not be confused with dreaming. A Pyramid buried under the Antarctic containing Aliens and all makes this a sort of fantasy film. The realistic horror is what made other Alien and Predator films stand out. With shoddy camera work, poor props and implementation, even the minimal allowance goes away.
Fight scenes...show the Alien tail held by strings and the Predator blades to bend like rubber. Admitedly, this is a very difficult scene to perfect but if you don't have a Cameron like talent, you should not even try. Ultimately, while it starts out good, it ends up like a wrestling match.
That about sums up any possible positives that this movie had and they were really, not positive at all. Everything else in this movie is really bad as other reviews have indicated. Be sure to check out the goofs section too. There are really too many.