Not nearly as bad as I thought it would be...

Rating: 4/10 (16 August 2004)

I have to say I'm impressed... I thought I'd be watching a comedy, a mockery for what have been the 'Alien' and 'Predator' movies... But NO! Even if the story is childish, I bought it. It doesn't have that 'Freddy vs. Jason' ridiculousness, or the 'I'm the king of the world, MA! Let them alEEns come at me!' touch... after looking the other way at the idea that a handful of 'eGGzpertz' would accept an offer of going alone down a two kilometre tunnel to a hidden pyramid in Antarctica (hmmm... that just left me speechless...) the action starts to develop into an almost believable scenario. The reactions of both the humans and the 'outsiders' is natural... the predators have come here to hunt, the humans are as curious as ever they have been in the Hollywood universe, and the 'aliens' are... well, are as 'alien-ic' as usual.
The stupid ideas of this flick are (in my opinion) as follows: 1. is there a person in the WHOLE world that can read ancient Aztec, Egyptian AND Cambodian writings fluently, and can translate the texts in a matter of seconds into plain English ??!! 2. FROM WHERE do the hundreds of aliens come if they 'infected' only 9 people ??!! 3. SOMEONE thought that if the battle scenes take place in pitch darkness, they will be more interesting and entertaining (it makes as much sense to me as it does to you...) It's ridiculous that half of the movie you have to squint to see what's happening!!
Overall, a movie to watch, because I feel that this first part is only a prelude for 'AvP 2' and the battles to come... ( watch out for the real reason why the predators dug the tunnel... ;) )