this movie is awesome! i cant understand all the bad press!

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2004)

i must admit i was slightly hesitant about seeing this movie, due to the amount of bad press its getting (perhaps due to every franchise's purist fanboys?). However hesitant i was, i saw it and i loved it! The movie is excellent and the much maligned director Paul Anderson really shines in this.
The movie starts off with the detection of a heat bloom (which is later determined to be a structure, pyramidal in shape) under the ice in the Antarctic by a Weyland industries satellite. this leads to the Weyland corporation putting together a team to excavate the site as fast as possible due to their rationale that they cant be the only ones to discover the heat bloom,and thus must be the first to arrive in order to claim the site. the team arrives on site to find an abandoned whaling camp and mysterious shaft down through the ice to the pyramid (provided by a predator space ship in orbit). the team then descends through the ice, to the pyramid, closely followed by a trio of recently arrived preds. the team unwittingly activates a mechanism to release the aliens. there's a twist however: the pyramid realigns itself ever ten minutes. the humans become trapped between the sides and are used as hosts by the aliens (what would you expect them to do?). thus enemies must work together against a common foe.
the acting in this film is first rate, with good performances by sanaa lathan, lance henricksen and raoul bova. other good things include excellent battle scenes between the aliens and predators and some very well directed tension. the bad things about this movie, to me, were that the predators seemed to die really easy to the aliens,(spoiler!) one alien killed two preds! bad things aside Anderson uses the pyramid rearranging itself to keep the audience guessing and create an air of trapped hopelessness throughout. this is a killer movie and an excellent thrilling action summer movie. any and all sci-fan fans should see this.