slightly entertaining but as a true horror fan I am offended

Rating: 4/10 (24 October 2006)

I grew up with all the 80s and early 90s horror/ sci-fi franchises which of course included the well done Alien and Predator series. Obviously I was both nostalgic and excited upon hearing the release date of this movie. After leaving the theater i must say i was disgustingly disappointed, not just about the movie, but how ignorant and commercial the director, film studio, and distributor attempted to make this film. Right off the bat, PG-13!!!! are you kidding me? You'd be very hard-pressed to find any great horror movie with a lowly child rating such as that, why not make a wicked scary horror movie with a G rating? second of all, this movie was of as the title stated the "war" of two legends. This was not a war, it was a scuffle, no different then you might have over a foul in a basketball game. My suggestion for the sequel, which i expect they'll make, would be some very silent and gruesome violence of aliens and predators slaughtering humans and each other, no ridiculously cheesy dialog, affectionate understanding predators, PREDATOR: the word means kill, not work together for common goal and peace and survival, NO!, Predator means your still gonna try to kill even if all of your limbs have been slaughtered, that was the true Predator of the original two and also the aliens of the first 3, exclude the weird genetic touchy feely alien: resurrection, the sequel will achieve success if its epic and horrifyingly not bad or generic but original and based close to its rich and uneasy roots