Awful, awful, awful movie. Short though.

Rating: 2/10 (13 July 2005)

My God, how this movie blows.
If you have any fond memories of previous Alien installments (even the atrocious Resurrection) don't go see this movie. If you are more of a Predator fan, don't go see this movie. Even if you are a fan of the AvP computer game, don't go see it. Actually you should see this movie only if you are under 13 and suffering severe ADD so the only thing that keeps you calm is constant action, jumping, flashing, firing and shouting, preferably for not much longer than an hour.
Which is precisely what this movie is - an extended computer game cut-scene with paper-thin characters who get killed off one by one in many boring ways including spears and alien tails, and mostly off-camera. There is some "plot", if you can call it that way, and it involves an ancient pyramid on the Antarctica which is used by Predators to hunt aliens for sport, and some humans who just happen to come by. We get introduced to this characters (human, that is) in the first few short expository scenes, and than they go to the pyramid to get slaughtered by whomever they come up first. Eighty minutes later film ends. With what's probably the stupidest "shock" ending of the 21st century.
This movie is the perfect example how a short movie with constant action can also be incredibly boring. I was mildly interested by the introduction, then yawned through the rest of it. It felt like I was watching a movie on fast-forward, which is not so strange, since almost every rule set by previous alien and predator movies is broken so the action wouldn't stop accidentally and the characters could get - God forbid - some depth.
Let me just give you an example what this movie expects are to buy - the gestation period of the alien is probably around 15 seconds, upon which he bursts from the abdomen and needs about 30 seconds more to achieve full growth. And predators are not that bad once you get to know them and kill some aliens in front of them. Blah.
See this movie only if you have about 80 minutes to kill, you've just popped the last bubble on that bubble-wrap and EVERYTHING else is already taken from the video store, including Freddy got fingered.
2/10, and only because I save the 1's for movies which make me physically attack my TV.
P.S. Oh, I forgot to mention that Bishop is in this movie. Ya know, the android from Aliens? Gee, now you MUST see this one, don't you?