Freddy & Jason kick Alien & Predator's a**

Rating: 4/10 (15 April 2007)

What made "Freddy vs. Jason" an entertaining, if mindless, movie is that they cut to the chase and in about 90 seconds explained how Freddy and Jason got to the same place. The problem with "Alien vs. Predator" is, it takes them about 90 minutes to do the same thing. Sure, there are some nice kills during the 90 minutes -- some woebegone expedition to the Antarctic stumbles upon the Predators and two-thirds of the crew don't make it to the movie's second hour. Some Aliens swing by to take care of most of the rest, and finally we have the sole survivor, Sanaa Lathan, teaming up with a weary Predator to kill the rest of the Aliens, including a Queen Bee Alien who's about the siz of a T-rex. In between there are a few chestburster scene -- you can't have an Alien movie with at least one, and a couple of those hideous-looking Predators taking their masks off (trust me, they wear those masks for a reason). I'm not going to lie, the movie could have been done better. You don't sympathize with ANY of the human characters; with the possible exception of Lathan, they're so dense that you're openly rooting for them to get killed. But there are enough kills that you can sit through it without being bored. And of course, the final scene leave the door open for "Alien vs. Predator 2." I give it a 4 out of 10.