Crap!

Rating: Null/10 (15 September 2004)

The Alien series had a nice symbolic resonance of Joseph Conrad's work, hence the Nostromo and Sulaco references, in which you understand that the Alien is not evil, the Company is the evil and driving force while Ripley is an apostle against the Dragon, as it was referred in the underrated third film. I disliked Resurrection, but it had it's moments, courtesy of resurrected Ripley.
Predator movies don't have that symbolical charge, but they where good in narrating a entertaining suspense/action flick, specially the first one. In comics, both Alien and Predator mythos have been studied and amplified always keeping in mind the scenes of the films.
So...Alien vs Predator: Whatever knowledge,talent and art that Riddley Scott, Dan'Bannon, H.G.Giger, Sigouney Weaver, James Cameron, David Fincher and, heck, even Mcthiernan,( plus lots of talented comic book artists and writers) have aborted to the Alien/Predator mythos it's been reduced to a movie witch most brilliant piece of character thinking is: "Enemy of my enemy...my friend!" Duh.
Not to mention that one of the most terrifying film monsters of all time, the Alien Queen, is put in a Scooby Doo cartoon chase. Studio executives and a very bad director has deliberately killed two of the greater monster/sci-fi pieces of history in exchange for a few bucks.
If you care and admire the work on the geniuses here, DON'T SEE THIS PIECE OF CRAP, because it doesn't even come close to a very unfortunate bad fan copy of their work.