Eh...okay I guess...

Rating: 4/10 (13 August 2004)

This movie should really be called "HUMANS and a little bit of Alien Vs. Predator." But that's what you expected right? Unfortunately Paul W. S. Anderson is a very gifted storyteller (I thought the whole Predators in pyramids hunting Aliens every 100 years, plot was very clever), but he sucks at character development. Every character in this movie was so one dimensional that you couldn't wait for them to just shut up and get off the screen. Particularly the protagonist chick from "Blade." Why couldn't they make her an older more bad-ass chick like Ripley? Watching this girly `ice-climber' team up with the Predator (no, I'm not kidding) makes you want to throw up. But besides that this movie is, well, okay I guess. The fight scenes between the two species were all kinds of cool, the setting of an old Aztec/Egyptian/Some other culture I don't remember pyramid works beautifully. It's a very cool and creepy environment. What sucks is the PG-13 rating. I didn't cry when I heard about this because I thought that it was all going to be monster violence that for some reason the MPAA feels kids can see. But unfortunately there are a million would-be-cool gory scenes that were cut too short. If people didn't like to see Aliens killing humans then all the other "Alien" movies would have flopped. If this flick had more `fun' violence and gore then it would be easier to forget all the stupid things going on (like the Alien head attached to her arm, what is she going to do with that? Have a puppet show?) But once again I found myself blown away by the special effects. They used a perfect combination of puppets and CGI, I'm so glad that we weren't forced to watch cartoon eggs open up and stuff. But what everyone is going to cry about (myself included) was the before mentioned human chick and Predator teaming up. I really thought that they were going to make out by the end of it, and when I saw their silhouettes running side by side like Batman and Robin in a Joel Schumacher film, I wanted to get up and leave. But the movie really isn't as bad as it could have been, just make sure you go see it when you're drunk or something and make sure you go with that friend you like to make fun of movies with. Grade: C -