A predator sequel ( I suggest you read, despite spoilers) If your an Alien or Predator fan)

Rating: 6/10 (24 August 2005)

If your a huge Alien fan, then turn back and move away from your copy of this movie. This is by no means a prequel to the Alien Saga and it basically ruins any respect you would otherwise have for the intelligence of the Aliens set up in the Alien series. No fan of Alien could possibly accept that they are only bread for hunting. We know that an Alien would cleverly kamikaze it's self on a spaceship if it meant its own prey, and for that matter way of survival, had no way of escaping with out it (see Aliens). Preditors however, are set up in this story to be the creators of every civilisation on earth, and we are more or less told that they already own the world as they were treated like Gods when they first arrived. This is all very far fetched especially the part where we are told they only return once every hundred years to breed and then kill Aliens, but this is total horse s*it because the first two Predator films are set in the 70s and both depict human slater. If this film were the introduction of Aliens and a sequel to the popular Preditors it would have definitely had a bigger impact, it doesn't give any further information on the Aliens and totally blows away anything you thought you knew about the Preditors. I enjoyed this film for its special effects, mostly real not CGI (phew), a 3rd chance to see the alien queen was nice even if the story was so lacking and it was cool that they tried to give it a spin at the end showing an alien bursting out of the Predator with a Predator mouth. This could mean one of two things, this is either a sequel opener for AVP, or it is a really bad explanation of how the Alien escape and later settle down waiting for Ripley and co. If this is really how the Aliens escape the clutches of the Preditors, how come they don't have predator faces in the other ALien films, as you would assume they would if the only one left living had that DNA.
(Sigh) Over all this film is utter rubbish from a plot view and it by no means meets predator standards, let alone Alien which in my opinion is worlds better than Predator in the first place. This film would need a pretty amazing sequel if it doesn't want to risk being forgotten for ever by the majority of AVP fans.