More Video Game Than Film.

Rating: 5/10 (27 August 2013)

This has a good premise at least: why not team up FOX Studios most iconic monsters to do battle, since it had already been done as a comic book, and the end of "Predator II" implies they share the same universe? Well, it sounds good, but story is surprisingly stale, with characters who are written as cannon fodder, since we barely get to know them, and aren't really developed. Fine actor Lance Henriksen comes off best, playing the ancestor of the man who would go on to build the android Bishop seen in the far superior "Aliens", and who also founded the company that built the Nostromo, which discovered the original Alien. Pity he isn't in the film all the way through...
Plot is thin, though there are some good action sequences, the film feels half-baked, and ultimately leads nowhere.