missed opportunity

Rating: Null/10 (22 September 2004)

the idea .. awesome
the result .. tame
A film bout Alien versus Predators should have been exactly that. Epic battles between the two civilisations, insights into their culture, technology, history and worlds.
Why even have humans in a film entitled AVP ??
This should have been more like Starship Troopers in its scope , with effects done by the Pitch Black/COR people.
Instead we have some hidden temple in the ice on Earth. Two Predators die in about ten seconds. Some people, we only ever care bout the Irishman and the woman, belatedly. OK, the allusion to Weyland is a nice take.
Basically, a totally missed opportunity imo to make a real cgi epic from a non human objective , ie pick a side .. alien or predator