The product of fourteen years.

Rating: 4/10 (23 April 2005)

Gaudy, lifeless predators take on similar aliens in this dull dud. Paul W.S. Anderson, not to be confused with P.T. Anderson, mortally wounds another franchise. Between him and Uwe Boll, video game movies are getting an even worse name. This could have been a exciting movie. Instead of trying to get old cast members and reference the other movies, the people involved should have spent some time on little things like plot and a good director. Anderson is only interested in making things bigger: longer claws, group of 20 humans, 3 predators, and hundreds of aliens. James Cameron did something similar with Aliens, but Cameron increased the spectacle without decreasing the humanity. Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Tommy Flanagan, Agathe De La Boulaye, and Lance Henriksen are all good, but Lathan is the only one given a chance to do much. The fact that I can write predator and alien and be confident that my reader will know what I speak of, tells a lot about these franchise's popularity. This is a poor substitute for the other films that hopefully will not destroy any chance for further entries in either series.