What?!

Rating: 6/10 (1 February 2005)

In a search for remnants of ancient civilisations, a group of scientists set off for the frozen lands of Antarctica. There, they are entangled in a fight between two races of extra terrestrial life forms, our favourite gremlinoid aliens from the Alien quadrilogy and the famous Predator from the self-tittled Arnold Schwarzenegger hit film. In a film such as this, direction and scenario are everything. The acting really doesn't have anything to do with it. Focusing on that, Paul Anderson's Alien vs Predator is a good movie. Something you'd probably rip off the net but not definitely something you would pay $30 for. Where it fails is that it presents the aliens as pitiful, slave-creatures and the predators as technology-freaks that cannot survive without their precious arsenal. And the tag line "whoever wins, we lose"? What's with that?! What does it have to do with the film?! Good direction, good fx, won't pay money for it, thank you.