special effects were good but plot, acting and execution all lacked

Rating: 3/10 (7 May 2005)

The movie was based off of an idea which had a lot of potential, but it was one of those ideas that had to be done right or else it would be terrible. Well they sure didn't do it right and they failed on many other things besides the plot as well. Even the cinematography was poor at times.
I'm not even going to start on the plot because i could go on about that for hours because of how ridiculous it was. I was laughing through out the entire movie because of the story and because of the way things lined up within the story. I will mention the biggest downfalls i found and why.
*SPOILERS* kind of
The first major downfall of the movie is the very beginning where they immediately make the movie look like a cheap horror flick. The man runs through the town with no help being chased by an unknown fiend and eventually gets cornered and killed. The very first scene of the movie and i was already cringing.
The second major downfall was having a pyramid 2000 feet below the surface on Antarctica that was made by, not one ancient race, but three all putting in their special styles like some sort of co-op architecture project. I found this to be completely ridiculous along with the fact that these archaeologists knew all three of the ancient hieroglyphs.
The Third and by far the worst is the relationship between the Girl main character(i don't even know her name) and the predator. Girl gives predator gun. Predator walks away. Girl yells at him for walking away with out her. He makes a spear and shield for her out of a dead alien. The run away into battle together like a couple of old buddies would. For some reason i don't buy it. Their relationship continued to be dumb through out the rest of the movie and for a minute there i thought they were going to kiss. if any thing destroyed the movie it was this. I'm not saying that the predators can't be sympathetic, because they were at least in the second one after the main character killed one of their own, they saw he was a great warrior and spared his life. But that doesn't mean that they would join up arms with one just because she gave him his gun back.
If you haven't seen this movie, don't. Inless you are going to watch it with your friends specifically to make fun of it. I think that a 12 year-old would enjoy this movie, but once you start getting any more mature than that it makes you want to cry. I love both the Alien series and the predator series, even the game is awesome. But this movie lacked all the elements that made those movies good besides the good effects. 3 out of 10 stars