Lightweight but good

Rating: 7/10 (28 February 2005)

It tried to fit too much into too short a timeframe. Didn't allow for much development. Yet it moved along briskly with only a few obvious flaws. The humans died quickly but the predators didn't have many victories either. Two of them bombed out at first encounter and the last was a goner after his first kill. Fortunately for this last one, aliens gestate much slower in a predator than in a human so he was able to rack up a few more scores before his waterloo. I didn't get to count much but it seemed there were more aliens than hosts to create them. And how did big mamma survive the explosion and cave-in? I loved the scene where the alien slithered menacingly up behind a predator, ready for the coup de grace. A flash of movement from the predator and then for a couple of seconds the alien stands transfixed, it's lips making funny little movements. Then it's head falls of and it collapses. OK, so it wasn't original, but still... Overall, it was a watchable movie. Big mamma's down there in the depths somewhere waiting to be discovered... for a sequel? Oh yes, and that middle name of Bishop for the man who played Bishop in two Alien flicks.