My Enemies Enemy is my Friend

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2004)

Be advised, some spoiler information in this review.
I have good news and bad news. The bad news first, the movie is no Aliens. The Marines aren't here and most humans will not be kicking serious Alien booty. Instead the match-up is mostly Aliens and Predators and I was even a little disappointed in my favorite of the two, the Predators. A couple seemed to die to easily at the hand of an Alien. Why didn't they use invisibility more? Maybe they thought that would have given the Predators to much advantage. They don't even start out with their shoulder mounted artillery.
The good news, plenty of action, special effects, and a decent back story. Some of the characters are kind of cool even if most of them become Alien fodder. When a group is financed by a millionaire, gee he looks like the robot in Aliens, to explore a newly discovered temple buried in Antartica, things slowly build until they realize they are bait in a maze and survival is a full time job. Our heroine, Alexa Woods played by Sanaa Lathan, once again is female as in the previous Alien movies. She finds out that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Best to help the guards rather than let the prisoners escape. Not as cool as Alien, Aliens, Predator, or Predator 2, but still well worth seeing. No doubt they left it open for a sequel.