Pathetic. Many spoilers!

Rating: 4/10 (6 March 2005)

OK,this franchise had SO MUCH POTENTIAL! Pathetic is what this turned out to be. All the Alien and Predator movies were R, so this SHOULD have been NC-17! Anyway, to start the pathetic story lines and complete disregard for both franchises, I will pick apart the movie piece by piece.
#1. Predators love it when the weather is sweltering. So the setting is in Antartica. Perfect.
#2. Aliens will not attack a host. So the queen does her best to off the impregnated Predator. Right on!
#3. Aliens generally take days if not a week or more to develop once implanted in the host. These take less than 10 minutes. Awesome!
#4. The Predators can tell if someone or something is a host. So they take it aboard their ship. Par for the course.
#5. The queen is kept chained under frozen water to survive for long periods of time. So what do they to "kill" her? They chain her under frozen water to a water tower. Now we have an opening for a crappy sequel. A V P 2 h e r e w e c o m e . I c a n ' t w a i t .
#6. It "explains" that humans are told to build the pyramids to use for the hunt. No humans live on Antartica, except by PURE chance and the Predators know that. So why on Earth build a pyramid there??? Brilliant.
#7. Weyland Industries travels millions of miles from earth hundreds of years in the future to get some Aliens when there are plenty right here in Antartica? Come on. The modern day setting was a complete waste.
Good points in the movie.
Only 1. The Predator "teamed" up with the chick to fight some Aliens because she was able to cap one, and got the Predator's respect. I can see that happening.
All in all, a totally wasted effort that had so much potential, yet was so horribly done. This could have been a movie for the ages, instead it was a big steaming pile.