Why, Why, Why????

Rating: 2/10 (13 December 2004)

... that was all that I could think of most of the time. What an awful film! Bad bad bad script: We don't get what we paid for - or we get to much! For instance: Why does everything has to take place in a pyramid under the ice? Okay, I swallow that one. But why does this thing has to move like "The Cube"? Just to get a reference to another film of the director? The answer of somebody who liked the film was: "Where else?". And all the characters that the viewer might identify with? They all die a silly unnecessary death - but not unless they pump a little flat character into the fodder - "I got children.". More character is not necessary... It is such a bad script, it screams.
Okay, bad script - enough of that. But what is it, that I - the paying fan - wants to see? The fight!!! I want to see the fight of the ultimate biological weapon and the ultimate hunter! But no such thing. Two Predators are killed in less than half a minute. Aliens are killed by the dozen. Listen, I don't want to see the kill, I want to see a glorious fight.
When there is a fight the camera is whirling like it was tied to a mustang with barb wire on his genitals. Thus, I - the humble viewer - make no sense of the whole she-bang.
I got to admit, a few nice references to the old alien movies (gets a point for that). But the silent terror, the feeling of claustrophobia and of fear is replaced by a video-clip mixture of mediocrity and below.
I wasted money and time. I wish I could get both of it back...