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Rating: 7/10 (16 August 2004)

Ta-da-bump.
Though the film is full of journeyman script writer dialog, it also has some great scenes and nicely done effects. There are many classic bad movie moments that had the audience I was in howling, especially when the actors point out that `my enemy's enemy is my friend'. (oh yeah!)
The Alien & Predator costumes were not cheap knock-offs though there are SO many technical things wrong with the film it's not really worth listing. If you see this with friends it gives you TONS to talk about afterwards.

/SPOILER ON
It was obvious from the start that the Predator would see how sick Bishop was and pass on killing him  the writer should have stuck with that giving Bishop an edge and a valid reason (for the genre) to survive but NO, the sickly Bishop decides it IS his time to die so he provokes the Predator to bring on a corn ball cliché, anti-climatic shredding. That was one of the weakest moments in the film. If they had left Bishop alive at the end, it would have played into a story thread reinforcing why the Weyland Yutani Corporation was obsessed with capturing its own Aliens. Oh well.
/SPOILER OVER
Is this film worth seeing in the Theater? Maybe, but if you have a decent DVD home theater you can wait to rent it. We went on a Saturday Morning (expecting it to be awful) hauled in a monster bag of popcorn and just had a kick ass time.