Good, but does not live up to expectations, but that may not have been possible

Rating: 7/10 (15 August 2004)

ALIEN VS. PREDATOR (2004)***1/2 Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henrikson, Ewen Bremmer, Colin Salmon, Tommy Flanagan, Joseph Rye
An Archaeological expedition goes awry when they are attacked by Aliens and Predators in the pyramid they are studying which reconfigures every ten minutes.
Paul W.S. Anderson has created a movie that doesn't quite live up to expectations but that may not have been possible given that as Paul W.S. Anderson has said, for him to live up to the expectations of most die-hard fans, he would have to be Ridley Scott, James Cameron and John Mctiernan Fused into one body.
People often ask about how the predators only hunt in warm temperatures, as is said in the first and second predator movies, then why would they go to Antarctica. There are many possible explanations fore this, like how the cold air would obviously enhance their thermal Vision, or how they say in the movie that ancient maps have shown antartica with no ice, and it may have been a tropical climate and the fact that the predators did not want to jeopardise the general human public in utilising the pyramids in cambodia, Mexico or egypt.
But I would have to say that the movie itself is definitely not all that original, it doest so much follow the previous movies as it mimics them.
The movie as a whole is actually pretty entertaining, and i would not call it a B movie, but it is most definitely not an A one either, i would say it is definitely better than predator 2 and alien3 and alien resurrection but it does not come close to the first2 aliens or predator.
i give it ***1/2 stars and my recommendations on seeing it even if you are not a fan of the genre,if only to fund a sequel to this or the predator series i am disinterested in another alien movie cuz the last 2 sucked, so i give predator one more chance.