Only the penguin scored points with me.

Rating: 3/10 (19 July 2007)

Alien vs Predator, by Paul Anderson "Mortal Kombat", "Event Horizon", "Resident Evil", musical score by Harald Kloser "Day after Tomorrow" brings two of the most popular adult science fiction monsters together for the first time, tying together not only our ancient civilizations but there's as well, in a action packed rite of Predator, and mankind.
Satellites pick up a heat bloom 2000 feet below the ice in the Antarctic, and Weyland (Lance Henriksen) through topographical imaging discover it is a pyramid. Weyland Bishop, who is having health concerns, wishes this to be his legacy: to be the first one there. He gathers together a team of the finest in their fields: a scientist (Raoul Bova), a military man (Colin Salmon), mountain climber (Alexa Woods), and archaeologist (Joseph Rye) to pioneer the expedition to the pyramid. What they awaken inside though through their ignorance is a hunt that's been going on for thousands of years, between the predator and the aliens.
The earth has been used by the predators since Egyptian times, where they taught the Pharoah's how to build the first pyramids, and allowed their people to be used as sacrifices for their rite of passage hunts, they were obligated every 100 years.
We see Predator and a woman become allies, in a fight against the aliens. It adds a lot to the story, but also really changes a lot, and so a lot of fans will be angry. Kind of like a lot of fans who were upset while wanting to see another hardcore predator hunt in the deep swamp of part 1 with Arnold Shwarzenegger, got only a predator in LA with Danny Glover. No one could live up to the hype of waiting 7 years for Aliens back on the big screen. and a whopping fourteen years to see Predator reintroduced. That aside, the movie could have been better, should have been better.
The resemblance of the Predator to the Rastafari has never really been questionable, with their dreadlocks, and powerful hunter stature. We also note that the only survivor through this ordeal, is a black woman, which makes this movie subjectively speaking, a black power film. Perhaps that was subconscious, or coincidence, it doesn't matter. I'm not bringing it up to make a race thing out of it, simply to denote similarities between African tribal cultures of Africa, with the Predator motif, and time line of the present film.
Overall I did enjoy the film, though truly felt the last half hour was rushed, don't know why... a lot more could have taken place without getting too long. Many scenes felt blank, a lot of dead air, which led me to find the directing lacking to an extent. Still, a fun movie with nice overtones of loyalty, and honor, which is a trademark of Predator films. A sequel might be in order here. Harald Kloser did a much better job on the music for Day after Tomorrow, this movie seemed to lack memorability in the music, being simply "action movie music" Predator stole the show. Well, thank heavens they gave that fluffeh penguin his full cameo scene... he had more frames in the movie then the queen alien. I hope fluffeh penguin has a good agent.