Like All Movies, Has Its Ups and Downs

Rating: Null/10 (20 August 2004)

Although AVP has been one of the best films I've seen this year, like all films it had its ups and downs. For starters, the sheer fact of seeing the two legendary aliens face off head to head was one of the most exciting things to happen since Freddy Vs. Jason. Most fans of the Predator series have been waiting a long time for this since seeing the Alien skull in the trophy room in Predator 2. But on a downside, the plot, as it may have been good, had many holes in it.
The movie takes place in a Predator pyramid that was there for the sole purpose of breeding and hunting Aliens. The movie goes into the history of the Predators' species, which seems to be what the film circles around, and tells how humans once worshiped them as gods, but a tragic end lost all knowledge of it. A team of archeologists, assembled by Weyland Industries which was the "company" referred to in the Alien series, searches the pyramid only to find out it was a supposed trap, so they would host the Aliens to breed them. The humans are taken out quickly, first by Aliens, then the Predators, leaving only one. After Lex, the remaining human, kills an Alien with the Predator's spear, there comes a partnership between the two as the hunt the Aliens together, ending in a showdown with a very angry queen Alien.
As the plot was very well thought out, the movie was very slow in the beginning along with jumpy. The Aliens were much better CGIed that in Resurrection, but the Predators were too bulky. Their predecessors were muscular, but sleek, meanwhile, the new Predators looked as if Schwartzenegger trained them.
Nevertheless, I enjoyed the film thoroughly, and with the ending, do expect a sequel, hopefully filling in the plot holes without presenting more. I gave this movie an 8/10.