A decent try. Way better than Predator 2 and Alien 4 and light years away from avp2

Rating: 6/10 (16 March 2008)

Im 28 years old and have been a huge fan of alien and predator movies. The 1st Predator and Aliens(from Ridley Scott and Cameron) are among my favourite movies of all time. I was a bit let down with predator 2 and alien resurrection and i was hoping this movie could bring a fresh re-start at both franchises.
This movie isn't has bad as people say it is. OK, its not a work of art but still its worth seeing.
I don't think many people understood this movie. People see too many plot holes that really aren't there.
People complain about not being realistic. People complain about the stupidity of a pyramid in the arctic, people complain about a lot of things but this is a sci-fi movie so between aliens that come from eggs and predators that look like crabs why is a pyramid in the arctic so hard to swallow? As some people say, predators are noble fighters and they still show that in this movie. They only attacked the aliens, the humans that had guns and the humans that had THEIR guns.
Predators are creatures that often come to earth to find a worthy human opponent but every 100 years they fight something way better. Thats aliens. Consider fighting aliens like the Predator superbowl or world soccer championship. They do it every 100 years and they build ranks on their warriors with it.
I really don't see a problem with the team up between the main human character and the predator. The predator is a good warrior and Alex is too considering she is only human with no big muscles or guns like arnie, danny glover or any marine from aliens. So she had the predator respect. Thats why he marked her in the end.
Another scene people complain is how the predators in the ship did nothing to help Scar to kill the queen. Of course they didn't. The same way all those predators on the ship in Predator 2 didn't kill Danny Glover after he killed one of them. They are in this game for the challenge. The ones that fail are not worthy warriors. Simple.
And for those complaining about the zoom in on fights making it hard to see anything...watch avp2 and you will beg to have avp1 fight scenes.
And the last complain is about the predators taking the body of the cacooned predator to the ship. People don't understand why they did it and say its was a dumb move from Paul Anderson. Well, i like to think it was curiosity from the predators to see and fight an enemy with the strength of both alien and predator.
The movie could have been better though. A little more gore, more action scenes, no teen rating and a better ending than the predalien thing would make it a really good action film.
After writing my interpretation of this movie i just want to say that i'm not a Paul Anderson fan. I didn't like Mortal Kombat or Resident Evil, but i have to admit that he did a good job with this movie. Not great but still a good job. And it gets even better after seeing one of the worse movies i haver saw (AVP2).
I give it a 7 out of 10.