The Enemy Of My Enemy Is My Friend. Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right. If You Give a Mouse a Cookie....

Rating: 7/10 (20 August 2004)

I have to admit, I'm not the biggest Aliens or Predator fan. The Alien movies were good actioners at best, and the first Predator was the only one of the two worth any merit, even if I was laughing the whole time because it featured governors of California and Minnesota. So I didn't come in expecting a great movie. And I didn't get a great movie. But I got a good movie, a movie that is what it is supposed to be: a good action flick.
The plot is about this group of adventurers who find a pyramid buried under Antarctica, or Alaska, or Alabama... I don't know. Doesn't matter. They go there to find a giant hole in the ground leading to the pyramid, a hole that wasn't there the day before. Down at the pyramid they find that it's an ever-changing--okay, so basically, it's a movie about aliens fighting predators. Some cool fight scenes, but it needed more oomph, and there was too much pointless backstory. I kept waiting for the Pepsi-Cola thing to come into play or SOMETHING to happen with that, but apparently the makers just felt like throwing a whole bunch of money around to make a rather expensive set for a backstory that isn't needed. Grr. Right, because we're supposed to feel for the characters... yeeeeeeah....
Anyway, it needed to get to the aliens fighting the predators part quicker, and it needed more action, but sans those it was still a pretty good movie. If you're in the mood, I recommend it.