A quick overview

Rating: Null/10 (13 September 2004)

Spoilers
This is a nicely done movie, in a number of ways. The length of about 100 minutes is just right, allowing enough time to build towards the climax and stopping before the whole thing becomes a bore. I also like the 'clean' element in that unlike most of the adventure flicks, there's no villain, no treachery in the exploration party. Blood and gore is reduced to a minimum as the whole thing looks like an exciting video game, from which the movie is actually derived. There are a couple of good and well-timed laughs which are, wisely, not overdone as to become tedious. Best of all is the art direction and action sequences.
Unavoidably, there are things that are borrowed from other movies. The workings of the moving parts of the pyramid looks suspiciously familiar, if you have seen the Canadian indie 'Cube'. The Predators' gigantic spacecraft look unabashedly like the one in 'Close Encounter of the Third Kind.' We (humans, that is) are finally taking sides, and it is not surprising that the humanoid-form Predators become our allies.
All in all, good no-brainer entertainment. What was my feeling coming out of the cinema? For one thing, I became famished for a lobster dinner.