A joke...

Rating: 1/10 (18 September 2004)

Being a fan of both Alien and Predator series and even of the AVP comics and VGs (like me), when you hear a movie like this is being made, you will certainly have some doubts about its quality. I've read the original AVP comic and enjoyed it immensely and at the time thought it would be a great story for a movie. So when I first heard of the upcoming AVP movie, I had hopes it would be based in the comics. (Oh! such innocence!) My fears came true when I saw the trailer: It would have nothing to do with the comics except for the concept of having Aliens fighting Predators with powerless humans in the middle. But still I had hopes the story could be somewhat acceptable and the directing good. So I went to see it... and then reached the one logical conclusion: Mr. Paul W. S. Anderson hates us (fans of Alien and Predator) and decided to insult us with this... movie.
The events occur somewhere in Antarctica, below an old mining site where an ancient pyramid is buried. A small team of experts and (of course) brutes with guns, leaded by Bishop Weyland(head of Weyland industries) and Alexa Woods go there to investigate the pyramid, finding themselves trapped in a maze with Aliens and Predators. After knowing that, the movie is an absolute joke: clichéd scenes of action, the Italian archaeologist being able to reach conclusions that a normal human being could not (for example, just by seeing the maze change its form the first time, he discovered it would be done every 10 minutes), Alien gestation time being only 5 minutes, Predators' armors and weapons melting with the Alien acid blood, and so on. It has loads of FX and matrix style camera rotations. And the revelation of how Predators used humans in the past made me remember Stargate (the difference being that Stargate was a good movie).
With all this, the it isn't more than an action movie trying to put together two of the most famous Sci-Fi characters unsuccessfully.
1/10