AVP is an awesome movie that stands alone

Rating: Null/10 (14 August 2004)

I just saw AVP last night (Aug 13). While it is not the best film in either series (those being the 1st in each series) I thought it brought them together well.
It sets the film in Antarctica, 2004. That ties in to Predator, which has always been a here and now series. It ties in with the Alien movies by using Lance Henriksen as Charles Bishop Weyland, owner of the Weyland Industries, which I thought was a nice tie in. It also answered for me how the company knew about the Alien to begin with.
Weyland hires a group of scientists and explorers to uncover an ancient pyramid buried in the ice of Antarctica. The pyramid ends up being, what else, a breeding ground for aliens. The predators come once every hundred years to Hunt the Aliens as a right of passage. The science team unwittingly become entangled in the hunt and have to fight to survive.
It had a good story, good characters, and the fights were just cool. The movie would stand better as a Predator 3 than it would in the Alien series, But in any case, AVP is an awesome movie that stands alone!!!