An Entertaining Gimic

Rating: 6/10 (19 November 2018)

This is another one of those movies that for quite a while I was hoping that they would make. I guess, like a lot of people, it all goes back to that scene at the end of Predator II where Danny Glover sees an alien skull in the Predator's trophy room. Since that this literature, and computer games, had spawn exploring the concept, and finally a movie appeared taking the story to the new level.
So, what did I think of it? Well, it certainly met my expectations, though I would hardly consider it to be a movie that I would consider to be one of the all time greats. Sure, it is pretty gimicy, but I still believe it works, and it works well, and it does a pretty good job of merging the two films into a single universe. I have noticed though that there was been some suggestion that maybe the producers have decided to ignore this films and recreate the universes as separate universes, but the thing is that I actually still like the concept, and with the disappointment that the next two Aliens movies produced, I, like many fans, simply work to continue the idea of a shared universe.
Well, the film starts off with the discovery of a pyramid deep in the ice in the Antarctic, so a group decides to go and check it out. Well, from this start you can see where it is heading, and it is basically taking the same route as the countless of other Alien movies before hand - that is dump a group of people into a remote area, and then leash a horde of aliens onto them. Well, most films seem to only have one alien wandering around, though when you end up arming the protagonists, then having a swarm of them is probably better. Well, this film goes one better, and they throw in not only one, but three, predators into the mix.
So, the film basically runs as you would expect it to run, though we should remember that not only do with have Aliens, but we also have Predators, which means that both of them are having to deal with the pesky humans. Of course, as we can expect, there is a pretty high body count, and a very limited number of survivors. Of course, I'm not necessarily going to let you know who survives, but you can probably easily work that out anyway. As for the film, well, I liked it, it's quite fun, though I'd hardly say that it is a classic.