Too many unnecessary issues

Rating: 4/10 (9 May 2005)

First of all, this movie satisfied my expectations as to the conflict predator/alien. Great special effects, the monsters are just as you would want them, really neat hand to hand combat between the two, but ...
A number of things bothered me greatly.
The first was in the 'sacrificial hall' where one of the sci guys immediately jumps to the conclusion of 'heart sacrificed' and is told that that is not where the heart is and bones turned outward blah blah. Full stop. You'd expect some kind of discussion at that point but sorry, they just leave it at that. I guess THEY didn't see the original alien movies ...
Then the archaeological type reads all the symbols like they're a book in plain English.He warns to not take the predator shoulder rocket launcher type thingy; But not the first, no, not the second either. He doesn't utter his warning until the last one is taken. Oh, well.
This is an odd bit, about the predator shoulder rocket launcher type thingy. It seems that is their primary weapon. Without it, a single alien whacks two out of the three predators in short order. Leaving those thingies down there for us mortals to completely screw up the whole plan of taking them once the predator apprentices get there is just plain stupid.
Then nothing was more obvious than the last predator getting 'seeded'. Now, this last predator sees the gestating larvae in the human victims but in the end they take his seeded carcass without inspection? They have to, like, not look at him to miss the damn thing wiggling around his bronchial tube! And what happened to aliens not attacking seeded hosts?
I am not going to mention that one of these predators would never ever ally himself (herself? Their are certainly bitchy enough!) with a human 'breeding tube' for their favorite prey. OK, so I did mention it.
After all we saw about alien(s), do we really think going down in water is going to kill one of them? Especially the queen bitch? Schit, a whale will dive 5000 feet to hunt pussy (the octagonal kind) ...
regards, Mac