It seems that the title is consistent, it seems that we got what we wanted. But, is it good? Well, not that much. We simply got what was written in the title and that's it. The only consistent part is the movie title. The movie starts from the ending of AVP (2004), so we can easily call this film "AVP 2". A Pred-Alien somehow grows pretty fast and kills every predator on board and the spacecraft crashed somewhere in the woods of Colorado. Not only that Pred-Alien survived the crash, but also a few facehuggers. So, alarm is triggered at predator's home planet. Yeah, this is the first film where the Predator home world is shown. However, I don't like it personally. Because it looks like some kind of Aztec architecture... it looks human-made. I mean, come on, why not make it look a bit more 'extra-terrestrial'? I expected some kind of rain forest planet, with specific type of architecture and with some kind of retro technology around. So, a special kind of predator, a 'cleaner predator' so to say, flies away to earth to clean the mess behind other predators and to find other xenomorph threats. After many incidents, the residents are gathering to survive.
So, basically, we got this nothing special film. Where all attention was pointed to our title characters and their looks. So, why human character? They were just pointless and waste of time and money. They were dull, predictable and undeveloped. They perfectly fit the profile of slasher killer victims. They were just a bags of meat to develop the further actions and final battle between two title characters. Aliens are looking good, Predator also looks good, as more dangerous and more special kind of Predator. Make up department and costume department did a great job with both of them and I give a respect to Tom Woodruff Jr. and his team of practical special effects and puppets and also I am grateful for lack of CGI, and of course I think that Ian Whyte is not bad in the role of Predator. Soundtrack is solid, editing is generic, sound effects are decent. The place chosen for the final conflict is, well kind of unusal. A little bit of woods, a little bit of sewers, and a little bit of pool and hospital. There is one problem actually. At least 75% of action is shot in dark. Why? Is that for intensity? Or mystery? I don't get it. Was it filmed like that only to hide their alien puppets and not to see details on predator costume more clearly? Why? As I said before I think that predator costume and alien puppets are good. Even stuntmen in alien costumes were good. Why not showing that in a bit more brighter light? The actors... well they weren't that special in their performances and I think that the director didn't even want them to act accordingly. There were simply not enough emotions between them. The story development? Only for title characters.
Overall, this movie is pretty bad, but no the worst ever. It just gave you what was promised in the title. And that's just it. It has some solid fun, and that's the only reason why should you watch it.
So, basically, we got this nothing special film. Where all attention was pointed to our title characters and their looks. So, why human character? They were just pointless and waste of time and money. They were dull, predictable and undeveloped. They perfectly fit the profile of slasher killer victims. They were just a bags of meat to develop the further actions and final battle between two title characters. Aliens are looking good, Predator also looks good, as more dangerous and more special kind of Predator. Make up department and costume department did a great job with both of them and I give a respect to Tom Woodruff Jr. and his team of practical special effects and puppets and also I am grateful for lack of CGI, and of course I think that Ian Whyte is not bad in the role of Predator. Soundtrack is solid, editing is generic, sound effects are decent. The place chosen for the final conflict is, well kind of unusal. A little bit of woods, a little bit of sewers, and a little bit of pool and hospital. There is one problem actually. At least 75% of action is shot in dark. Why? Is that for intensity? Or mystery? I don't get it. Was it filmed like that only to hide their alien puppets and not to see details on predator costume more clearly? Why? As I said before I think that predator costume and alien puppets are good. Even stuntmen in alien costumes were good. Why not showing that in a bit more brighter light? The actors... well they weren't that special in their performances and I think that the director didn't even want them to act accordingly. There were simply not enough emotions between them. The story development? Only for title characters.
Overall, this movie is pretty bad, but no the worst ever. It just gave you what was promised in the title. And that's just it. It has some solid fun, and that's the only reason why should you watch it.