Predator was more so unjustly panned by critics and fans due to the hype and anticipation. However, the pyramid is a hunting ground for Predators who kill Aliens as a rite of passage and the team find themselves caught in the middle of their hunt.
My vote: 6.5 out of 10.Ī team assembled by a billionaire investigate a heat signal that reveals a pyramid below the surface of a whaling station in Antarctic. So if you can get past the silly characters and you're able to ignore the more obvious shortcomings (like the idiotic decision to make the film PG-13) you're in for a fun ride. Whoever designed those really scored and seems to have a great love for the art of Giger and the previous films. But despite all those flaws I have to admit I enjoyed the movie from start to finish - because of the amazing set- and creature-design and the more than decent action sequences and special effects. It's hard to take characters or a story seriously when nearly every sentence spoken resembles lines from a parody of cheap science-fiction and horror movies from the fifties and sixties. When I watched it yesterday I got angry at times because some of the dialogue - well, most of it, actually - is truly awful. I completely understand why this movie got such terrible reviews after all, it marked the first "let's make a quick buck" entry in the two beloved Alien and Predator franchises and was done by a director who many felt didn't treat the material with the respect it deserved. He suffered for four hours before dying twenty minutes from the base.Just watched it again yesterday - it's striking how good the action is compared to the ridiculous dialogue. On the way down, he developed a blood clot in his leg that traveled to his lung. I had my first drink with my dad at 14,400 feet. We reached the top and he opened a bottle of champagne. My dad broke his leg seven hundred feet from the summit of Mount Rainier. And that's it.Īlexa 'Lex' Woods: I've heard this speech before. You know what I realized would happen when I go? A ten percent fall in share prices. We'll update you at the top of every hour.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: You know, when you get sick, you think about your life and how you're going to be remembered. Alexa 'Lex' Woods: There's no room for sick men on this expedition.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: My doctors tell me the worst is behind me.Īlexa 'Lex' Woods: You're not a very good liar, Mr.
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