Paul W.S. Anderson wrote and directed this cheerful video game style cross over which does everything it needs to do. It's set in the Antarctic, a team financed by a rich dying billionaire (Lance Henriksen) pokes around and discovers a crypt and there's predators and aliens etc.
I thought it was quite sweet (and believable) that the predators generally had it over the aliens. But it feels silly somehow that the predators used humans to breed aliens to chase and would blow up civilisation that didn't work out. That doesn't ring true. That's a lot of effort. Can't aliens survive without humans?
The film gives people what they want on a base level - face hugging, eggs, predators tracking and killing people. A bit more suspense/creepiness wouldn't have gone astray.
The two leads aren't terribly charismatic. Sigourney and Arnie are missed.
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