A long time ago the “Alien” franchise had a great name and even the first “Predator” was widely regarded as a great sci-fi action flick but this film that pairs two of cinema’s most notorious extra-terrestrial killers has no suspense and has below average action scenes.

The film has nothing to do with the plot of the arcade game. In Antarctica, something strange on a satellite sparks an archaeological expedition. The group accidentally unearth the ‘Aliens’… and some of the group find they are about to be the hosts of these creatures. Also, there are the Predators, who like hunting and they see the Aliens as the ultimate prey and like to use the humans as the hosts. The remaining humans realise they have to pick sides if they are to survive.

The humans are boring. We came here to see Aliens fight Predators and not to watch boring humans do boring stuff for well over half of the runtime. Why didn’t they have some ultra-macho tough guy like Arnold Schwarzenegger in the first “Predator”? Or even better why didn’t they have Arnold Schwarzenegger himself? The Aliens look alright except for the fact lots of the shots they’re featured in have them made by computer effects. Did they do that in “Aliens”? No. Did they look great in the older films? Yes. The Predators don’t look all that impressive. Also, the Predators actually team-up with the humans to fight the Aliens, which I think is an awful idea.

This should have been so over the top and fun but it just offers so little. This is just a bland experience, even by ‘versus’ movie standards. The action is bad, the special effects are mediocre, the horror is non-existent, the acting is bad, the dialog is weak, the plot is thin and the film doesn’t give us anywhere near enough of what we expected to see. However, it does give us some hilarious looking blood, which is some of the fakest I’ve ever seen in a movie.