Spoiler warning: This details bits about scenes in the film.

Just watched this film, and I'm glad to say I didn't waste my money on it like the person who I borrowed it from. I was expecting from two of the best franchises in hollywood... Well whatever I was expecting it was not what this film was.

First off, when it's the view from the starship that almost blew my subwoofer (That was no way funny). Why have starships, and almost everything in hollywood films become so bowel wrenching? Does it somehow make the film more watchable if the soundtrack persuades me to go to the toilet?

Then there was the scene where the expidition are talking about something innane, I wasn't paying attention as the set really did look nice, and I was concentrating on it as it was poorly lit. Namely, someone makes a comment, and beared guy replies with "Laff it up, Laff it up." What sort of person doubles cliched phrases? Someone who is obviously speaking from a script that was written by a cocain addled scriptwriter who hasn't been in real society for years.

Did I mention lighting before? I'll mention it again. Everyone carries flashlights, chestmounted, gun mounted, there's even big ones on stands! But thoughout the entire film you will want to block out all other forms of light, for if even a stray photon from a glowrod got in it'd ruin the picture. I think I got eye strain from trying to see what happens. Is it honestly nessessary to have everything so dark when predators are usually cloaked? Aliens is an example of good lighting, Predator is an example of good lighting. This film is not.

Also, this film's "Filme noir" aspiration is ruined with the cutesy "I'll help you Mr.Predator, enslaver of my ancestors!" When she gives him his gun back, after figuring out that predators only hunt things worthy, or that are host to things worthy. Then it's a dynamic duo of Mr.Predator and Missy Hugh Man!

Finally, with the dead predator on the ships resting place, you see a Xenomorph first stage burst out, with a predator mouth. Did I really need to see that? Could they not have cut the last few seconds of this film out and put it in the ovbious sequel?

In summary, Iv'e been looking forward to this film for ages, and hollywood has yet again ruined another of my childhood favorites.

How the film should have been done:

Humans go in, read some stuff about Predator and Xenomorph history, all get killed by mass face hugger attack. Predators scan the pyramid, see there's lots of prey in there and go hunting. Hunting and killing ensue, with lots of BRIGHT lights, as xenomorphs see by scent anyway and the predators would know that. Then there should have been another massive fight on the landed predator spaceship, last predator kills the queen without blowing up the reactor and humanity then picks over the corpses, and people take facehugger eggs away to labs, for the inevitable sequel.