Entertaining? Yes, but more in line with the last two Alien movies. In other words, not as good as the first two Alien movies or the first two Predator movies.Technically any good? Not really. The film was rushed, the score while decent was not by Alan Silvestri (A PREDATOR movie without him composing??) and the acting passable. The script took many shortcuts, had many cumbersome and useless elements and boiled down to an excuse to get Aliens and Predators to fight. Very weak. However, the film did surprise me with decent acting from the lead female character and some somewhat interesting action-scene-moments.
How did I feel as the credits rolled? More satisfied than I expected to be. This film does entertain but will not go down in the anals of film history as being anything but on the level of a big dumb movie. Still, I was impressed to see a minority female actress get to kick as much ass as this film let its lead get away with. It is films like this one that will allow women to eventually take a more prominent place in action movies. (This is a move that most American film-goers don't care to see happen, witness the TOMB RAIDER films crappy box office despite them both being better films than this one.)
Final Rating? SAM (To be fair, this movie would be even more lame if for a first viewing you saw it on a TV set.)
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