I can honestly say, that this is one of the most under-rated films of 2004. Rating: PG-13 (Language|Horror Images|Slime and Gore|Violence) Making matters worse, another extraterrestrial species, known as Predators, arrive to hunt the other aliens, with the humans caught in the middle of the conflict. Led by a tough guide, Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan), Weyland and his team uncover a pyramid, but they also find malevolent parasitic aliens. My vote: 6.5 out of 10.When the wealthy and ambitious Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) funds an expedition to Antarctica, he hopes to find a mysterious source of heat that has been detected.
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. Just watched it again yesterday - it's striking how good the action is compared to the ridiculous dialogue. He suffered for four hours before dying twenty minutes from the base.Ĭharles Bishop Weyland: You think that's the last thing your dad remembers? The pain? Or drinking champagne with his daughter fourteen thousand feet in the air? 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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