INKSTAND

I knew that the plot of this movie was going to be lame. I knew it was just going to be some cheap adhesive to hold together a battle between Aliens and Predators. I knew I was going to hear lines like:
“People are dying!”
and
“God help us all!”
The reason I wanted to see the movie is obvious. Bad-ass monsters fighting like bad-asses. Also, there was the promise of a “predalien”, a hybrid of the two creatures that was hinted at at the end of the last movie. I’m sure this has been a fantasy of many a nerd ever since the two franchises merged in Dark Horse comics in 1989. I know I drew a couple back in 7th grade.
So here he is:

Pretty cool, huh? Unfortunately that’s the best shot you’re going to get of him. Most of the movie is more like this:

Dark, rainy, and too much movement to tell what’s going on. I had a difficult time differentiating between a drone alien and the Predalien. The mosters had already been made, looking awesome, in their own respective pictures. Why was it so difficult for the director to show us this awesomeness in an all-out, well-lit battle? Oh, also I guess there were supposed to be tons of Aliens, like a swarm, but we never really saw that many. No long shots of the town just being devoured by them. That would have been nice to see.
All these things made the crappy plot unbearable. I felt like I was watching a SciFi Channel movie with a bigger budget and less conviction.

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