Thought it would be either a bad or lukewarm movie, but I was in for a surprise! The movie was quite interesting. The story behind did make me paused for some hard thinking (just a few points they made here and there through out the movie)...
- Imagined that the ancient human beings long time ago worshiped a God, and this God taught them (the human beings) lots of things which were terribly advanced (which even the 21st century could not figure out! The image reminded us of the Egyptians worshiping their SUN GOD, the building of strange pyramids, their technique in body preserving, etc).
- to control the slaves (the human beings), this so called God (who happened to be aliens from space, who were both aliens and predators to the human species), used a certain kind of scorpions. These scorpions were also used by the so called Gods/Predators, as a sort of "duel" partners, to test out their own strength before they could become real warriors of the Predator species.
- all of this happened long time ago, because due to some sort of accidents happened, which made these scorpions (or so called "aliens" in the movie) rebelled, fought the Predators, and made the human species then extinct. The predators then sealed the pyramid, put in some guards, and only returned when their teenagers needed a chance to prove their maturity by fighting with the aliens kept in that temple/pyramid which predated the Egyptians and the Aztec.
- this temple/pyramid was hidden thousand of feet under the antartica of the earth
Imagined that an industrialist billionaire happened to find out about the location of this strange pyramid by thermal imaging statellites, and wanted to investigate. He requested the help of a number of famous archaeologists, scientists and explorers to help him get into this pyramid.
The movie seemed to focus on a very complex plot. To some, it was
- too complex and not too convincing enough, (eg, the pyramid under ice, in antartica, etc)
- lacking all the horrible scenes/bloodshed that often came with the predator theme,
- not enough fighting (real fighting) as other predator/alien movies...
Since I only watched a few "alien" movies so far, I thought this movie was quite entertaining, worth the money and time I spent. I did not recognise any of the cast, except for Lance Henrikson, who played the role of the industrial billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland. I was very impressed with the main cast, Sanaa Lathan, who played Alexa Woods, the leader of the expedition. She looked quite pretty, spunky, and very determined in what she had to do.
Thing that made me laugh a bit: the tough looking predators in their armors, did resemble a mix between the famous black singer Bob Marley with his long hair and some bionicles (the pirakas series).
The movie was full of tense moments. It showed how the expedition progressed, with all the unexpected/twists. Seemed as the team of scientists/archaeologists/etc got to the location, and found themselves got entangled with a coming of age ritual of a teenage predator group. To be killed or not to be killed, the sole survivor Alexa Woods realised that she had to join team with the predators in order to defeat the scopions and its queen (the aliens), and get out of the temple/pyramid alive.
The ending was interesting (when you thought the climax was completely over, it promptly suggested another beginning of an un-ending story)!
7.5/10 for this movie!
(Imagine that, they made this movie at a Prague studio (Czech), with certain scenes filmed at a CDK factory in Vysocany, (also in Czech))
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