It wasn't as bad as I feared, I'll tell you. Not too good, but not too bad either. Nothing original, obviously, that's understandable, although the introduction was too long, for me. We had to meet all the members of the expedition to Antarctica, to know them, to listen to their stories and their reasons, and it was pretty boring. The millionaire Weyland is very ill and wants to make history before he dies, so wants to be the first to make the big discovery: he has found a source of heat 600 feet below ground, and his scanners show a big pyramid-like structure, so he has assembled a team of experts to study it before others get there. A big tunnel has already been made (we know who did it, a big starship full of Predators), and the place has been abandoned all of a sudden in 1904, without a word of explanation, the dishes still on the table.. and nobody worried about that.
The scientific team goes down while some people stay above, and for some reason they are all killed by the arriving Predators. I don't know why; they are all taken by surprise and don't put up much of a fight. These Predators liked an easy win.
When they finally enter that bizarre construction the thing really starts. Practically the humans are trapped in it, so they can generate new Aliens for the hunt. A biig Alien queen is there, prisoner, used to produce eggs that thanks the the human bodies will become full, dangerous Aliens.
The only Italian actor of the cast, despite the strange choice of name, as if Sebastian was an Italian name or something, did a nice enough job. I feared the worst, honestly, because I don't like his Italian Fictions, but it was okay, and he had a good character, the only male hero of the movie, in a way. That was nice. Unexpected, and nice. :-)
The only human to come out alive is the only smart one, who didn't want to come at all, but accepted because all the others were going and she felt they probably wouldn't have made it even to the campsite alive without her. Alexa (Sanaa Lathan - never heard of her but I liked her) was trying to escape with Sebastian. He had explained the 'ritual of passage' that this hunt was for the younger Predators, and she thought of giving them back the weapon they had because it was better to be on their side than to let the Aliens win and maybe escape free into the world. Yeah, because our team had the great idea of taking the weapons they found (not even knowing they were weapons yet) to have something to bring back with them, not at all bothered by the fact that Sebastian was shouting for them not to touch them! What do they need experts for if they don't listen to them at all? Oh well.
When Alexa is about to fall to her death Sebastian saves her, but that act leaves him unprotected from the alien that takes him away. When she meets him again, he has an alien inside him and he knows him so he begs her to shoot him and she does, in tears. When she meets a Predator, she knees down and throws him his weapon; I'm not sure what he would have done if an Alien hadn't attacked him in that moment. Anyway, the alien knocks him down and goes to Alexa, who kills it with the Predator's weapon on the floor. Now to his eyes she's a warrior too, so he explains to her (no words, but pretty clear mime every time he has to explain something) that the Alien's blood is a terrible acid and makes a shield and a weapon for her with the dead body. Now they hunt together, then he sets a bomb and they try to escape. They go out using some sort of emergency device they had put there to come out of there quickly (it goes up really fast, why would they set that thing so fast? Did they expect a running-from-Alien situation?) and she lets him brand her cheek as he had branded his forehead. She's killed an alien by herself, after all, so she's a warrior too. Still, not yet time for goodbye.
The Alien queen comes out quite angry but he manages to harpoon it and together they attach the harpoon to a big cistern about to fall so it's taken down into the deep water, but before the fall it manages to kill the Predator. So Alexa is not the only human alive, she's the only one at all.
The big starship comes back and takes away the body but they leave her be, even give her a weapon as a gift, because they see the mark on her face.
It ends with an Alien coming out of the dead Predator body on the ship..
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