The movie started out with a blurb stating that they intentionally hired the most bland, useless actors ever to grace the big screen so that they would no overshadow the presence of Aliens and/or Predators in this film.  It is the gerenal consent amongst the filmmakers that character development would take away screentime from said Aliens and Predators, so we will be skipping the character development for the film (hence the use of bland, bad actors for said parts).  Enjoy the film. 

Please note that the use of the word "film" in the above sentence actually means a series of scenes joined together by a paper thin plot that exists solely to put Predators and/or Aliens in various environments to engage in battle with each other.  Transitions to said scenes were like so:

    "Wow, I can't believe we survived.  What was that big crazy alien looking thing?" said Person A

    "I don't know.  We should run over to the [school/gun store/power plant/forest/hospital]."  Person B states. 

Then they run to the next destination, where it is dark and creepy, yet they enter.  They are then horrifically surprised to find people dead and big, crazy alien looking things there hunting them.  Normally, most people would stop being surprised at seeing big, crazy alien looking things when they enter buildings that look like they had been ravaged by big, crazy alien looking things, but they would have needed to hire actors for that instead of casting their friends in the parts. 

 In lieu of hiring actors, though, they did spend money on special effects.  Which did look good.  There were about 10 Alien vs. Predator fights, which is 9 more than Alien vs. Predator had.  The big problem with the fights is the same problem I have with almost all movie fights now-a-days.  They zoom in too close.  They zoom in to the point where a mesh of black shiny stuff entirely fills the screen.  When you have Superman fighting Brainiac and you have clearly distinct blue and red fighting green, the colors contrast enough and you can see enough that it can pass and you can kind of tell what's going on.  When you have the black, shiny aliens fighting the black, shiny predator and you zoom in way too close, who knows.  Its just shiny black taking up the entire screen.  They could be fighting.  They could be making out.  They could be writing the script as the film is being shot.  Who knows. 

In the end, it was Predator vs. Predalien (the half breed Predator-Alien).  Which, consequentially, sent Ed into a five minute rant in the parking lot.  His point was that just because an Alien was nested and popped out of a Predator, it should not take on any pf the physical characteristics of the Predator, because every time an Alien popped out of a human, it never had human like qualities.  Ed does have a point.  That fact may hold Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem back from winning the Best Screenplay Oscar. 

All in all, I felt it was worth the money I paid to see it.  (I did have a coupon for a free ticket, by the way).