This movie begins where the first one left off, we see a Predator lying in state at the back of a ship with his chest burst wide open. There are facehuggers loose on the ship along with the growing Predalien. The lone live Predator on the ship is unable to maintain control of the situation and is killed. The ship crashes on a lonely blue planet known as Earth.

A father and son are out hunting and see the ship crash and rush off to find the ship still smoking in the forest. Predictably, they leave the ship where it lies and go off to contact the local sheriff, but it turns out that the facehuggers survived the crash and implant both the father and the son with Aliens.

We also meet the other main characters early in the movie, the local sheriff, played by John Ortiz, and his old buddy Dallas who took a different path as a criminal. The female lead is Reiko Aylesworth as Kelly. Kelly is a female Army chopper pilot just back from the wars. And, as is almost always the case in Alien movies, we have the little girl, Molly, played by Ariel Gade. Dallas has a little brother, Ricky, played by Johnny Lewis.

This movie has a TON of homage to the original movies, but primarily plays to the title characters, especially the Aliens. Dallas, the hero of the film, is also the name of the captain in the original “Alien” movie, played by Tom Skerrit and there's no question, down to the black wife beater style tank-top worn by the female lead, that Kelly is Ripley (Sigorney Weaver) reborn. I half expected the scared, but brave, little girl in the film, Molly, to pop off a comment like Newt (Rebecca Hinn) from “Aliens”, which is among the scariest ever delivered on film. “Mostly they come at night. Mostly.”

In general, the Alien parts of the film are pretty terrifying, but the first time the Predator (Wolf) drops into the screen with his invisible body armor and all you hear is the thunder of his landing from the theater speakers, it will shake you to the core. This is a bloody, shoot-em-up with all of the violence, language and gore intact. It is a competent rendering of the Alien and Predator war by the brothers Strause.

I liked it and if you're into Aliens getting the crap kicked out of them by a single hunting Predator with humans merely incidentals in the conflict then this movie is for you. Don't expect too much out of the dialog or the actors, this movie isn't about that. It's about showing the vicious conflict between the Aliens and the Predators and how we got in the middle. Consider it too be, along with the sub-standard “Alien vs. Predator”, a set up for much better movies in the future.