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{{Quote1|Thousands of years ago, these hunters found a backwater planet. They taught humans how to build, and were worshiped as gods. Every hundred years, the gods would return. And when they did, they would expect a sacrifice. Humans were used to breed the ultimate prey. The hunters would battle with these great serpents to prove themselves worthy to carry the mark. But if the hunters lost, they made sure nothing survived. An entire civilization wiped out overnight.|'''Sebastian de Rosa'''}}
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{{Infobox Film
 
| name = Alien vs Predator
 
| name = Alien vs Predator
 
| image = Alien vs Predator poster.jpg
 
| image = Alien vs Predator poster.jpg
| tagline =
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| tagline = Whoever Wins, We Lose
 
| director = Paul W. S. Anderson
 
| director = Paul W. S. Anderson
 
| producer = John Davis<br>Gordon Carroll<br>David Giler<br>Walter Hill
 
| producer = John Davis<br>Gordon Carroll<br>David Giler<br>Walter Hill
 
| writer = Paul W. S. Anderson
 
| writer = Paul W. S. Anderson
| cast = Sanaa Lathan<br>Raoul Bova<br>Lance Henriksen
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| cast = Sanaa Lathan<br>Raoul Bova<br>Lance Henriksen
 
| music = Harald Kloser
 
| music = Harald Kloser
 
| cinematography = David Johneson
 
| cinematography = David Johneson
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| production company = Davis Entertainment<br>Brandywine Productions
 
| production company = Davis Entertainment<br>Brandywine Productions
 
| distributor = 20th Century Fox
 
| distributor = 20th Century Fox
| released = 12 August 2004
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| released = August 12, [[2004]]
 
| runtime = 101 minutes
 
| runtime = 101 minutes
 
| country = {{USA}}
 
| country = {{USA}}
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| budget = $60.000.000
 
| budget = $60.000.000
 
| gross = {{profit|$172.000.000}}
 
| gross = {{profit|$172.000.000}}
| followed_by = [[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem]]
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| followed_by = ''[[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)|Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem]]''
| rating = 5.6}}
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| imdb_rating = 5.6
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| imagecat = Alien vs. Predator
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}}
 
'''''Alien vs Predator''''' is a [[2004]] science fiction action horror film. It was directed by Paul W.S.Anderson and the screenplay was made by Paul W. S. Anderson and Shane Salerno. starring Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, [[Lance Henriksen]], Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon and Tommy Flanagan.
   
 
It is based on the crossover ''Alien vs Predator'' franchise, a concept which originated in a 1989 comic book published by Dark Horse Comics, and it centers around a group of archeologists lead by billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland, who investigate a heat signal coming from the Antartic.
'''''Alien vs Predator''''', often shorted as '''''AVP''''', is a [[2004]] science fiction action horror film. It was directed by Paul W.S.Anderson and the screenplay was made by Paul W. S. Anderson and Shane Salerno. starring Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon and Tommy Flanagan.
 
   
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It was followed by ''[[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)|Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem]]''.
It is based on the crossover ''Alien vs Predator'' franchise, a concept which originated in a 1989 comic book published by Dark Horse Comics, and it centers around a group of archeologists lead by billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland, who investigate a heat signal coming from the Antartic. It was followed by [[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem]].
 
   
 
==Plot==
 
==Plot==
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{{Spoilerwarning}}''In outer space, a satellite detects a mysterious heat source''
In 2004, a satellite detects a mysterious heat bloom beneath Bouvetaya, an island about one thousand miles off the coast of Antartica. The wealthy industrialist [[Charles Bishop Weyland]], owner of the satellite,  assembles a team of scientists with the intention to investigate the heat source and claim it for his multinational communications company, Weyland Industries before another one does. The team includes archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers, mercenaries, and a guide named Alexa Woods.
 
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beneath Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica. In
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response, billionaire capitalist [[Charles Bishop Weyland]] collects a group of
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scientists to investigate the heat source and claim any related discoveries for
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his international communications company Weyland Industries. The expedition
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includes palaeontologists, archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers and Lex
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Woods, a guide with security provided by Max Stafford and his group of
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mercenaries.
   
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As the group journeys to Bouvetøya, a
As a Predator ship reaches Earth's orbit, it blasts a shaft through the ice towards the source of the heat bloom. When the humans arrive at the site above the heat source, an abandoned whaling station, they find the shaft and descend beneath the ice. They discover a mysterious pyramid and begin to explore it, finding evidence of a civilization predating written history, when Antartica was free of ice, and what appears to be a sacrificial chamber filled with human skeletons with ruptured rib cages.
 
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spaceship enters Earth's orbit and fires a powerful energy beam towards the basis
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of the heat source. When the Weyland Industries expedition arrives at the site
  +
above the heat source, an abandoned whaling station, they find a massive hole buried
  +
deep into the ice by the energy beam, and they descend to investigate. On the base
  +
deep below, they discover a mysterious pyramid and explore it, finding sign of
  +
an evolution pre-dating written history and also discover a sacrificial chamber
  +
filled with skeletons with cracked rib cages. As they explore, one of the
  +
members from the expedition steps on a pressure plate that awakens a captive
  +
Xenomorph Queen from her artificially enforced cryogenic slumber in a chamber
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deep within the pyramid.
   
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Meanwhile, three Predators known as
Meanwhile, three Predators land and kill the humans on the surface, making their way down to [[the pyramid]] and arriving just as the team unwittingly powers up the structure. An Alien queen awakes from cryogenic stasis and begins to produce eggs, from which facehuggers hatch and later attach to several humans trapped in the sacrificial chamber. Chestbursters emerge from these humans and they quickly grow into adult Aliens. Conflicts erupt then between the Predators, Aliens and the remaining humans, resulting in several deaths. Unbeknownst to the others, a Predator is also implanted with an Alien embryo.
 
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Scar, Celtic and Chopper land on Earth and kill many members of the expedition camping at the whaling
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station, before descending towards the pyramid. Several eggs laid by the Queen
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are mechanically delivered to the sacrificial chamber, and several members of
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the expedition still exploring there are trapped inside and impregnated by
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Facehuggers. Chestbursters emerge from them and quickly develop into adult [[Xenomorph]]s.
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Unaware to these events, the rest of the Weyland Industries group continue on
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with their exploration and eventually discover the Predator's Plasmacasters in
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a casket inside the pyramid. Recognizing them as advanced technology, they take
  +
them for study but activate a mechanism that causes the pyramid to move its
  +
interior every minute.
   
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The group is soon attacked by the
Through translation of the pyramid's hyroglyphs, the explorers learn, that the Predators have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. It was they, who taught early human civilizations, how to build pyramids and they were also worshiped as gods by the early humans because of their capabilities, which were incredible for the humans back then. Every 100 years they would visit Earth to take part in a rite of passage in the pyramid, in which they would expect several humans to sacrifice themselves as hosts for the Aliens, creating the "ultimate prey" for the Predators to hunt, which they also did and, if overwhelmed, the Predators would then activate their self-destruct weapons to eliminate the Aliens and themselves. The explorers deduce, that this is why the current Predators are at the pyramid and that the heat bloom they detected was to attract humans for the purpose of making new Aliens to hunt for their rite of passage.
 
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[[Predator (Alien)|Predators]] and most of the humans are killed, including Stafford and his
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mercenaries, while several others are taken by the Xenomorphs to be hosts for
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more species. The alpha Xenomorph known as Grid attacks and kills Chopper,
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causing Celtic to engage the Xenomorph in combat while the survivors escape. At
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first, Celtic gets the upper hand by slicing off Grid's tail and traps it in
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his wire net, where the Xenomorph gets tightened and is scarred with net wounds.
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Before Celtic can finish off Grid, its acid blood caused the net to dissolve,
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allowing the Xenomorph to break free and kills the Predator.
   
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Meanwhile, Scar, now the last Predator
The remaining humans decide, reluctantly, that the Predators must be allowed to succeed in their hunt, so that the Aliens do not reach the surface, which would mean the end of humanity and themselves under the premise, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Unfortunately, as the battle continues, almost all of the humans and Predators are killed, leaving only Alexa and a single Predator to fight against the Aliens. The two are forced to form an alliance and use the Predator's self-destruct device to destroy the pyramid and the remaining Aliens. [[Alexa Woods|Alexa]] and the Predator reach the surface, where they battle the escaped Alien queen. They defeat the queen by attaching its chain to a water tower and pushing it over a cliff into the water, dragging the queen to the ocean floor. The Predator, however, dies from its wounds.
 
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left, pursues Lex, an archaeologist named Sebastian and Weyland intending to
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return the stolen Plasmacasters they have taken. Weyland stays to defend
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himself against Scar while Lex and Sebastian escape, but is killed after he angers
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the Predator by burning him with a flamethrower when Scar saw that Weyland was weaker
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and is already dying from cancer. Meanwhile, Lex and Sebastian are separated from
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Scar by the pyramid's shifting walls. As he waits for a chance to pursue, a
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Xenomorph and a Facehugger sneak up on the Predator while he is alone and try
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to subdue him. Scar kills them with his Shuriken, unmasks himself and gives himself
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a mark of his own using their acid blood. Suddenly, another Facehugger sneaks
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up on Scar and apparently subdues him due to the Predator not wearing his mask
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before he could put it back on.
   
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Through translation of the pyramid's symbols,
A Predator ship uncloaks later and several Predators appear. They collect their fallen comrade and present with one of their spear weapons in recognition of her skills as a warrior. As they retreat into space, a chestburster with Predator-like features erupts from the dead Predator, beginning the events of [[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem|Aliens vs Predator: Requiem]].
 
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Sebastian and Lex learn that the Predators have been visiting Earth for thousands
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of years. They taught early humans how to build pyramids and were worshipped as
  +
gods. Every year, the Predators would return to Earth so that they would hunt Xenomorphs
  +
produced from sacrificial human hosts as the ultimate prey. If the Predators
  +
became overwhelmed, they would sacrifice themselves by activating a self-destruct
  +
device to eliminate the Xenomorphs, thus explaining the mysterious and rapid
  +
disappearance of several ancient cultures.
  +
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Sebastian and Lex realise that this is
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why the three Predators have returned to Earth again, and the heat source was a
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trap set up by them to lure the expedition group into the pyramid to be as bait
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for the Xenomorphs, so that the Predators can hunt them. They decide that the
  +
Predators must be allowed to succeed in their hunt, so that the Xenomorphs
  +
cannot wipe out all of humanity.
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Unfortunately, Sebastian is taken by the Xenomorphs, leaving
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Lex behind.
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Scar appears where he finds Lex alone
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and she returns his stolen Plasmacaster to him rather than the Predator not
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killing her. When a Xenomorph attacks, Lex impresses Scar by killing it which then
  +
he mutilates the dead creature and fashions its parts as weapons for her such
  +
as its head as an acid proof shield and its tail as a spear. They make their
  +
way into the hive where they find Sebastian alive and cocooned. After he reveals
  +
to Lex that the Xenomorphs cannot reach the surface, she is forced to shoot him
  +
before a Chestburster erupts from Sebastian's chest, but Scar eventually kills
  +
it. Afterward, Scar and Lex then set up Scar's self-destruct device in order to
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destroy the pyramid as it is the only way to do it, hoping that all the Xenomorphs
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will all be wiped out when it detonates.
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The two successfully escape and reach
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the surface just before the pyramid and the entire site are completely
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destroyed. After Scar gives Lex a mark of her own using Xenomorph blood, they
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are suddenly confronted by the Queen, who was still alive and revealing that
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she escaped the pyramid before it was destroyed when she was freed from her
  +
restraints by the Xenomorphs in her chamber. Scar and Lex fight the Queen until
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they notice a chain attached to her and tie it onto a water tower. They drop it
  +
over a cliff into the ocean which pulls the Queen underwater with it, causing
  +
her to sink to her watery grave. However, Scar had been impaled by the Queen's
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tail in the fight and dies peacefully from heavy wounds.
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At that
  +
moment, a spaceship uncloaks and several Predators appear before Lex. They
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collect their fallen companion and the Ancient Predator gifts Lex a spear-like
  +
weapon in recognition of her skills as a warrior symbolized by the Xenomorph acid
  +
blood Scar had burned on her cheek before he died. The Predators then depart
  +
and leave Lex alone, but just as the ship leaves Earth and flies off into outer
  +
space, a Chestburster with Predator-like characteristics suddenly erupts from
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Scar's corpse, beginning the events of ''[[Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem]]''.
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== List of deaths ==
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TBC
   
 
==Cast==
 
==Cast==
 
* Sanaa Lathan as [[Alexa Woods]]
 
* Sanaa Lathan as [[Alexa Woods]]
 
* Raoul Bova as [[Sebastian de Rosa]]
 
* Raoul Bova as [[Sebastian de Rosa]]
* Ewen Bremner as Graeme Miller
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* Ewen Bremner as [[Graeme Miller]]
* Colin Salmon as Maxwell Stafford
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* Colin Salmon as [[Maxwell Stafford]]
 
* [[Lance Henriksen]] as [[Charles Bishop Weyland]]
 
* [[Lance Henriksen]] as [[Charles Bishop Weyland]]
 
* Tommy Flanagan as Mark Verheiden
 
* Tommy Flanagan as Mark Verheiden
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== Videos ==
 
== Videos ==
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[[File:AVP Alien vs. Predator (2004) Official Trailer 1 - Alien Movie HD|thumb|left|300 px]]
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AVP Alien vs. Predator (2004) Official Trailer 1 - Alien Movie HD
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</gallery>
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== External links ==
 
== External links ==
* {{IMDb title|370263}}
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* {{IMDb title|0370263}}
 
* {{AllMovie title|288761}}
 
* {{AllMovie title|288761}}
 
* {{RottenTomatoes|alien_vs_predator}}
 
* {{RottenTomatoes|alien_vs_predator}}
 
* {{Wikipedia|Alien vs. Predator}}
 
* {{Wikipedia|Alien vs. Predator}}
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* [https://www.avpcentral.com Alien vs. Predator Central]
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Thousands of years ago, these hunters found a backwater planet. They taught humans how to build, and were worshiped as gods. Every hundred years, the gods would return. And when they did, they would expect a sacrifice. Humans were used to breed the ultimate prey. The hunters would battle with these great serpents to prove themselves worthy to carry the mark. But if the hunters lost, they made sure nothing survived. An entire civilization wiped out overnight.
Sebastian de Rosa

Alien vs Predator is a 2004 science fiction action horror film. It was directed by Paul W.S.Anderson and the screenplay was made by Paul W. S. Anderson and Shane Salerno. starring Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon and Tommy Flanagan.

It is based on the crossover Alien vs Predator franchise, a concept which originated in a 1989 comic book published by Dark Horse Comics, and it centers around a group of archeologists lead by billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland, who investigate a heat signal coming from the Antartic.

It was followed by Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

Plot

Warning: this text contains details about the plot/ending of the film.

In outer space, a satellite detects a mysterious heat source

beneath Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica. In response, billionaire capitalist Charles Bishop Weyland collects a group of scientists to investigate the heat source and claim any related discoveries for his international communications company Weyland Industries. The expedition includes palaeontologists, archaeologists, linguistic experts, drillers and Lex Woods, a guide with security provided by Max Stafford and his group of mercenaries.

As the group journeys to Bouvetøya, a spaceship enters Earth's orbit and fires a powerful energy beam towards the basis of the heat source. When the Weyland Industries expedition arrives at the site above the heat source, an abandoned whaling station, they find a massive hole buried deep into the ice by the energy beam, and they descend to investigate. On the base deep below, they discover a mysterious pyramid and explore it, finding sign of an evolution pre-dating written history and also discover a sacrificial chamber filled with skeletons with cracked rib cages. As they explore, one of the members from the expedition steps on a pressure plate that awakens a captive Xenomorph Queen from her artificially enforced cryogenic slumber in a chamber deep within the pyramid.

Meanwhile, three Predators known as Scar, Celtic and Chopper land on Earth and kill many members of the expedition camping at the whaling station, before descending towards the pyramid. Several eggs laid by the Queen are mechanically delivered to the sacrificial chamber, and several members of the expedition still exploring there are trapped inside and impregnated by Facehuggers. Chestbursters emerge from them and quickly develop into adult Xenomorphs. Unaware to these events, the rest of the Weyland Industries group continue on with their exploration and eventually discover the Predator's Plasmacasters in a casket inside the pyramid. Recognizing them as advanced technology, they take them for study but activate a mechanism that causes the pyramid to move its interior every minute.

The group is soon attacked by the Predators and most of the humans are killed, including Stafford and his mercenaries, while several others are taken by the Xenomorphs to be hosts for more species. The alpha Xenomorph known as Grid attacks and kills Chopper, causing Celtic to engage the Xenomorph in combat while the survivors escape. At first, Celtic gets the upper hand by slicing off Grid's tail and traps it in his wire net, where the Xenomorph gets tightened and is scarred with net wounds. Before Celtic can finish off Grid, its acid blood caused the net to dissolve, allowing the Xenomorph to break free and kills the Predator.

Meanwhile, Scar, now the last Predator left, pursues Lex, an archaeologist named Sebastian and Weyland intending to return the stolen Plasmacasters they have taken. Weyland stays to defend himself against Scar while Lex and Sebastian escape, but is killed after he angers the Predator by burning him with a flamethrower when Scar saw that Weyland was weaker and is already dying from cancer. Meanwhile, Lex and Sebastian are separated from Scar by the pyramid's shifting walls. As he waits for a chance to pursue, a Xenomorph and a Facehugger sneak up on the Predator while he is alone and try to subdue him. Scar kills them with his Shuriken, unmasks himself and gives himself a mark of his own using their acid blood. Suddenly, another Facehugger sneaks up on Scar and apparently subdues him due to the Predator not wearing his mask before he could put it back on.

Through translation of the pyramid's symbols, Sebastian and Lex learn that the Predators have been visiting Earth for thousands of years. They taught early humans how to build pyramids and were worshipped as gods. Every year, the Predators would return to Earth so that they would hunt Xenomorphs produced from sacrificial human hosts as the ultimate prey. If the Predators became overwhelmed, they would sacrifice themselves by activating a self-destruct device to eliminate the Xenomorphs, thus explaining the mysterious and rapid disappearance of several ancient cultures.

Sebastian and Lex realise that this is why the three Predators have returned to Earth again, and the heat source was a trap set up by them to lure the expedition group into the pyramid to be as bait for the Xenomorphs, so that the Predators can hunt them. They decide that the Predators must be allowed to succeed in their hunt, so that the Xenomorphs cannot wipe out all of humanity. Unfortunately, Sebastian is taken by the Xenomorphs, leaving Lex behind.

Scar appears where he finds Lex alone and she returns his stolen Plasmacaster to him rather than the Predator not killing her. When a Xenomorph attacks, Lex impresses Scar by killing it which then he mutilates the dead creature and fashions its parts as weapons for her such as its head as an acid proof shield and its tail as a spear. They make their way into the hive where they find Sebastian alive and cocooned. After he reveals to Lex that the Xenomorphs cannot reach the surface, she is forced to shoot him before a Chestburster erupts from Sebastian's chest, but Scar eventually kills it. Afterward, Scar and Lex then set up Scar's self-destruct device in order to destroy the pyramid as it is the only way to do it, hoping that all the Xenomorphs will all be wiped out when it detonates.

The two successfully escape and reach the surface just before the pyramid and the entire site are completely destroyed. After Scar gives Lex a mark of her own using Xenomorph blood, they are suddenly confronted by the Queen, who was still alive and revealing that she escaped the pyramid before it was destroyed when she was freed from her restraints by the Xenomorphs in her chamber. Scar and Lex fight the Queen until they notice a chain attached to her and tie it onto a water tower. They drop it over a cliff into the ocean which pulls the Queen underwater with it, causing her to sink to her watery grave. However, Scar had been impaled by the Queen's tail in the fight and dies peacefully from heavy wounds.

At that moment, a spaceship uncloaks and several Predators appear before Lex. They collect their fallen companion and the Ancient Predator gifts Lex a spear-like weapon in recognition of her skills as a warrior symbolized by the Xenomorph acid blood Scar had burned on her cheek before he died. The Predators then depart and leave Lex alone, but just as the ship leaves Earth and flies off into outer space, a Chestburster with Predator-like characteristics suddenly erupts from Scar's corpse, beginning the events of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem.

List of deaths

TBC

Cast

Reception

Alien vs. Predator was first released in North America on August 13, 2004 in 3,395 theaters. It had a budget of $ 60 million and earned a total of $172 million. Alien vs. Predator received negative reviews from film critics, but it was more commercially successful than any of the preceding films in the Alien and Predator franchises, which led to the sequel in 2007 Aliens vs Predator: Requiem.

Trivia

  • Charles Bishop Weyland is seen as an honourable man, unlike his successors.
  • Lance Henriksen is the only actor to appear in the Alien and Alien vs Predator franchise.

Videos

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