Lame.
The movie Alien vs Predator is every bit as I had expected from a movie with a Heavy Metal music theme in its movie trailer. The actual movie had a better and non-Heavy Metal theme music though.
Without a Ripley in Alien nor a Dutch in Predator, AVP lacks the excitement from its predecessor movies. More unfortunately, both creatures have been so overexposed in the previous movies, AVP also lacks the thrill in a thriller.
At best, AVP only added a bit of a storyline to the fictitious human history. However, Stargate did a so much better job at such it overshadowed AVP into more of a children story and a “copycat” to Stargate than an archaeological Sci-Fi thriller.
I am a sucker for Aliens, and actually rather enjoyed AVP, as a horror movie. The worst nightmare for homo sapiens, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. Beats Freddie, or Jason, or Chucky limps down, and make Jem’Hadar fighters look like wimps.
All those other series you’ve mentioned were more comedies than horror movies.
Alien, the first movie was a true blue horror movie. I like A1 one very much. Right up there with the Exorcist and the Omen. All subsequent sequels including AVP were nothing more than action movies where A2 was still quite good, but A3 began to bore and what the hell was that A3 ending anyway which was directly copied from Terminator 2’s ending?! I didn’t bother to watch A4. Predator 1 was good, and P2 was OK.
Try Species 8472, the ones who made the Borg ran for their lives.