That review totally suck, the guy apparently is troling, or really didn't even get the main story elements
and is trolling...
For example he ask why the predator don't use their guns, when we all saw the humans take the guns in an earlier scene...
</font>[/QUOTE]<font color=plum>I agree his review was probably overly harsh, but he has several good points. Yeah, the humans took the guns in an earlier scene, but his point was "WHY didn't the Pred's have their guns with them on the spaceship???" In the first two movies, the Pred's were facing a much easier prey (puny humans instead of acid-bleeding, spike tailed Aliens) and they came "loaded for bear" from the word go. In the first movie, the original Predator blasted several of Arnie's guys with his patented shoulder canon...so why didn't these "Chosen Champions" enter the "Arena of Combat" fully armed???
And the reviewer already said not to mention any thoughts about the Pred's having to "jump through hoops" in the Battle. Now, I don't totally agree with that. Surviving long enough to reach your plasma-blasting shoulder cannon might be a justified part of the Ritualistic Hunt itself...but he does have a point about it not being consistent with the first two movies where the Pred was armed to the teeth with hugely superior weaponry.</font>
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Originally posted by Luvian:
He's also apparently surprised that an alien is smart enough to retreat from a losing fight to come back from behind, claiming they are only as smart as animals. First of all, about any animal that hunt to survive would be able to do as much, and secondly, aliens take on some of the characteristics of their host. That dog alien in Alien 3 was smart enough to do it, why not a human alien?
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<font color=plum>Point Well Made. Even the "regular" Aliens in the second movie knew when to conduct a tactical retreat. They were all over the Space Marines until Vasquez opened up with her machine gun. Then they retreated back into their holes and came out to attack from a different spot.
Besides, even animals know when to retreat from a superior foe. When male animals in the wild fight for dominance, territory or leadership...the loser usually knows when to quit the fight. Otherwise, every one of those battles would be a fight to the death (rams, lions, wolves, bears, etc etc), in which even the victor might be permanently injured or incapacitated.
So ,yes, even animal knows when to retreat from a fight.
In fact, I'm reading a book to my boys about Great White Sharks. Nobody is going to argue the fact that Great Whites are an "apex predator" with no natural enemies. Yet one of the questions raised in the book was "Why don't the sharks kill humans with every attack? Why do they often just take one bite and leave?" One expert has studied Great Whites in the wild and observed this same technique when the Shark attacks a huge elephant seal. It will rush in to attack and bite a huge chunk out of the seal, but then it swims off without attacking anymore. Why? Because the initial attack will eventually prove fatal. The elephant seal will eventually bleed to death. So the shark simply follows at a safe distance and waits for the animal to die on it's own, rather than continuing an all-out attack that might result in the shark being injured by the elephant seal as it thrashes about.
Makes pretty good sense when you think about it.</font>