The movie opens with the fairly predictable and formulaic "rounding up" of various scientists and specialists for some unknown, well-paying, ultra-secret and super-urgent task. Expressions like "it was an offer I couldn't refuse" turn up often. It is eventually revealed that Weyland, using thermal satellite imaging, has discovered an ancient temple-pyramid complex far beneath the Antarctic icecap. The structures pre-date the pyramid civilizations of Egypt and the Americas, leading Weyland to believe that this could be the site of an ancient Master Culture. To explore this finding, he needs a drill team, specialists in Aztec and Egyptian archaeology, and an environmental scientist (Lex). Aliens seem to be the last thing on anyone's mind, although at least one soldier and an ex-soldier appear to be part of the group. Does Weyland expect some trouble after all? There seems to be some friction between the roughneck drillers brought along, and the scientists. But what are the drillers there for, if not to provide a large supply of expendable characters? Once inside the pyramids, the group discover disturbing remains, including piles of human skeletons with holes in the chest (from Alien "chest-bursters"), and fossilized Alien "face huggers." It seems that the temple was either built or infested by Aliens in Earth's distant past. The movie, of course, needs a romantic angle. This is fulfilled by the attraction between Lex and Sebastian (the Aztec archaeologist), and is terminated later in the movie when Sebastian is caught by an Alien, given the full cocoon treatment, and incubated with a chest-burster.


 Starring : Lance Henriksen, Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Boya, Ewan Bremner
 Genre: Science Fiction, Action, Horror
 Running Time : 1 hrs. 34 min
 Production Company : 20th Century Fox
 Release Date:   August 6, 2004