I'm curious how each species was given respect. To me, it feels like one of those godawful comic books but with more cumbersome Predators. The Aliens in this have their moments but are also shown to be completely daft.
For me, this movie's highlight is the great artistic camera work and neat little touches which you can tell come from someone who has a passion for it. Look at the shots of Antarctica as they sail through the ice, the Predator ship that silently flies overhead of an unsuspecting person, the hibernating Queen as she rises up on her hoist into the pagan-looking altar. There's many more examples, but all of this sort of stuff is fantastic. It's just a damn shame the characters and the creatures are terrible.