Anderson's crossover came six years on from Alien: Resurrection and 14 after Predator 2, making it more a reboot of both franchises than a continuation team-up. Like its fellow early-2000s horror icon showdown Freddy vs. Seeing Xenomorph blood melt somebody's face is cool, having Chestbursters emerge from a child and a ward full of pregnant women is not. It's narratively dull and visually dark, with the only real moments of inspiration from directors the Strause brothers doing some experimenting with the R-rating, and that's a very mixed bag. Cinematography and post-production are equally lackluster, with the whole movie presented in high-contrast, high-saturation imagery. This one does not (unlike contemporary '80s throwback ' 00s crossover Freddy Vs. Many cheap movies have great scripts, direction, or acting. The action is rife with weak internal logic, and the low production budget compared to AvP is painfully obvious, although that doesn't excuse or explain all of Alien Vs. The string of potential victims have broad backstories and weak relationships messily established before they're picked off in an oddly paced escalation in genre cliché locations – forest, school, hospital, etc. Once more though, it failed to match the resounding success of the first two entries or the novelty-value box office figures of crossover AvP. This led to revisions of an old 1990s script set in space, which became 2010's Predators, but the series then faced another gap of almost a decade before Shane Black's The Predatorarrived in 2018. Predator and AvP: Requiem soon came but weren't the success studio Fox expected. Various Predator 3 versions were stuck in development hell throughout the 1990s, but by the '00s, the presence of a xenomorph skull in Predator 2 had spawned a series of comic book Alien crossovers. The sequel also switched out commandos in the jungle for cops in the city, starting the franchise tradition of rolling the dice with settings and scenarios. The great premise and direction helped secure Predator as a budgetable IP for studios, and it was followed up by the bigger-scale sequel Predator 2 in 1990, although this time with Danny Glover in the leading role instead of an Arnold Schwarzenegger return.

The Predator franchise kicked off in 1987 with the titular Predator featuring then-rising megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger alongside some of the best visual SFX and prosthetics seen till then in cinema.

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