When the wealthy and ambitious Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) funds an expedition to Antarctica, he hopes to find a mysterious source of heat that has been detected. Led by a tough guide, Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan), Weyland and his team uncover a pyramid, but they also find malevolent parasitic aliens. Making matters worse, another extraterrestrial species, known as Predators, arrive to hunt the other aliens, with the humans caught in the middle of the conflict.
It's better than the film but it also burrows heavily from the original AVP, aka the graphic novel which is why I gave it three stars because it would have been better if they just made a direct version of it rather than one that pretends to be something else. The female survivor in this one (like Alexa Woods) in the film, is obviously based on Machiko Noguchi who was a total badass.