Timo's Movie Review: Aliens v Predator

[Timo]

Just watched it.

Well I'll start off saying that if you're not a Sci-Fi person then stay away from this one. I think only science fictions fans would like this one. I found it a bit disapointing. I won't reveal any endings or major plot stuff in my review, like I have on others previous, because I... Well, I just don't feel like going through it with this movie.

Basics are that it explains the whole Predator phenomena, and their relationship to humans. It shows them as an "Honourable Hunter" figure, and seems to ignore at the end that the whole purpose they use humans as is food for their ultimate prey... the Aliens. The end is very surprising and a good twist, I certainly didn't expect it. I smell a sequel to this movie, just by the cliff-hanger ending alone. They speeded this film way to fast. It seems they wasted all their money on graphics and special FX (which are good, BTW), and didn't have enough money for extra film. I felt it cramed everything into a short amount of time. The hibernation for the Aliens is way too short, and doesn't correspond to the original Alien movie, unless these are a different subspecies or enhanced Alien, (which is not suggested in the movie) I think they messed up on that part. The Cast is not a good bunch at all. First problem I had was obvious, there were two negroes and one of whom was the main character. That was a turn off, but I'm not going to shut off a movie cause it has negroids in the cast. The other problem with the cast was that most were no-names; except the boss of the crew (forgot his name), I haven't seen any of them in any film I can name, and I've seen a bunch of films. Their acting was lacking, except the main character and the employer, I'd give them that. A lot of things were cliché and to be expected, like for instance falling down a shaft and in the dark finding yourself face to face with an Alien, which opens its mouth to reveal a secound mouth - something that was over done, in my opinion. I liked the way they tied the human civilizations of the past with the Predators, since I love ancient history and science/sci-fi, it appealed to me. The notion of a race of honourable hunters that kill for sport but are intelligent, compassionate, ritualistic and at the same time fierce killing machines, really apeals to me. They didn't reveal much about the Aliens' origin or purpose, other than their use as sport/ritual. As I was saying about the time line, it is condensed and people start to die too fast once the "ritual" starts. If one liked the Predator or Alien series', and would like to see an explanation to the former, then they should watch this movie. It has good action, special FX, climax and ending. Other than that, it was 'ok' and not worth paying good money on if you don't want another ET 'blow-em-up' movie.

From a scale, 0-5
FX: 3
Story: 2
Acting: 1
Action: 3
Overall: 2

[Svyatoslav]

2/10

[Timo]

Originally Posted by The Blond Beast

2/10

Please explain, if you would, for the benifit of others, why would gave it only a 2 of 10, and why you only wrote four characters without an explainion.

I am not being facetious, I would like to hear other opinions.

[Svyatoslav]

Originally Posted by Timo

Please explain, if you would, for the benifit of others, why would gave it only a 2 of 10, and why you only wrote four characters without an explainion.

I am not being facetious, I would like to hear other opinions.

Despite its potential, it was simply an awful movie: risible premise, risible action, risible "logic"; ergo, 2/10. I downloaded it, and am nonetheless still slightly furious.

[Biggles]

I DL it to, I wouldn't of broken the law if I'd known how crap it is .

[Timo]

What specifically makes it crap, biggles?

BTW, since when do you care of laws?

[Constantinus]

It sucked, I give it a 3/10 for the simple reason that although I am a sci fi fan, it really bored me when I was watching it.

[Gil]

OK, my short-review:

Being a fan of both the predator and alien themes and after playing games based on the license and watching the Alien saga endlessly I can say that AvP was a big dump of fertilizer, if not for the common movie-goer as for the aficionados. The plot is simple (not to say dumb) and the action itself is too limiting. I comparison to both the Alien movies and the Predator ones, this looks like a rushed flick, which didn't please the more die-hard fans.

From a scale, 0-5
FX: 2
Story: 1
Acting: 1
Action: 2
Overall: 2

[Timo]

You think they will release another if the fans thought it was a crapper?

[Gil]

I'm not really understanding what you mean there mate....are they making a sequel? If so I hope they are aiming for a better movie. If you mean that they are making a sequel because the movie was a hit....then it must've been a hit in the US 'because european reviews were pretty low.
I hope another Predator movie will come out but perhaps only with Jerry Bruckheimer or someone of his quality will the movie truly have quality.

this is, of course, my opinion, and i'm neither in the industry nor a professional critic.

Cheers

[Biggles]

Originally Posted by Timo

What specifically makes it crap, biggles?

Its just another churn her out Hollywood rake the cash in, watch it once and forget about it film, effects were good, the rest seen it all before....

BTW, since when do you care of laws?

I don't. I'm British

btw I remember Fox said if the film did poorly they would continue the Alien/Predator franchises seperately.