God no more....

Rating: 5/10 (21 November 2009)

I skipped through it the first time cause it was boring me but after reading into the Alien stuff recently, I decided to give it another chance. Yeah, doesn't surprise me why I skipped on it the first time. The characters are terrible. I don't know why they elaborated on like 4 different sets of characters, they're all stock, one dimensional, and boring. Not one stands out like Segorney Weaver or Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Plus I dunno why they keep trying to do the whole horror suspense thing with these franchises. I think it only worked with the first Predator but even then it was better when the action kicked in. Aliens and Resurrection also worked better as action films and character studies with a FEW characters rather than a whole town. Like I care about a bunch of hicks and abercrombie and finch wearing kids getting gutted and skinned alive. They even managed to make the Predator and Xenomorphs boring. As cheesy as the first movie was, at least I give them credit for keeping a little bit of my interest intact. I don't know why they gave the directing helm to a couple of guys who only did commercials (they ain't no David Fincher). Or worse yet, the screen writing job to a hack.
The main problem is that they thought they were doing the franchise justice by throwing in some gore and naughty words to seemingly justify giving it an R rating without actually putting some quality work into it. Yea the last film was PG-13 but making guts spill a little and say "**** you" a couple of times didn't make this movie any better. The story is so poorly constructed, there's no suspense, there's no excitement, you just want a nuke to fall down and kill everything just so you can see the credits and move on with your life (oh wait, that's what happens). And its barely an hour and 20 minutes, not enough time to tell a compelling story (though thankfully at the same time i'm glad its short).