its all about respect

Rating: 1/10 (21 March 2005)

The creators/writers of this film had obviously no respect for either franchise. I don't understand how some people on these boards say that people who didn't like the movie are being overly critical. The truth is that even if you are not a alien/predator geekboy, the film does not stand up at all. I felt nothing for the characters, i thought the action sequences were really badly done and the story was awful. To anyone who disagrees, i say do this....go back and watch alien, aliens and alien 3, then predator and predator 2...ok? now all those films had an interesting story and they all had reasonable character development (you actually cared what happened) and they all were fun to watch ( hell i even liked alien 4). The main point is that even if a film is science fiction, it should still make sense in its own way....with this film there were so many gaps in logic that i realised that the creators of this film really didn't care about the end result....they were just looking to make bucks. Its funny, films like alien and predator were risky projects at the times they came out cos nobody new they would do well...and it amazes me that movie companies are willing to risk on the first film, but after that if it does well, they all try to rehash the same story over and over. I was really disappointed with this film, i remember playing the alien versus predator game a few years ago (my first introduction to this crossing of the two franchises), and thinking what a great film it would make. I just don't understand why the creators of the film felt the need to bring the story to present dayand make gradoise claims about the origin of civilisation....if they wanted to cut the special effects costs, they should have based it in a remote futuristic laboratory where scientists discover something in the aliens the predators want and shot it all in doors, reducing alien and predator on screen time to a minimum as in previous films, and building up the tension. There was simply no tension here....i would have preferred it if they had just spliced up the first couple of films from either franchise and directly combined em...it would have made a much more entertaining story.