AVP: Alien Vs. Predator

Rating: 6/10 (20 June 2005)

If you liked the space thriller with Sigourney Weaver, or the jungle thriller with Arnold Schwarzenegger, then you will love it when the creatures from the film do battle with each other, from director Paul W.S. Anderson (Resident Evil). It is 2004, and a private satellite, owned by billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen), discovers an unidentified heat source in Antarctica, coming from a pyramid deep beneath the ice. So he sends a team of top-of-the-line archaeologists and engineers to go with him and explore, these include Alexa Woods (Blade's Sanaa Lathan), Sebastian De Rosa (Raoul Bova), Graeme Miller (Trainspotting's Ewen Bremner) and Maxwell Stafford (Colin Salmon). Once there, through taking some unknown weapons, they trigger a chain reaction closing many of the doors, and waking the frozen Alien mother who lays the eggs containing face huggers that lay new Aliens in the humans. Meanwhile, the Predator ship has landed and three of the humanoid warriors have entered the pyramid to destroy the Aliens. Through inscriptions on the walls, they find out that these creatures used to rule the human race during the dawn of man, and the Predators had to prove themselves worthy by fighting the Aliens, but it ended when one of them set of a bomb to kill all in the area, this new battle is basically another chance. The special effects never fail, some familiar faces are good, and the action is cool, obviously not as good as the first time you saw the Aliens and Predators, but still a cool film. Good!