painful

Rating: 1/10 (17 September 2004)

I can take a lot when watching sci-fi films. I loved both the Aliens and Predator movies. And add to that the fact that I went into this movie with very low expectations due to the poor reviews I saw beforehand.
And I still came out of it terribly disappointed. I would have walked out had I not been there with friends. It was so bad that I found it more interesting to eavesdrop on the couple sitting behind me than to watch the movie - and people talking in movies is normally a major peeve of mine.
On paper this should have been a classic. The overall story concept wasn't too bad. The 'mythology' behind what was going on in the movie was clever. But thats about where the praise stops.
The characters had no depth. I could have lived with that, but everything about them dripped of cliché. But you'd think the action would make up for it. It didn't. I didn't find the action in any way exciting. Bad direction or what, I don't know. I just know I couldn't wait for it to be over.
Quite easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'd watch the D&D movie over and over again, straight for 15 hours, before I watched AvP again.