You get what you pay for.....

Rating: 5/10 (18 August 2004)

I liked AVP, it wasn't too bad. It could of been a lot worse. The PG-13 rating really hurt this movie...It was stated before that there was a lot of on-screen kills...? What were these people watching? Name one on-screen kill where a human died. All the on-screen kills were deaths of Aliens or Predators where the MPAA lets go because they think it is unrealistic. In movies where things burst out of chests leaving blood flowing everywhere and where other aliens rip the spine + skull out with their bare hands and skin people alive, this movie should of gotten a R rating. But Paul Anderson and Co. wanted to be money whores and collect from the middle schoolers wallets, so we got BS. Most of the human deaths were unseen and when you did there would just be a claw or two though a body with droplets of blood on them, you call that on-screen kills? See "Predator" or "Aliens" and then you will see death beyond PG-13. But the worst part of this movie was the starting. For one whole hour we are introduced to a bunch of whiny idiots who we couldn't give a damn about. Come on! We don't care about your kids, just die already! I doubt there is anybody here that is watching this movie that needs or wants a reason for people to visit the pyramid. Just get to the fight scenes already! But when we were finally introduced to the battles they were a doozy. The one-on-one battle between the drone and pred was pretty darn cool (me being a predator fan myself would of liked to see a better outcome but you get what you pay for) *SPOILERS* The two predators who came with the main bad-ass pred were killed off WAY too early. I know that they are teenagers but I doubt that the predator clan would send them down so unexperienced, I mean they only go there every 100 years, they are going to send somebody who knows what they are doing.*END SPOILERS* But all in all I really enjoyed this movie, the ending was great...I was glad something from the game was included in the movie. 7/10