OUTSTANDING!

Rating: 9/10 (13 August 2004)

Don't gauge this movie by the average score. Thats a great yardstick for 98% of the movies......but here, with AVP theres a huge "love it or hate it factor."
I've commented before on the double standard used in reviewing movies. I saw AVP today, with admittedly, low expectations....but I left blown away. I think the movie was easily as good as 80% of the Alien movies and much better then Pred 2.
I think its fascinating....that with 248 votes there were 155 votes of 10.0, the next most frequent vote was 1 with 27 votes. In third was 8 with 15 votes.
I think its fascinating to try to look within that huge chasm of votes.
155 10's.............................27 1's Avg 5.9.........median 8.0
I think being a "franchise" movie....is part of the "WHY"...in the vote split. I'd be interested to hear others thoughts as to why.
I'm in my 50's with a broken back....and sitting beyond 30 minutes is painful. But I've found my back to be an excellent yardstick of how "entertaining or captivating" a movie is. I probably walk out of half the movies I start.
I loved just about everything about this movie. The special effects, the actors, characters, story and the allegiance to previous movies in each series. I know the auteur set will raise their noses to this, but I thoroughly enjoyed this movie....in fact as much if not more than any other movie this year. I'm one of 63% that gave it a 10.
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