* * * ½ Good for Escapist Entertainment

Rating: Null/10 (13 August 2004)

(*WARNING: A Couple of Small SPOILERS*)
I will be rating ALIEN VS PREDATOR (AVP) on three levels, on a scale of 5 *s, and then give the average total. Before I do that, though, this is how I rated the PREDATOR and ALIEN movies that preceded AVP:
PREDATOR - * * * * *; PREDATOR 2 - * * * *; ALIEN - * * * * ¾; ALIENS - * * * * *; ALIEN³ - * * *; ALIEN: RESURRECTION - * * * *
Now, my four level rating for AVP:
Pure Escapist Entertainment - * * * * *
The Story/Plot Compared to those of the PREDATOR and ALIEN Legacies - * * *
Personal Satisfaction (i.e. How did it live up to the hype I thought it would be?) - * * ½
Overall Total - * * * ½
I've been waiting for this movie for 14 yrs., now. I built up what I thought this movie should be, in my head. Thus, it was fairly easy for 20th Century Fox to let me down. Once it was over, as the end credits started to roll, I hadn't got mine. The way the movie ended, it could have easily gone on for another 30-45 minutes, on the Predator Mothership, and then maybe I would have been satisfied. I wanted to see an adult Alien that gestated in a Predator in action !!! Hopefully, when AVP comes out on DVD there will be a Directors/Renegade version that's rated R to satisfy my needs. Anyways, I still recommend this movie to everyone. I want to see this movie to well. That way, in the near future they can make an AVP 2 that can be made correctly.