You get what you paid for..

Rating: 5/10 (2 February 2005)

With a title like "Alien Vs Predator," you're obviously going to expect some alien and predator battles, hopefully with some human interaction as well. AVP doesn't disappoint in that area. I thought the fight scenes were very good and the only saving grace of the movie. Other than that, well, there's nothing else. This is a bad movie.
It starts out okay enough, the pacing is true to the original alien films. It's slow and builds up tension...only to use its first shock on a penguin. But oh well. It only gets worse from there, though. We're introduced to a bunch of characters we obviously don't give a care about and are more than likely to die in terrible ways. That begs the question, why exactly are we being told that they have loving families waiting for them at home? Are we supposed to feel sympathetic when they die? I mean, come on, it's all or nothing. You should either not care at all about a character and chomp on popcorn as they're brutally killed, or truly feel bad when they die. AVP put me in an uncomfortable position. I didn't feel bad but I felt as if I was expected to.
The plot's ridiculous. I think anyone who's seen it and either loves it or hates it can agree with that. I don't think I've ever heard that it's a brilliant, original plot from anyone. But, honestly, I didn't really pay to see the movie for a plot. That would be nice and all, but I really just paid to see aliens and predators beat the ever-loving @#$%&! out of each other. I wasn't let down. That's the only merit the movie has anyway.
My rating: 5/10