IT IS A ACTION MOVIE

Rating: 8/10 (23 August 2004)

OK film snobs, this was a ACTION MOVIE, rate it as a action movie. I thought it was great, a wonderful joining of two great ideas. I was hyped up about this movie. I watched my Quadrilidy, and Predator/Predator 2 before I went to see this ACTION movie. It had a few cheesy moments, but if you had ever seen a alien, or predator movie, you might stand a better chance enjoying this movie, vs. just going to the movies on Saturday night and saying, "Hmm, AVP eah? Wonder if it has Sean Penn in it, let's go watch it, and see if we can slam it on IMDb."
You have to Love the subtle scenes that were imported in such as the opening screen with the alien looking object that transitions into a Satellite as used in the alien films, the light that flows into the room and causes a "Scan" like the life scanner that was used in the alien films.
You have to love Lance Henriksen's role. Although, I wish they would have had a very primitive version of a synthetic person on the team, or on the ship. This could have easily been a 3 hour movie, or maybe even a 2 volume production, it would have been better then that shameless crap that Terentino vomited all over the screen with the Kill Bill collection. (Volume 1 was...OK, I enjoyed it, but volume 2 was PATHETIC)