Not Bad At All

Rating: 6/10 (11 January 2008)

Actually I think that AVP is not a bad attempt at such a film. The characters while unremarkable are fleshed out pretty well in most cases. The trouble of course is that there are to many people in this film. The reason Alien worked so well is because there were only 7 people in the whole film and as such you could spend some time on them. When you have large number of people running around and getting killed it's impossible to feel anything for them.
Anyway on the whole this film was OK, not great but OK. The visuals were good with the Aliens and Predators looking as mean as ever, the pyramid was dark and atmospheric and the introduction of Lance Hendrecson as Weyland certainly gave the film a great deal of credibility. I have just come back from watching AVPR and believe me this film is a masterpiece compared to the latest attempt to continue this shrinking franchise.
6 out of 10