good visuals,not much suspense

Rating: 8/10 (15 February 2008)

I think that achieving the level of suspense from previous Alien movies was a tall order,simply because you cannot go on repeating the same scenario over and over again.
W.S. Anderson made a brave attempt to do a movie based not so much on the 2 franchises,but on the concept from a comic book instead...he also did make every effort to provide continuity and consistency with other alien and predator movies,but it was difficult to marry the two.
AvP at least has heaps of handcrafted art carved into the movie sets,it has bags of eye-candy not previously seen in any of the original movies - but was ruined by unconvincing characters/acting.
Although considerable screen time was given to character build-up,the viewer doesn't get to bond with either one of them.
The predator from the first movie also possessed hell of a lot more mystique and personality,compared to the ones in AvP.
All in all,Avp it makes for a good comic book to cinema conversion,and it looks very good.
8 out of 10 from me