AvP, Entertaining but has its flaws...

Rating: 8/10 (18 May 2005)

AvP...didn't live up to my expectations, but was entertaining nonetheless. I feel that it lacked likable characters, a concept of time (For instance a lady gets a face hugger on her, then literally a few minutes later she chestbursts), a good storyline (The pyramid idea was interesting but I guess I would have rather seen maybe a story from one of the comic books rather than it), a good predator costume (The special effects in this movie were top notch in my opinion except for the actual face of the predator. I thought that it looked better in 1987 with the first predator movie), BLOOD! (This was the only movie in the whole Alien or Predator franchise to be rated PG-13. When Ewen Bremner's character Miller chestbursted and the predator caught the chestburster and snapped its neck there was no blood on that thing at all.)
I also did not like the idea that two of the three predators in the movie were dead within the first ten minutes of fighting. Then the third predator (Scar) ended up being a good guy and working with Lex (Lathan). I feel that that was a false image of the predator, if you look at the first two movies they were ruthless killers.
Regardless of anything that I said previously I liked the movie just for the fact of seeing both the Alien and the Predator in the same frame. I have been waiting to see this since I read the first Alien Vs. Predator comic book. Even know I was somewhat disappointed, I'm still glad that it was made.