We can only wish upon a star for AVP2

Rating: 8/10 (11 January 2005)

Excellent film and deserves an 8 out of 10. Loved it for the action sequences, special effects, characters, atmosphere, storyline and oh yeah the predator. Borrowed a lot from the book Alien versus Predator: Prey by Steve Perry and arguably i found the book better than the film. Same female lead character who teams up with the predator and battles the aliens, although its obviously different circumstances the spine of the story is still the same, disappointing a little. Would of liked more fights between the alien/ predators and for the predators to be a little less whimpish, and to of lasted longer. Excellent SFX with the CGI used for distance shots and the models for the close ups and some of the fight work. Very pleasing on the eye as this lends to a more realistic feel for the film as opposed to the Hulk for instance. Could also of done with the whole film being longer and a more detailed look at weans character as he does pioneer the synthetic life-forms in alien. Although i expect more money would have to of changed hands for the alien franchise to of agreed to that. But the film is still quality and watchable repeatedly..
Borrowing from the above comment to place the films in order of movie quality, in my opinion it would be Predator (jus because it has arnie in it, and he shouts "go, run, get to the chopper!") Alien, Alien 2, AVP, Alien 3, Predator 2, Alien 4 (which was a total dogs breakfast)