Two great franchises ruined in 101 minutes...

Rating: Null/10 (28 October 2004)

Ughhhh... When I saw Paul WS Anderson was directing this film it immediately filled me with dread. I've been waiting for an AvP film ever since I heard about the comic books. Being a huge fan of the Alien and Predator films (except Aliens: Resurrection) I thought that AvP could've been a sci-fi fans dream. But, wait, what's that? A god awful script and a god awful director you say? Yup, yet again Hollywood destroys the day! Honestly, why oh why do they let brainless idiots write films? Or perhaps more correctly, why do they write films for brainless idiots? Despite their slightly far-out subject matter the Alien and Predator films held a certain amount of integrity, intelligence and maturity. Indeed Aliens and Predator are two of my favourite action films of all time, Alien is a classic tension-filled psychological horror and Alien 3, although it has it's flaws and which I wasn't too keen on at the time of it's release(I think I just wanted to see another Aliens)I have grown to admire it's style and tension. But rather than fuse the ingredients together that made these films great instead we are served with a film minus tension, originality and the slightest shred of intelligence. The storyline to the video games are far superior to this. What a waste of time and money.
I read somewhere that Paul W.S. (Weak Scripts?) Anderson said it was a sci fi fans' dream to be able to direct AvP. AvP is a nightmare.