If you hate a movies director...

Rating: 10/10 (13 August 2004)

If you hate Paul Andersons past movies like Event Horizon or Soldier, is it fair to say that you will hate AvP? No, it's not. But it seems that people would have you think exactly that. Go into this with an open mind for action/sci-fi and you will come out having seen a good movie. Not great (unfortunatly), but good.
In these days where making longer movies is more acceptable to movie goers - this movie needed to be longer. Only because more explanation of the Weyland character and his company would have helped tie this movie into the Alien series a lot better. It might have explained why in Alien and Aliens, the 'Company' was so intent on sending people to bring back an alien - no matter what the cost. I had hoped this would have shed light on those future events, but it didn't happen.
Do I remember any of the other characters names besides Lex? No. Did I go into this movie expecting to care for all the supporting cast? No, but neither was I when I went and saw Aliens - and ended up getting sucked into all the different characters and their personalities - and caring whether they got killed or not, or if they backstabbed someone (damn Burke!). It just wasn't done with this movie.
I thought the Aliens, and the Predators were to die for. I caught myself leaning forward towards the screen and wringing my hands together whenever there was an alien on screen fighting a predator - I was amazed.
What I missed was the creepy atmosphere from the Alien seies. In this movie, if there was an alien around, you would see slime, then immediately hear it and then see it. There wasn't enough tension built up.
If the 3 predators were 'young' predators, then damn... They seemed to be twice the size of the predators from the predator movies... I guess they had good genes...
People in the theater did laugh. And not a good, funny laugh - but kinda like 'this is silly' towards the end. But it didn't ruin it for me.
I guess that we still need to find out where the Aliens really come from, as well as the Predators ... I guess those movies are next...
6.5/10