Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1/4
Avoid This Fox Cash Grab
Ian - wrote on 09/15/2015
Not true to either of its parent franchises, this watered down cash grab is an excellent example of how Fox treats it properties. Squeeze out a quick buck and leave the franchise dead and buried like toxic waste. Everything is forgettable. The plot was stupid and seemed like a young child wrote it. This human mountain climber lady manages to kill like 2 predators and a few aliens and an aliens queen, like its no big deal, and the predators are all heaping praise on her and finding her worthy etc... How come it took 6 elite SEALs to take down ONE predator back in the first film, now one human, who isn't even military trained can take them down like nothing and even an alien queen? Ridiculous bastardization and a disgrace to the name. Fox has done and continues to do this kind of this with …
Rating of
3/4
Surprisingly Good!
Lee - wrote on 10/28/2012
Never had any interest in seeing this upon it's initial theatrical release as i had already saw another monster vs monster movie and thought it sucked...Freddy Vs. Jason so with that godawful movie in mind i had little and no interest in seeing yet another of my two favorite film franchises once again merge and do battle. Bored out of my mind last night flicking through the channels on my sattelite i started watching the cut up movie that AMC had to offer on their Kevin Smith hosted Fear Fest (for those that do not know about what this is ...AMC usually air nothing but horror films on the weeks surrounding Halloween) Anyhoo...saw that a Predator marathon of sorts was showing along with Predator 1-2 AVP was on next so i'm it's not like i was doing anything anyhow...sigh...might as well …
Rating of
2.5/4
"AVP" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/07/2012
A research team investigating an ancient pyramid discovered beneath the Antarctic are caught in the middle of a battle between two hostile alien races. Paul W. S. Anderson is a damn hack, which makes it deeply annoying that I actually quite enjoyed this film. The action sequences are pretty damn good; the scene where a predator fights toe to toe with an alien is worth 3 stars on it's own. Unfortunately, the rest of the film doesn't quite measure up to its heritage. In a way it reminded me of Jurassic Park because it's a creature feature where the creatures are much more interesting than the people involved; characterisation is sketchy at best, a mistake too many writers make because it makes it impossible to care what happens to everyone. Even Sanaa Lathan is sexy and sassy, but at the …
Rating of
2.5/4
Decent fan service, if nothing else...
Jonzor - wrote on 07/01/2009
Meh, what did you really expect? There's the Aliens... that part of the movie is pretty predictable. The Predator... again, pretty much what you'd expect. Then there are the humans... a bit too much of them, if you ask me, but they needed a big cast to keep the death count for the movie up.
I'd say the biggest problem with this movie was that it didn't quite get enough of a dose of either film it pulled from...
*spoilers*
It was sad that there were three predators at the start of the movie and two of them died before the end of the first action sequence. I was really looking forward to a movie that featured predators working together.
Also, the Aliens just didn't quite 'cause enough carnage. I could have taken one more like... chase through the temple with an Alien and a …
Rating of
1/4
35%
CJP - wrote on 10/28/2008
Action: 1.5/3 + Comedy: 0/2 + Good vs Evil: 0.5/1 + Love/Sex: 0.5/1 + Special Effects: 0.5/1 + Plot: 0.5/1 + Music: 0/1 = 3.5/10 or 35%.
I'm not basing this write-up on my love of the comics- it is far too easy to point out the superiority of the Dark Horse series. Not one single thing in this film is likeable though and when experimenting with combining horror/sci-fi legends always remember this: Aliens is A-class material, despite the atrocities of part 3 and most of 4, the first 2 are genuine classics. Predators are popular, but they are B-material babies all the way. Predators are in the same league as Freddy vs Jason. Schlok, fun, slightly scary alpha-males. Predator vs Jason vs Freddy would have been a schlok riot.
Instead though, the Predators are static. We saw them accept …
Rating of
2.5/4
At least it's not "Freddy vs. Jason"
The M.O.W. - wrote on 08/01/2008
Two of the most popular modern-day movie monsters square off in this highly anticipated, though somewhat weak, motion picture.
A millionaire (Lance Henriksen) hires a group of archaeologists and other experts to investigate a pyramid which lays 2,000 feet below the surface of Antarctica. What they find are two alien species -- one a hunter, the other its prey.
They also discover that the pyramid has moving walls and chambers which cut them off from one another. They then discover, after many have died from being killed by mainly the ones we know as the Alien, that the Predators have kept an Alien Queen so it could produce offspring for the Predators to hunt for practice.
The movie is very slow moving, and does not have much of a good build to the first appearance by the …
Rating of
1/4
Wow
chiggles - wrote on 05/31/2008
As a fan of both the Alien and Predator series, I was coming at this film expecting way to much from it. One thing about this movie, it is simply mindless entertainment, because if your like me and expect a lot from this movie then you wont like it. Im not saying I dont like it, its cool and awesome in its small ways but I was just way to dissapointed with it to enjoy it to its full. Paul WS Anderson, the guy who brought us the first two Resident Evil films tries to bring real Pg-13 horror to the screen. Thats one thing I didnt understand, Aliens and Predators are two of the most violent and brutal creatures to ever hit screens, then you put them together in what could have been an amazing movie, and make it pg-13.
Set in the early 21st century on Earth, Charles Weyland, an …
Rating of
2/4
Decent Yet Unsatisfying
ZJW - wrote on 01/22/2008
Alien vs Predator is a film that isn’t as bad as many people make it out to be. It isn’t a great film by any stretch but bringing the Alien and Predator together on-screen isn’t exactly an easy task, especially with 20th Century Fox pulling the strings. Paul W. Anderson seemed to impress them well enough with his concept and this is what Fox whipped up.
The basic premise of the film goes against continuity set in the Alien films by placing Aliens on present day Earth. They manage to get away with it however by setting the film in the remote region of Antarctica and keeping the Aliens beneath the surface. The setting is something I found to be fantastic about this film. I enjoyed the Arctic Whaling Station as well as the Pyramid beneath the ice. I wish more time was spent both on …
Rating of
2.5/4
AvP
TheWolf - wrote on 07/30/2007
Alien and Predator, two different movies that came together simply because the original directors found appreciation in each others work and decided to give a nod to each others work, starting in Predator when there is a shot inside the craft, and there is an Alien head.
After that, there were video games, comic books and a number of fan stories written about the two characters dueling it out. Then in 2004 the fans got what they really wanted, the movie was released to the fans lined up to see it. Unfortunately while the fans were dying to see the movie, it didn't go over with such rave reviews.
When I got to see it I thought it was great. I really liked a lot of the cross over the information, everything from Charles Bishop Weyland, the man that the Bishop robot was modeled after to …
