Alien vs. Predator

Pros: had some good battles between aliens and predators
Cons: weakly presented, horrid human characters, disappointing as a whole, too boring at times

The Aliens and Predator franchises have been around for some time now, Alien tracing back to the late 70's, and the first Predator being an interesting action movie from the 80's. Both stories had important characters, basically villains, that made ...

Pros: Some decent action sequences and special FX.
Cons: Listless characters, same old same old.

An endless chasm revealed itself, and I thought I was watching The Abyss. Then these aliens got on a ship while a human watched, and took off, and I thought it was E.T. Then we were barreling through a narrow tunnel, with an explosion ...

Pros: Great battle scenes, decent special effects, fun film.
Cons: A bit too short.

Whoever wins, we lose. No, that’s not the theme of the 2004 presidential elections. It’s the tagline for the Twentieth Century Fox sci-fi thriller Alien vs. Predator. In truth, neither of these ferocious alien visitors has our best ...

Pros: Rapid-fire action and a brisk pace make this an entertaining popcorn flick.
Cons: The humans only serve as target practice and lunch; plot inconsistencies abound.

1979 marked the birth of the mega cash-cow Alien franchise, and eight years later, the deadly, invisible Predator hit the silver screen. Now director Paul Anderson takes the two most fearsome extra-terrestrial villains, tosses a bunch of clueless humans ...

Pros: Better than Alien 3&4 - but then so is getting kicked in the nuts.
Cons: Everything! Dear god, where do I begin?

Sweet mother of god - why, oh why does Hollywood allow Paul Anderson to continue to unleash monotonous, stupid movies on the unsuspecting movie going public? His track record - Resident Evil, Event Horizon, Mortal Combat and Solder - stand as exhibit A ...

Pros: Alien Vs Predator
Cons: Acting, Direction, Writing

I always believed that I would enjoy this film. Featuring the ultimate primal hunter going toe to toe with the ultimate in deadly prey was an idea that could not go wrong. Having read the books, seen the art work and somewhat played the game I also had ...

Pros: Special effects, good story, solid direction, action
Cons: Some lame acting

The success of last year’s Freddy Vs. Jason title really paved the way for another Vs. title to come and although it’s not the one I wanted (Conan The Barbarian Vs. Rambo) Alien Vs. Predator really delivers. The idea of this movie has been ...

Pros: decent sets; dark tone
Cons: plot holes; plot in general; acting; dialogue

Earlier this year, a dear friend of mine wrote a review of Alien vs. Predator and titled it C ome on, it wasn't that bad.... And though I have oodles of respect for Rob’s opinion, I must disagree on ...

Pros: Aliens and Predators return to the big screen
Cons: Pansy PG 13 version

This film takes two of the best "monsters" from the past 20 years and pits them against one another. In so doing, the film follows the legacy of the later films in both franchises. Lower budgets, films striving for an audience with the result being ...

Pros: ::Fun popcorn flick::
Cons: ::Might not be fun enough to pay $10 for, wait for rental::

I know, I know; yet ANOTHER review of Alien vs. Predator. As you may have noticed, this has not been the most well received film of the summer. Ebert and Roeper were not calling for an early Oscar nod and I was certainly not waiting all ...

Pros: That's a good question....
Cons: Nearly everything

In the endless pursuit of money, Hollywood will do it all. It seems like there is no bar set for how low they will go to make money off just plain sh*tty ideas and movies that usually end up insulting fans. This seems like the only logical explanation ...

Pros: Excellent special effects, thunderous sound, cast, entertaining.
Cons: Wrong setting, it's PG-13, the ending is obvious, plot-holes, monsters don't fight enough.

Yes, slashers are finally coming out to literally slash their competition in the movie business. Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees duked it out in the 2003 film Freddy v.s. Jason. Now a year later, the Alien and ...

Pros: Action!
Cons: Acting!

I gotta admit, I was kinda hoping ALIEN VS. PREDATOR would give PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE a run for the money as the worst sci-fi movie of all time, but no such luck. AVP actually turns out to be fairly entertaining. AVP is a novel concept movie for ...

Pros: Slick Predator technology, the big fight.
Cons: Horrible dialogue, overly complicated story, not enough Alien/Predator smack-down. PG-13, no big star

Is anyone really surprised that Alien Vs. Predator (AVP from here on out) wouldn’t live up to its potential? Am I here to slam it? Hardly. I had a good time, but wished for so much more, and like so many fans of both franchises I waited for so ...

Pros: the aliens would have looked cool under proper lighting
Cons: plodding story, devoid of any thrills, shamelessly rated PG-13

When a film opens with some chick scaling an Antarctic mountain who stops mid-trek to answer a cell phone call from a guy ten feet above her in a helicopter she never new was there, you sorta can’t have high hopes for what’s to come. If only this ...