 "Aliens, Predators, and Lance Henriksen, OH MY!" | 2010-03-12 |
| - Reviewed By Gabriel Hernandez |
The first and most obvious thing you should know about AVP: Alien Vs Predator is that it's not going to win any Oscars nor does it want to. This is a popcorn movie all the way through; 101 minutes of turn-your-brain-off-and-enjoy entertainment. Remember that going into this movie and you'll be a-okay.
With that out of the way, what is there left to say? If you like Aliens and Predators or you just want to see the two duke it out, then go for it. Of course my advice would be to rent the movie first to judge for yourself whether or not it's worth buying. If you're buying the Blu-ray version, then you should know that both the Theatrical Version and Unrated Extended Version are on the same disc. But be warned that, other than two Commentary tracks (for the Theatrical Version only) and a Trivia Track, there are no extras on the disc. None. Zero. Nada. There's no behind-the-scenes footage whatsoever, which is disappointing. On the other hand, there's one Commentary in which Sanaa Lathan talks about "flying vaginas" so that's pretty interesting. Or completely creepy. You decide.
Anyway, that's all there is to this movie. If you've seen Paul W.S. Anderson's previous films, such as Mortal Kombat or Resident Evil or his post-AVP masterpiece known as Death Race, then you pretty much know what to expect from AVP. This is a movie that's all about plenty of mindless action that hopefully keeps your mind off of the weak story. But hey, there's nothing wrong with that. Every so often I like to sit back, relax, and watch a movie that doesn't try to make me care about anything other than how big an explosion is. Okay, I did care about Lance Henriksen. But how could I not? He's Lance frickin' Henriksen! |
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 "good source of entertainment if you like strong women" | 2010-02-22 |
| - Reviewed By Hutch from Mississippi, USA |
| I wanted this film only for the female lead character I was interested in how Ms Lathan would perform in a true action film I thought she carried her own and was proud to add this title to my collection. I also thought the fight scene between the two alien species were well done and probably the best parts of the movie |
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 "AVP Movie Revew" | 2010-02-21 |
| - Reviewed By Benjamin Patrick from Seattle |
| The movie is decent, but in the end I would call it a one time see movie. Still if you're a alien fan it's a good idea to have this movie in your collecton. |
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| "Very Good Movie--true to the vision" | 2010-01-29 |
| - Reviewed By East West connection |
set forth by dark horse comics. Dark Horse comics has done a lot of excellent comic series w/ very strong story lines. One of their best is about a group of people w/ some colonial marines who end up on a predator sporting planet training arena. Ultimately everyone ends up buying it except for one woman and a super tough predator, who honors the woman by marking her, making her in essence a honorary predator of sorts and also giving her a kind of elite status. The tough pred buys it, and when the pred buddies finally show up the woman boards the ship to go around and do the pred thing, they can't say no, she has the right by baptism of fire.
this movie is based on that series, and does a great job in placing it in the modern earth setting. My only complaint is the incubation period of the aliens, which turned into minutes instead of a few days, and the woman does not board the pred ship.
Some people did not like this movie because it does not go out to be a crowd pleaser, doesn't have the real happy hollywood ending that most card board mvoies of today made in the states have, but then again in my book that is another plus |
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 "Alien VS Predator The Directors Cut" | 2009-12-10 |
| - Reviewed By www.myspace.com/mrloco from The Bay Area, CA |
When I first saw this movie in theaters I was a little bit disappointed after being a huge fan of the comics since the first series came out in 1990. The story in the comic took place in the future on a planet that the Weyland-Yutani company had colonized and a group of predators infested the planet with aliens which they later on went to hunt, unaware of that there were humans on the planet.
It was a great comic book, which if it was made in to a movie it would probably be the hit movie of the decade, but instead Fox and Paul WS Anderson wanted to go their own way and try something different. They kept elements from the comic, such as the chick who teams up with the predator and her earning the mark of a hunter, but besides that, there's nothing that's the same. Instead they made the movie a prequel to Alien and a sequel to Predator which involves Weyland industries finding a heat bloom in Antarctica which turns out to be a pyramid that Weyland and his scientists suspect to be built by the first civilization, which I actually thought was pretty cool. Anyway a group of Scientists, explorers and mercenaries join together to go check it out and they get a whole lot more then what they expected and the hunt begins.
The theatrical movie to me had quite a few plot holes and some things just didn't really make since like for instance, the very fast growth cycle of the aliens (which even with the directors cut, still doesn't really make any since), and the whole thing of it being PG-13 kind of dumbed it down a little too much for me at first. When I bought the movie on DVD later I appreciated it more, but still I wouldn't call it great. After I got to see the 8 minute longer Unrated Version, or Directors cut or what ever you want to call it, I appreciated it a whole lot more.
The unrated version has a little bit more blood and gore, but not that much though. Instead we get a whole lot more dialog in the movie and some scenes that just felt like it completed what was missing before.
Also I noticed that this movie is made to feel more like an Alien movie than a Predator movie. The movies first half is mostly dialog, while the second half is action and even though it doesn't take place in space, the beginning of this movie when the crew is on the ship getting ready to dock at Antarctica, kind of has the same feel of what Aliens had when the colonial marines are on the Sulaco getting ready to set down on LV-426.
Anyway, this is a great movie and being a fan of the comics for so long, this is what I've all ways wanted to see and AVP Unrated Edition works great and even though it's only 8 minutes longer, it still does the trick and is a lot better than the theatrical version.
There's also tons of special features and an exclusive AVP Comic Book is also included!
If you're a fan of Aliens or the Predator Franchise, I definitely recommend that you add this to your collection. If you didn't like the theatrical version, I still think you should give this one a shot and keep an open mind about it. If you don't like it for the fact that it's 2 universes combined with each other and if you're narrow minded about AVP in general, then this is movie not for you.
I give this movie 5 Stars (since so many try to trash this movie, I'm adding an extra star)
And I give the theatrical version 3 Stars |
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| "IT'S A FUN MOVIE" | 2009-11-25 |
| - Reviewed By Michael J. Scott from Tallahassee, Florida |
| I read these reviews written by these movie intellectuals and I remember why I buy a movie. I buy it because of its entertainment value, not because the director once passed gas on the set or the cinematographer suffered from a case of severe acne. This is a fun movie, filled with action, from the first moment to the last. The sound is awesome, especially if you have a home theater set up, although it was really pretty good when I didn't have one. If you are fan of the Alien flicks, or if you just like a rollicking roll of fun I can recommend this movie, even if one of the lead actors had a pimple. |
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