Underneath the artic ice, a heat pulse sparks the attention of a Weyland Industries survey satellite. Quickly assembling a team of scientist and miners, the corporation lead by it's founder Bishop Weyland head up to inspect the pulse. Buried beneath the ice Weyland and crew find an ancient pyramid that holds more than just buried secrets. Now he and his crew will become trapped in a battle of intergalactic proportions and historic consequences.

Finally after fifteen years the wait is over, and it wasn't worth it. I had such high hopes going into this film, from the trailers to the promos I was enthralled for this film, but I felt very let down.

First off there is some very good points to this film, so here goes. The predators and the aliens both look amazing.

The predators are fearsome and move with true realism, the aliens are fluid and slithery and at the end the queen alien looks as good as the T-Rex from Jurassic Park. Also if there was CGI it was minute and unnoticeable, very well done. The film also has tons of references to the other films in both franchises and other sci-fi and horror films, see if you can catch them.

Now for the bad. The plot, it's good but way too much back story, I wanted aliens and predators only. There is also way too many errors in some of the film plot holes. The best example of this is when a scientist unravels the mystery of the hieroglyphics and the why and how the aliens are there. This does however lead into an incredible flashback scene atop a pyramid that absolutely kicked ass. Also the fight scenes are hard to follow, too many close ups and spiraling falls. There is also another of those outrun sequences that both me and the Horrorist cannot stand, you know where a human outruns the speed of sound or nuclear explosion somehow. The film also takes forever to get started and once the action starts there is only about ten minutes left in the movie, just a damn shame.

Maybe I'm being harsh because I wanted this one to be good, no, I needed it to be good, but it's not. I even won free tickets to this film and took a fellow member of this site with me to enjoy it before our adventure to HorrorFind Weekend, but even that didn't help. I know I'll end up buying this on DVD just to have it in the collection of two of my favorite monsters, but both the aliens and the predator deserved better than this, much better.

3 out of 10

(2004) Paul WS Anderson

Sanaa Lathan .... Alexa Woods
Raoul Bova .... Sebastian de Rosa
Lance Henriksen .... Charles Bishop Weyland
Ewen Bremner .... Graeme Miller
Colin Salmon .... Maxwell Stafford
Tommy Flanagan .... Mark Verheiden
Joseph Rye .... Joe Connors
Agathe De La Boulaye .... Adele Rousseau
Carsten Norgaard .... Rusten Quinn
Sam Troughton .... Thomas Parks
Petr Jákl .... Stone
Pavel Bezdek .... Bass
Kieran Bew .... Klaus
Carsten Voigt .... Mikkel
Jan Pavel Filipensky .... Boris

Also known as
AvP
Alien Predator
Mutant 2
Mutant II
The Falling

Well, I wasn't as peeved as Prime, but I wasn't amazed either. It was a good (but a little slow) flick up to about halfway, then a couple minutes later it ended. Just got started, then before you know it, the credits are rolling and I'm pissed because of the few but very large plot holes that gave me a serious What the fuck.

The little things like outrunning explosions and 40 foot aliens are bad enough, but the real problem is that when the movie got to the good part, it ended within minutes. There was some excellent action, great monsters and a decent storyline and the ending was really cool.

My rating might seem too generous after complaining, but remember that when a movie is hyped, expectations are raised. This flick would have been better without the hype. My rating reflects how good it is in comparison, and whether or not I'll buy the DVD.

6 out of 10 flying vaginas

I didn't care if I saw this or not (although I like both series, the title made me flashback to the incredibly bad "Freddy vs Jason") and, as I watch very little television, I had managed to avoid the hype. Lucky me, because I wound up quite enjoying this film. If you can stand the complete ludicrousness of a ship being able to cut through ice that suddenly becomes 2,000 feet thick, then it's not too bad.

The action actually begins 40 minutes from the end, and doesn't let up until the credits roll. Yes, it still takes too long to get to the good stuff, but don't be misled by the half-hour of creature battles and exploding face-huggers that Prime apparently missed while he was in the can; there's some good stuff here (including one really tense scene when two people, who are trying to evade a Predator, run across a floor that happens to be rising - fast).

I was quite pleasantly surprised by an unexpected pairing in the film as well; I thought it was both plausable and creative. Additionally, the effects, as the Primester noted, are incredible.

Yes, the ending is a piece of overused crap and it takes too long to get going, but AvP gets a solid 6 out of 10 painful Warrior Markings.