& 2 for that matter...

Yes -- and everyone knows that you can't go wrong with a third...

Well, here's my review of AVP, for those who care:

First off, the good: there's no Sigourney Weaver. Her story ended in Alien 3, and Alien: Resurrection proved that she should have been left dead. Well, thankfully, AVP doesn't throw together some bullshit story in an attempt to bring her back.

The battles between the aliens and Predators, while brief, and few and far between, are insane. Well, for the most part. When the final battle with the queen comes along I kind of thought I was watching the jeep chase from Jurassic Park, sans jeep and nowhere near as good.

The characters are a lot like Alien 3: they're mostly filler, you don't really get a chance to get to know them or like them. Which is a shame, cause I really wanted to like some of them. Ewan Bremner has always been and, I'm sure, will always be one of my favorite actors (he brings a weird off-beat thing to his characters) but here he was just more body count.

And what the hell was up with him and the climber guy? They're trapped for ten seconds and already they start the 'we can't give up' talk. Jesus Christ.

And, as SyCo said, I doubt the chestbursters are quite THAT fast (another example of one of my favorite characters being killed off way too soon, Rousseu). Which brings me to another negative: the blood.

The chest burster scene in Alien is one of the most brutal scenes of any movie I have ever seen, and remains one of my favorites to this day. Yet here, all we hear is some screaming and crunching. That's it. OFF CAMERA. The only real blood comes from a slash off camera.

Key phrase: OFF CAMERA.

Me, I'm an alien man. They are the coolest creatures in creation, hands down. But iAVP suffers from the same problems as Freddy Vs. Jason: they want you to like one character. I didn't want to like Jason, I wanted to root for Freddy! I had waited years for FVJ and they basically tell me how I'm supposed to feel. Well, same with AVP. When those suckers killed the first two predators, I cheered (as did a couple of other people in the theator, which makes you wonder when there are only six people in the theator and they're all rooting for the aliens. . .).

In the end, I look at this the same way I do Resident Evil. I don't watch it as Alien Vs. Predator, I watch it as a sci-fi action flick. While flawed (majorly) I still like this one (mostly because of the non-human characters).

***1/2 out of **** (what can I say, I love seeing aliens and predators beating the living shit out of each other).

Just saw this to day, and to be honest it was okay. Partially ruined by a group of sniggering nerds behind me but I was really hoping for something better. As freak said the favourite and best characters are killed off way too quickly Miller, Rosseau and Quinn were among my favourites and were killed way too quickly.

Then again so was Bill Paxton's character in Aliens. But this has gone on to inspire me to write my own much better version. Also check-out the Peter Briggs draft on the site, it's pretty good. Altho not formatted very well.

Every fanboy's wet dream turns into his worst nightmare.  Easily one of the worst films I have seen in a long time.  There was nothing I liked about the movie.  Yeah, it was nice to see the aliens and Predators back on the screen, but there was so much potential that was thrown away.  The only good thing I liked was a line when Lex, or whatever her name is, asks the gun-toting blonde chick why she's taking a gun.  The reply:  "Same principal as a condom.  I'd rather have one and not need it, then need it and not have one."  Yeah, I can relate to that. LOL  If Anderson, or Fox, would have cared about what the fans wanted to see, they could have made a pretty good movie, but instead we get what hit the theaters, a waste of time and money.  I left the theater and the first thing I asked the manager (good friend of mine) was if I could have my money back.  Total waste of film. >

This is one film both fanboys and non fans hated.
Paul WS Anderson is a hack, through and through.

Watched it.  Woulda been kinda enjoyable if they weren't trashing two of my favorite franchises.  Needed gore.  Needed good acting.  Needed good story.  Needed Aliens and Predators that looked like Aliens and Predators rather than CGI and and a bunch of dicks in bad costumes.  

As a sci-fi action flick, it was alright.  

Blashphemy - just kidding.
The problem with Anderson's version was it was simply too short and at times it seems he's more concerned with the gadgets then the characters.

I saw this a while back with my sibs. 2

2 of my sibs went to watch cellular or watever, and me and my older bro went to watch this piece of shit. I regret watching this lame movie, and wud rather watch the other 1. Wen it was time 4 our movie, we were the only one's in there. How embarrassing, but it was fun. I thot there was gonna be plenty of action, but there wasnt. It was actually kind of dumb, but o well.

I rate this **1/2 out of 5