This was entertaining? How? If you like seeing characters trying hard to act like a bad-ass, but only come off annoying, than by all means keep enjoying it. What action? The movie is so dark you can't even see a thing. Furthermore, the fights only involve Alien run towards the Predator, then getting slaughter by 1 of many Predator weapon. The Grid VS Celtic fight and Queen VS Scar fight are so much better than the fights in AVP-R.
Merciless Alien? We don't even get to see them in action, all they contributed in the film is to fill up the film's title, and to serve as props to make the predator look cool. The Aliens in this film don't even hide in shadow or stuff to attack their victim, they just simply run to them and get killed by the predator who seems to follow the heroes everywhere.
Story? What Story? The predator spaceship crash landed, several aliens escaped and turn some people into aliens. The Predator then comes and kill the Aliens, and then we have hero running around the city just to escape death. If this was considered a good story, then Cinderella is a masterpiece to you. The actors' acting were decent? Half of the time the characters just trying to act bad-ass. They weren;t believable either. e.g. Jesse had no problem seeing people die from the Alien, but suddenly the moment before she died, she suddenly scream and run away to get killed by the Alien. Jesse's Ex, just stood there like he's farting or something, then getting pinned down. Why didn't he run away with the hero earlier?
You want flaws, I'll give you a flaw, this film is too dark. Sure you can turn the brightness up, but if you were watching it in the theatre (like how I did), then you'll be really pist that you spent your money seeing a black screen with sound of grunt. The film did not make the Aliens look threatening at all.
The flaws that you mentioned contribute to something. I personally don't care about the kid dying, and I agree it's stupid that people complain that the kid died (get over it).
The reason why people is annoyed that this take place on Earth is because most of the AVP viewers are fans of the Alien's series. If you have watched the Alien's seires, the main character do everything she can to stop the transportation of the Aliens to Earth, but AVP and AVP-R kinda ignore this by making that the ALien has been on Earth all this time. Furtehrmore, another problem is that because the fact that this take place on Earth, we would have the stupid nuke ending.
The reason why most of us hate that only 1 predator was sent is because of what exactly how the film played out. The film is about AVP, therefore, there's obviously have to atleast have 1 predator lasting till the end. Therefore, we don't actually get to see a predator die or killed by the aliens if there's only 1 predator. That's exactly how AVP-R played out, we only had 1 predator, and we don't even see an Alien killing a Predator at all, which make them look ultimately weak and predictable.
The nuking is stupid because it's simply a bad way to end the film. It's like the the director did so much but then ran out of ideas on how to get rid of them, so then they decide oh well lets just nuke the down, because all American movie have to have Explosion!!! The main problem with the nuking is that it's uncreative and it kinda make it seems like too easy (ok so that's all it takes, nuking).
why did they nuke them, why oh why etc... which are all plain silly and make perfect sense if you take at least a few seconds to think about.
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slazev
11 years ago
I agree the story isn't great, but when you describe it like that then the previous films don't have one either.
First alien movie is just a monster in a ship. Hell breaks loose.
Second alien movie: an army group goes to investigate a planet and falls in a trap. Hell breaks loose.
So on and so on...
And by the way, Predators do die in this movie. It's in the beginning, which makes the ship crash-land.
This sounds like I'm defending the movie too much. I gave it a 5/10. It was entertaining.
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