Review of AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004) by Johnny T — 20 Nov 2011

The speacial effects and the action are mind-blowing. Anderson keeps the pace of the film running well and it never feels like your waiting to see something exciting. A jolting, stylish, hard-core and exhilerating thrill-ride. This is one schlockfest that may be enjoyed more by casual viewers than by hard-core fans, since writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson breaks with the established mythology of both properties whenever he feels like it. Like it matters. Surprisingly free of gore, unlike its predecessors. Between the Predators' dripping their glow-in-the-dark green blood and the Aliens' getting their rubber cement mucous all over everything, this is certainly a very sticky movie, though not, ultimately, a very frightening or commanding one. Overall you have a neat enough movie with some impressive sequences.

VERDICT: "Matinée" - (Mixed reaction). These kinds of movies are usually movies that had some good things, but some bad things kept it from being amazing. This rating says to pay matinée prices to see at a theatre or buy an ex-rental or a cheap price of the DVD to own. Mildly Recommended.