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2004
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The iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever battle each other on Earth in ALIEN VS. PREDATOR. The discovery of an ancient pyramid buried under the Antarctic ice sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There, they make an even more terrifying discovery: two alien races at war. No matter who wins...we lose. An incredible and horrific adventure begins when billionaire industrialist Charles Bishop Weyland gathers an international team of archaeologists, scientists and security experts, led by environmentalist and adventurer Alexa Lex Woods, to investigate a mysterious heat bloom emanating from deep under Antarctica.What they witness 2000 feet below the frozen surface at first excites, and then terrifies them. They discover a pyramid bearing a mixture of Aztec, Egyptian and Cambodian cultures. Inside the pyramid they find a matrix of chambers so technologically advanced that it becomes obvious that an extraterrestrial influence has been at work there for thousands of years. The chamber walls reconfigure unexpectedly, trapping members of the team and cutting them off from their colleagues.Moving from chamber to chamber, the horrific truth finally reveals itself: Predators have been keeping alive a captive Alien Queen who lays eggs at 100 year intervals. Young Predators warriors are tested by fighting the Alien offspring. The team has stumbled into the middle of an incredible rite of passage and a war between Aliens and Predators.
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© 2004 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
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Lew Irwin
Critics finally got a look at Alien Vs. Predator Friday, after 20th Century Fox opened the movie without showing it to them first. Surprisingly, their reaction was not as devastating as the studio undoubtedly expected. Peter Howell in the Toronto Star called it more of a squandered opportunity than an outright failure. The film turns out to be no worse than most mindless summer action films, and even has some solid formal qualities thanks to the director, Paul W. S. Anderson, wrote the New York Times' Dave Kehr. Bruce Westbrook in the Houston Chronicle gives it a rave review. Fans of each monster brand will have plenty to cheer, he commented. Ty Burr in the Boston Globe remarked that viewers are likely to have a good, cheesy time. 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. But several critics seized on the tag line of the movie, Whoever wins, we lose, to label it truth in advertising. Any member of the human race who buys a ticket to Alien vs. Predator ends up losing, A.P. critic David Germain concluded. And Gary Dowell in the Dallas Morning News damned it as uninspired, derivative filmmaking; a self-purging entity puking itself up over and over again.
Reviewed by: cmario on 7/21/2010 3:30:47 PM
Lew Irwin
Critics finally got a look at Alien Vs. Predator Friday, after 20th Century Fox opened the movie without showing it to them first. Surprisingly, their reaction was not as devastating as the studio undoubtedly expected. Peter Howell in the Toronto Star called it more of a squandered opportunity than an outright failure. The film turns out to be no worse than most mindless summer action films, and even has some solid formal qualities thanks to the director, Paul W. S. Anderson, wrote the New York Times' Dave Kehr. Bruce Westbrook in the Houston Chronicle gives it a rave review. Fans of each monster brand will have plenty to cheer, he commented. Ty Burr in the Boston Globe remarked that viewers are likely to have a good, cheesy time. 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. But several critics seized on the tag line of the movie, Whoever wins, we lose, to label it truth in advertising. Any member of the human race who buys a ticket to Alien vs. Predator ends up losing, A.P. critic David Germain concluded. And Gary Dowell in the Dallas Morning News damned it as uninspired, derivative filmmaking; a self-purging entity puking itself up over and over again.
Reviewed by: cmario on 7/21/2010 3:30:47 PM
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Reviewed by: cmario on 7/21/2010 3:30:47 PM
Reviewed by: quintusIX on 5/7/2008 11:08:43 PM
back off andie...fx and action, in and of themselves...are powerful attractants, even in lieu of any serious emotional play or an engaging plotline...they've been the heart and guts of every (successful) movie lucas ever made...the characters comic cutouts, the emotional and philosophical lading of them utterly jejune...and you loved them all...for those two explicit and virtually exclusive reasons...the reason you feel unable to account for my tastes is no mystery...you are not at the beginning of ready to do so.
Reviewed by: newandrew on 2/25/2008 7:06:29 PM
Well, there's no accounting for taste.This movie is terrible..."fx and action" don't mean beans when there's no emotional commitment from us, the viewers.That's what video games are for.
Reviewed by: eccedaxdux on 5/25/2007 2:05:58 PM
well, now that i think of it, i have NEVER found the characters interesting, excepting only the originals of a1 and weaver in the sequels.henriksen is retrieved as a participant for this synthesis, but has little to do.the lead is weak and writing is not much stronger...which leaves only fx and action, both of which i liked enough to purchase this thng.
Reviewed by: ddavismedicalart on 3/11/2007 10:39:54 AM
Good movie. Probably best for loyal Alien and Predator fans. There are obvious limitations on a title such as this, but I thought it was a good job of blending the two films. Its believable. Some fantastic action scenes. The pyramid is good and creepy. The characters teeter on thin, but theres enough meat to hold you in there. The character of the young lady who leads the team annoyed me a bit at first, but I eventually she gets into gear. Toward the end, I actually found her rather sexy tough. Hmm.
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