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AVP - Actually Very Pants

Advantages: Errrrrrrr.............
Disadvantages: Where do I begin?

NO, no, no, no, NO, no, NOOOOO!!! I could really end the review there, but how would that be helpful to you? Answer? It wouldn't. It might give you an indication of my frustration, but not in terms of why. Let me explain. Take Alien, and Aliens, and Alien 3, and even to a certain extent the fourth Alien film. They all had one common appealing factor: the Alien, right? Right! Take Predator. Okay, not so much Predator 2. It wasn't Danny Glover's ...
...Let's combine the two legendary sci-fi alien villains, and make a film, pit them against each other, and call it AVP (Alien vs Predator). Okay, so I thought this was a great idea, and watched it, all the way through, and hated the fact that they tried to build this around a bit of a plot, focusing on the people instead of the two 80s action aliens. What with public agreement that it wasn't targeted properly, you'd think that they would make a bit ...

pmcds 05.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem (DVD)

Eulogy for a Franchise

Advantages: A single amusing line.
Disadvantages: An absence of suspense, huge plot holes, wooden acting, dodgy effects and shoddy direction.

...local townspeople. The cargo of Aliens escapes and kills their captors before going on a rampage through the sleepy backwater. It's up to a single Predator to seek and destroy the Aliens and the monstrous Alien/Predator hybrid. Meanwhile the locals have to fight for their survival as a battle from beyond the stars lands right on their doorstep. Co-directors the Brothers Strause are apparently special effects gurus, though you wouldn't know from ...
...effects-heavy opening that shows the Aliens causing havoc on the Predator's ship. It's a hollow start because you can't empathise with either group, as they are just killing machines. And we see all the main effects straight away, so there are no surprises. We don't get to know any of the first human victims. There's no emotional bond to them so it doesn't affect you when they die, regardless of whether they're young or old, male, female or even ...

afy9mab 31.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem (DVD)

A v P? OMG!

Advantages: its quite short
Disadvantages: AWFUL FILM

I am as big (or bigger) sci-fi/horror geek as the next person, but this film is truely dire!! From the terrible acting, to the impossible to follow and basically lazy, non-existant story line, it really is 86 minutes of your life you will never get back again, and you will grudge every one of those loooong minutes. The first AvP was admitedly pretty bad, but at least it was slightly enjoyable fluff. There are no real redeeming features here. It ...
...no interest in the characters, who are so one dimensional they could be made of cardboard. The only feeling I got when they were randomly mutilated and killed was "oh was that her from the cafe? or her from other place, oh god who cares!" One scene in particular at the hospital is frankly revolting and quite unneccessary. The film is just one cliche after another. Alien and Predator hybrid (could have been a great idea) crashes on Earth with a ...

mycatis 29.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem (DVD)

AVP - poor acting but great horror

Advantages: many, fantastic extras, deleted scenes, plot and special effects
Disadvantages: poor acting

...As a fan of both alien and predator I had high hopes on going to watch the first avp at cinema and was a little dissapointed - Avp - From director Paul WS Anderson's comes an inspired melt of two sci-fi horrors alien and predator. An expedition heads for Antarctica after billionaire Lance Henriksen discovers a pyramid under the ice. They trigger the pyramid which then reconfigures every ten minutes and with aliens trying to eat them and predator ...
...- A Predator has an alien burst out of it and then it crash lands on Earth in smallville mid America. For some reason only one Predator leaves its home world to go to Earth to take on the Aliens. Hmm - thats it - the entire plot. Again with the non-existant acting . But hey I still love it - blood and gore and a new predalien. Even with their downfalls hardcore predator and alien fans will simply love them. I can't see another one on the horizon ...

Treacle1983 15.08.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Alien Vs Predator/Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem (Box Set) (DVD)

Sometimes, Ignorance is bliss

Advantages: clever thriller, good story, well acted
Disadvantages: bit depressing?

Dont misunderstand my review title, this is a cracking film. You can nearly always say that about Nicolas Cage films, but this one really is! The premise is simple. There are many disasters happening on earth, for some reason, aliens decide to warn mankind about the upcoming disasters by "whispering" them to a little girl in the 1950's. Unfortuneately, that girl does nothing with the information other than write it down on a bit of paper and allow ...
...capsule. The capsule is dug up in the current day and discovered by Nicolas Cage's character. He soon discovers the code in the series of numbers written on the page and works out that the code tells of impending disasters, when they will happen, how many will die and the location. The story continues on along this path, with a worrying fortelling of the end of days. We don't know what will happen right until the end. I wont ruin it for you either, ...

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