I had been waiting for this movie with no small amount of excitement, as those who know me will have noticed. I am a really big fan of both of the seperate series, and for all its very obviouss flaws I still thought that the last AvP movie was pretty fun. Surely, I thought, if an aliens and predator movie with as many things wrong with it as AvP can be enjoyable then they just cannot miss....
Oh how naive and wrong I was. AVPR is RUBBISH!
I was intending to write a review of it now, but I'm just not sure I can bring myself to. When I say its rubbish I don't mean in a 'worst film ever made' sense, as I always say anyone who says that about any big hollywood movie just hasn't seen enough of the truely god awful films that are out there. And even for these sort of movies there are worse. Its not for example as bad as Rise of the Silver Surfer, the most awful film I saw last year.
Ok I'm just avoiding the topic now, must try and say something about AVPR... well the title is rubbish for starters...
What I don't understand is how they can take two sets of such well established and interesting mythology and just make it so mind numbingly dull. I did not care at all about even one of the human characters, in fact I almost found myself wishing none of them had survived. The film isn't logical for too many reasons for me to even bother going into. The film makers seem to have decided to try and up the ante in terms of both gore and shock moments, but to the point where I could hear people around me in the cinema echoing my thoughts of 'surely not...' and they have done it in such a cynical way to appeal to a certain audience that I'm sure would rather go and watch Saw. Theres so many things wrong with this film that I'm just going to give up...
No not quite, what the hell were they thinking with that 'surprise' ending, to show something like that in a throwaway way at the end of such an awful movie, argh!
Ok I'm done *fumes quietly*
Don't go and see it, just don't
Don't watch it on TV
Just don't see it.... ever
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