The 2nd half is actually a good actioner as the Aliens & Predators take on each other, but it cannot overcome the 1st half setup, which is exceptionally awkward and inexplicably self-defeating on nearly every level.

Was this too a joke-a-mentary made by Michael Moore? Talk about bad...

Thank you, Mr. Anderson, for taking a dump on two great movie villains and calling it a movie. I don't think an "R" rating would have made this any better.

The three goes to Lance and some of the technicians on the film. After all, the sound guys and gaffers deserve credit too. As for the rest of the movie. Well I went in with low expectations as far as strory quality were concerned. As soon as I heard that it was set in our times I was dissapointed but still hoping for some kind of pure mind fodder. By the end it hurt. Why not for example, just burrow the original Predator custume that Stan Winston made more than a decade ago. At least that one looked good. This Predators face looked like a cross between the original and the Joker's forced smile in Tim Burton's Batman. While they were at it they should have borrowed Winston's Queen Alien as well. I never though that the day would come when one of these movies actually made Alien:Resurection look good by comparison.… Expand

The choice of director was a major setback for this film, and I was expecting absolute crap. Thankfully it *marginally* exceeded my expectations. Little horror or real tension is to be found and the atmosphere is dissapointingly scant. It takes itself a bit too seriously considering the context of the plot and characters, and it contains many a scene that lead to laughter instead of the desired shock etc. In fact near the end, a plot twist of sorts (ie. the "aliance" for those who have seen it) was absurdly ridiculous. Not unjustifiable with regards to the mythos, just that it was embarassing to watch. More explicitly (without spoiling anything), I DID NOT appreciate the attempt to humanize the predators. I Found the movie was tied too closely to our reality. Where's the Giger style Gothic alien environments? or the sense of being enveloped in something completely "alien"? -which certainly should be the case if what we're dealing with is some sort of obscure alien hunting ritual. Plot wise it succeded were it needed to by linking the two species together; but who cares seeings as the previous movies where all about tension, fear and that which we dont (and can't) comprehend. Blah. It never had a chance of living up to the Alien legacy -that's a given- but from a Predator stand point, if nothing else the dialogue should have been a bit wittier and delivered with more conviction (ie in the "I don't have time to bleed" sort of way). So my end recommendation is to not see it in the theater unless you like to roll up $20 bills and smoke em. Inform yourself about the director and make sure your expectations are adequately low. Go in expecting a comic book style sci-fi action movie with much cheese and unintentional laughs. Then *maybe* you (and by 'you' I mean males in their teens and above) will be MILDLY pleased with the movie. Which was the case with me.… Expand

This movie was not very good. The story, crap, the FX, crap, and the camra angeles, crap. But I liked it. And it was cool to see aliens and preditores kill each other. They should have just abandon the story and just have aliens and preditores beating the living s... out of each other.

Great special effects can hardly make up for the poor acting and cheap philosophy the film constantly potrays.

Horrid, godawful, a wasteful pile of trash for anyone who actually has any knowledge of the Alien or Predator franchises. From the Predator's killing of unworthy defenseless targets to the worst CG-Aliens I've ever seen, this movie HAD six different kinds of potential, and pathetically failed on all of them. Come to see the two under 10-second poorly shot snippets of AvP action; stay to be disgusted by the "kissing scene" between human and Predator. Anyone who enjoys this movie either has tremendously low standards, or loved it simply because it had the iconic superbeasts; to me it will go down as a mind-numbingly awful tribute to what might and should have been.… Expand

It had potential, but failed miserably to capitalize. The action scenes were shot too close to make them exciting. Most of the actual AVP action was shots of the predator running away while the queen followed. They should have either made it an all-out action fest, or went camp like Freddy v. Jason. They did neither. Instead, they tried to make a tense suspens-drama but failed to add any character development, personality, or anything resembling a plot. Rent Kill Bill instead.… Expand

Ever left a movie asking yourself, "Now what the hell was THAT all about?" That's the feeling I had at the end of AVP. In vain did I try to find any redeeming value with this dreck. Stupid ideas. Bad directing. Forgettable dialogue and characters. Dark sets that leave the viewer wonder what's going on half the time. AVP is based on a stupid premise even a competent director couldn't save and only a pseudo scientist like Erik Van Daniken could love. It's bad enough the idea for the movie was stupid to begin with, but then we are tortured with director/writer Paul W.S. Anderson's terrible directing for an hour and forty minutes. Franchise fans looking for a good smack down between the two iconic sci-fi monsters will be sorely disappointed. Thanks to the dark sets of the movie and Anderson's bad direction it's really difficult to see, much less care, what is going one when the Aliens and Predators do finally fight it out. I haven't been this disappointed in a monster smack down on film since I saw "Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman." In that monster smack down Frankenstein and the Wolfman get into a fight that doesn't even get a minute of screen time, and then they are promptly washed away by an exploding dam. At least the viewer can SEE that fight. One other thing about AVP I couldn't help but notice. Most of the movie takes place on and underneath the frozen ice of Antarctica and yet I don't recall ever seeing the breath of one of the actors. I watched AVP with a mounting sense of gloom, realizing I was seeing what will be a punch line for bad movies for decades to come. As the Predator's ship made its getaway from Earth, with absolutely no impact on the audience in attendance at the screening I attended, I wanted to start a chant of "Golden Raspberry! Golden Raspberry! Golden Raspberry!". AVP will definitely make a lot of "worst movie" of the year lists for 2004. … Expand

If i was to rate this movie on an absolute scale (not comparing to any other movie), I would give it a 3. Compared to other movies, I would have to give it a 1, only because there have been worse. I'm trying to think of something good to say about it, but nothing comes to mind. Well, maybe the first scene when she gets to the top of the ice climb.

Obviously filmed to get the cash to film the movie that this one should have been. Too short too cover the topic effectively and too contrived for anyone to care.

It was horrible,total waste of my precious time. Don't see.

My advice is to give this a miss and wait for the DVD. Paul Anderson has stated that this is a horrible movie because all the best bits were cut out. The studio changed their requirement to a PG-13 only 3 WEEKS before the release date and as such the entire flow of the script was disrupted. The DVD will have the Director's Cut and this will explain away the inconsistencies, the failings in the story and all the deaths will happen ON-SCREEN! Whatever you do though, don't go to see this and then bitch about Paul Anderson being the wrong choice of director, it isn't his film at the theatres and the guy tried his hardest to make a film for the fans. Give him a break.… Expand

This movie was a slap in the face of the Alien and Predator franchises. Even for action films, those orginal movies had some semblance of personality built into them. This movie was just a poor excuse to throw some guys in some cool looking rubber suits. Why waste our time and money with this garbage? Halloween is just around the corner.

Imagine a film with no original ideas of any kind. Yet still gets nothing right. Woeful dialogue, terrible acting, worse direction- whoever wins, the viewing public lose.

Sigourney Weaver refused point blank to participate in this film stating that it "Devalued the franchise." We really should have listened. Those looking for an interesting plot that would satisfy the ending to both Predator 2 and Alien: Ressurection (both pretty disappointing) had better stay away. Those looking for fan-boy style guts, gore, slime and the horrendously constant "Whoever wins, we lose" theme, this is your movie. Only view on pain of death.… Expand

Simply an insult to all AvP fans...

Way to wreck the franchises Paul W Anderson. You Suck!!!!! Every movie you Direct sucks!!!!

Story REALLY sucked. Could not have possibly made less sense. The fights were kinda interesting to watch, but they're only a few and they take about 10 min to watch. Special features suck as well. Bottom line Don't listen to the people who gave this a 10 and If you see Anderson, tell him he ruined what could have been a good action movie.

This movie was horrible. Paul W.S. Anderson is now the 2nd worst director in the buisness. Uwe Boll being first. Now, this movie would have been awesome if it wasn't PG-13. There was no a single 'Aliens', or 'Predator' movie that was Rated unter R. The whole series was rated R. Than come they come up with this crap? Idiot. That is the only word I can say. An absolute Idiot.… Expand

This movie proves a collosal misfire. The dreadful premise is enough to make you claw your own eyes out, but what's worse is the riduiculous rasta-looking characters that parade around the set with surreal motives and an incredibly silly disposition.

This is by far the worst Alien or Predator movie. The action is so like WWE that you're better off watching wrestling at home. And since when did the Alien Queen get to move that rapidly? We didnt see that in Aliens where the Queen was more realistic I would say. I stiil cant believe how bad this movie is...dont ever watch this. Anywhere anytime.

This movie was just crap. They made so many mistakes before it was even filmed: 1) Crappy script with a stupid story about predators (who are attracted to warm weather) hunting in Antarctica. 2) A crappy director who is actually world renown for making crappy films. 3) They made it PG-13. I went and saw it opening night just because I have so much respect for the Alien and Predator movies, but this movie didn… Expand

I saw Alien Vs. Predator and had ambivalent feelings about it. It definitely could have been a lot better, had better actors, better script, better reason and logic, and better atmosphere. It also could have been much worse than it was as well. What is does have going for it to some small degree is that the film was directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, a competent suspense, science fiction director accustomed to working with this kind of material. Anderson gives the audience what he thinks they want to see, and going by the money his movies make he doesn't fall far off the mark most of the time. For me(being someone I gratefully acknowledge as being outside the majority of the movie-going population) he disappoints with his cliché-ridden dialog, tissue-thin, stereotypical characters and plot threads, his over-used CGI effects, and his general arrogance to presume how little the movie-going population knows. Notwithstanding all of that, Alien Vs. Predator has some special moments. What did I like: some of the sets were impressive, a couple of the fights were well-executed, Lance Henriksen (being the only "real" actor in the film, and the Artic setting surrounding this hidden pyramid). I haven't gone into any detail of the plot for two reasons: (1)many other reviewers have already done so and (2)the plot is so ridiculous that any real scrutiny would be more enlightening than anything that happened in the film. Is ALien Vs. Predator entertaining? Yes, it is - like many accidents are. It has just enough going for it to keep the viewer engaged but never really satisfied.… Expand

Tripe anyone? P.Anderson is one of the worst directors in Hollywood. This film is an sad stain on both the Alien and Predator series. Enjoyable until the films dissolves into a terrible mess. Hall of Turkey class!

I wasn't expecting much from this film which is just as well. I'm a big fan of both Alien and Predator, but this film crucified both. The time-line for the events is chronically bad and for fans of either film it doesn't add up as well as it should, and 90% of the film takes place over the course of about 3 hours, it's pathetic. There are so many flaws to the script and plot it's quite often upsetting. Anderson has made a mockery of two classic Sci-Fi films and it's extremely unfair to the paying public. BAN HIS WORK IN FUTURE!!… Expand

Movies like this are great for action and fight scenes. Unfortunately, Paul WS Anderson is an appalling action director. Not only are the characters 1 dimensional, not only does it take over 45 minutes for anything to happen, but worst of all, the fight scenes are limp and ultimately lame...no, AVP isn't supposed to be high art, but even as low brow entertainment it fails.

Silly Hollywood McSci-fi romp which adds nothing to the legends or the fear of either races. Cheese extreme which though not as good as any of the previous movies, isn't quite as horrible as I was expecting.

More Paul Anderson crap. Why 20th Century Fox would willingly destroy their Alien franchise is beyond belief.

Ha ha...let's look at some other "gems" that were not screened for critics ahead of time: Gigli From Justin to Kelly Howard the Duck In The Army Now Clean Slate Hudson Hawk Starting to see a trend here?...

[***SPOILERS***] Usually when you have to wait twelve years to get something, a gift per se, you should expect something good. Let?s say you are seventeen and you?ve been asking your parents to get you a pony since you were five, and then they finally do. A month after you get the pretty pony that you?ve been wishing to have all your life, the old thing croaks. Your parents did something cheap. They bought an inexpensive pony at the end of its life from a farmer that was about to put it down but found capitalistic refuge by selling the horse to your parents. That is what has happened with ?Alien vs. Predator?. The predators used to rule Earth as Gods and taught the Aztecs, Egyptians, Mayans, Cambodians, and everybody else how to build pyramids. They would return every 100 years to have a game hunt against aliens that I suppose they bring down to Earth, incubate inside sacrificing humans, burst out of the chest of the humans and are hunted by the predators. But one time, the predators couldn?t take the aliens, and blew up their entire Antarctic kingdom. The raging battle disposes of every single human in the temple in violent but quick-cutting and gore-free fashions. Of the human characters, not one possesses an ounce of charisma or a line of memorable dialogue. The characters don?t have any conversation or arc; they just spew exposition as we tediously wait for the aliens or predators to get to them. The character that survives the whole thing is a non-WASP female who forms an alliance with a predator as they take on more aliens in some really ridiculous looking images. Paul W.S. Anderson script lacks enticing and inspired scenes. Despite the earth-bound nature of the film, Anderson doesn?t explore these possibilities. There has also been a decade of video games ranging from three generations of game play involving the aliens and predators, but nothing interesting but overdone visual effects have been inspired from that region. And the film is so half-assed in its violence it is sickening. An ?Alien vs. Predator? film should not be rated PG-13. The film has a lot of on-screen death but none of which is scary in the least bit. Then there is the use of special effects in the film. ?Alien? was scary because you barely ever see the creeping beast for more than a few frames until the end. We are scared of what we don?t see, and sometime what we do see. But Anderson seems uninterested in scary his audience, nor really exciting them either. He just wants lots of shots of the predators and aliens doing things. There is one interesting visual effect in the movie, however. And it is used in a montage exposition of the predators? time on Earth: A great image of hundreds of aliens leaping to the top of a temple with only several predators defending it. That?s about it. Anyway, maybe I should get to the top of the movie. A dozen science experts plus a few faceless cronies are summoned to check out a heat spot in Antarctica, and will be paid for by Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen from ?Aliens?). Involved in this idiotic adventure are Alexa Woods (Sanaa Lathan), an ice climbing expert who stays on board for the safety of everyone else. Sebastian de Rosa (Raoul Bova), an Italian archeologist who while reading what he thinks is Egyptian, discovers that the rotation of the thousands-year old temple is in metric time. Could such an educated scientist not know that metric system was invented by Napoleon? All of the other characters fail to even achieve ?cardboard cut-out?, and are relegate to a level below the splendor of effects-driven death and an excuse to showcase the weapons of the predators and aliens. I thought as the movie progressed there were be a connection made between Lance Henriksen?s Bishop character, and how he becomes an android in the ?Alien? movies. But nope, he?s just another disposable character in this film. To have to wait twelve years for something that should be spectacular and fun and receive a boring monster mash such as this outdoes disappointment. It is a headache, panache of mishmash and an incumbency of in competencies; it?s the worst film of its kind. But if there is anything good that has come out of it, it has inspired me to make a better ?Alien vs. Predator? movie. I shall use only existing material, footage from all six other movies, three generations of video games, hundreds of comic books, Peter Briggs script which will be acted out by alien and predator toys, I shall make a movie that I can at least call better than Paul W.S. Anderson?s monstrous assault on the eyes, ears, and taste. … Expand

Wow they killed two movie franchises with one stone! Congrats at this amazing feat. Story, acting, script, and stupid lines like "im not the only one with sattelites over antartica" put both these great movie monsters in the grave. The rocket ride out of the ice was priceless!!!

Way to kill the franchises, Anderson.

How this movie ever got approval to be made and released I'll never know.

Wow! I came in with low expectations and AVP still managed to disappoint! The biggest problem with this movie -- and this movie has ALOT of problems -- is that it tries to satisfy everyone and fails to satisfy anyone. Critics demand a coherent story and character development, so AVP delivers some half-ass plotline involving Antarctica, ancient temples, a Predator hunt, an Alien Queen stuck in ice, CEOs who need to take stock of their lives, and other assorted mind garbage. Sci-fi fans demand to see the Aliens and Predators whacking away at each other using the full glory of modern computer graphics, but AVP offers sluggish hand to hand combat in dimly-lit hallways that allow us to see practically nothing. My God, what was the director thinking? Critics are never going to embrace either the Alien or Predator series, or even take them seriously, so why even bother with plot? If Paul Anderson simply had 2 hours of aliens hacking and slashing away at each other, I would have been at least mildly satisfied. Instead we get 1 hour of idiotic setup and 45 minutes of uninspired special effects. Sheesh. Where's James Cameron when you need him?… Expand

Maybe not the worst movie I've ever seen, but it pissed me off more than any other movie. I'm too emotionally attached to both series to simply dismiss this as a bad movie, and not a personal affront. Paul Anderson succeeds in making a sequel (prequel? nonquel?) that doesn't just fail to add to the series, but literally takes away from it!!

Ha ha! Any movie with that much pre-release buzz is bound to suck! Everybody knows that by now right?.....Right?

The effects were ok but that wasnt enough to save the movie, i do have to say that it wasnt the worst movie I have seen but it was a far cry from the best.

Pros: might supply aliens-nerds with a couple thrills. cons: sloppy screenplay, stupid ending, story makes no damn sense my thoughts: only watch this for the laughs you get from its stupidness.

An okay movie, if all you really want to see is an action fest where there's never any scary or suspenseful action (hence the PG-13 rating). Unfortunately, this isn't anything like the 1986 "Aliens" with Predators thrown into the mix. More like a crappy teen slasher with a sci-fi backstory. It could've been more. What made James Cameron's "Aliens" work so well was that it gave its characters a fighting chance from beginning to end in plot a that kept you on the edge of your seat. The problem with "Aliens vs Predator" is that everyone was sentenced to death from the start. Everyone got separated and decapitated so quickly that we never had a chance to care about what happened to anybody. It's as if they aimed this film at 12-year-olds, with intention of making them walk out of the theater arguing over which fight scene was best before they forgot all about it. As for the rest of us, we just forget.… Expand

As usual, Paul W.S. Anderson can't figure out how to make a movie. Like in the equally wretched Resident Evil: Apocalypse, he takes a sure-fire premise and somehow manages to make it tedious, flat, and dull. The total disregard for what makes the titular creatures interesting and abandonment of the mythology and plotlines from the films they came from make this a movie unsatisfying to anyone old enough to carry a driver's license. A wasted opportunity.… Expand

horrible movie...didnt live up to expectations...i wasnt expecting another aliens but this was worse than AR

I wouldn't really recommend this movie to anyone, it's alright at best. Some of the scenes seemed taken directly from some of Paul WS Anderson's other movies, like the map out of the tomb, as if he didn't have any new ideas, just recycling.

It was absolute crap. Even the special effects weren't going to help. Corny ending, stupid dialog, stupid film, stupid story. Nothing really happens. Just watch the old movies, they're much better. I will not watch a film by this director again, what an incompetent hack.

I was mad when I left the theater! The only reason I gave this movie a 4 is because of some of the cool Alien and Predator battles. If I had to some up the movie in one sentence I would say: "Right when you think all the cool, really awsome battles begin and the movie will finally get better.... the movie ends."

Even for my admittedly low standards this movie was pretty terrible. The whole pacing and story follows pretty closely to Paul WS Anderson's other "gems" (like Mortal Kombat, which I thought was fun enough cheese for a fan of the game like me, and Resident Evil, which I thought wasn't) in that the first 20-40 minutes or so are dedicated to "introducing" characters, "setting up" the story and being all around slow paced and stupid. Then the first "action" scene hits, and the rest of the movie is action scene after action scene after action scene, etc. until the bad guys die, at which point we are assured of a sequel. This movie is of course just like that, only there are so many crappy things I just can't get myself to say "Hey, sure it's crap, but it was fun." Because it wasn't. The fight scenes felt like they were filmed by someone with ADD who was jittery from too many mochas ("Oh look! Zoom up on the predators head! Oooh look! Now zoom into the aiens tail! OOhh ooh oooh then then then..."). As much fun as I'm sure it is watching predators kick aliens in the stomach, we see very little of it. The only redeeming factor in my book is the stupid dialogue, wonderfully hammed up by stupid acting. "There's nothing there in Antarctica!" "Well, there is now!" is but one of quite a few stupid conversations our lil explorer friends have. While none of it tops Mortal Kombats "The tournament has always been not about death, but of preserving life", it's still good fun. Too bad everything else is not funny bad, but just bad bad.… Expand

2/5 Alien Vs. Predator Take two well-known sci-fi franchises and merge them into a film in such a way that you can be assured of a huge audience, but also, that the sum is greater than the parts. Or as great. This film isn?t it. Alien Vs. Predator is a cold, calculated ?product? that is too contrived and formulaic to provide much intrigue or entertainment value. And the most amount of suspense is provided courtesy of a penguin. A corporate satellite, searching for evidence of natural resources, detects a significant amount of heat coming from an island in Antarctica. The billionaire head of the company quickly hobbles together an expedition team to investigate what appears to be a pyramid with Aztec, Egyptian and Cambodian traits, located 2000 feet below the surface. The pyramid contains walls and floors that shift every ten minutes and hieroglyphics that are interpreted by one of the crew, to give them some sense of what they have found. The maze provides so much overkill that an Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider fan would blush. The humans get into the maze, the face huggers do their thing and you have a nice population of Aliens for the Predators to hunt. It takes one human to ?birth? an Alien, so why are there so many Aliens in the place? The gestation period took hours in the first Alien film, but here they seem to pop out with greater frequency. The dialogue appears to be written by a 6th-grader. There are no outstanding characters in the film, like a Ripley from the Alien series, although they try to create one in ?Lex? Woods, played by Sanaa Lathan. There?s virtually no character development, so when they get killed, you don?t feel anything. Lance Henriksen plays the billionaire. In one scene, he briefly does the ?knife? trick from the Aliens film, where he played a ?synthetic human.? This film is an empty-calorie spectacle that doesn?t satisfy, yet it promises too much potential for fans of either series to pass up. At least we find out who taught humans how to build pyramids. Review by Triniman. … Expand

Where oh where is Ridley Scot or Cameron when a movie with this potential is wasted. Predator was a somewhat odd movie but has a staying power similar to the Alien franchise. But after 2 pretty good AvP video games, the franchise is killed. Fox should be ashamed of itself. Get a better director and make a decent movie from scratch, forgetting this mess when you do so. I would pay to see Cameron S version any day !!!!… Expand

Aliens vs Predator vs Human vs Stretcher, this movie was a joke. Freaking hilarious, The predators have the most advance technology but they still use strectchers, lmao. The movie was so lame. Everyone is saying the predators looked like can openers. At least my can opener can kill an alien with out dicking around. At the end I was reminded of an ET friendship between the predator and the black chick. … Expand

Ya know, this movie doesn't deserve a 0, as many of you believe. Unfortunately, this scale doesn't have negative numbers; so, I'll settle with calling this movie a 0. On the other hand, maybe I'm being too hard on this movie. After all, I saw it for free and still feel like I've been ripped off. That hour and a half I can never get back! I could've gotten my oil changed that day, but I decided at the time that this movie deserves more attention then my car. Boy, was I wrong. … Expand

"Consciousness vs. Nap" is our matchup before the real stars show up. Nap wins because uninteresting characters, made so by lackluster dialogue in service of an insipid storyline, is a mountain that consciousness can't scale. We're still checking our watches as the expedition team grows thinner, since these characters are so underdeveloped, guessing the order of their demise isn't much fun. "Alien vs. Predator" improves when we learn the reason why both franchises ended up in a place that has an amalgam of Cambodian, Mexican, and Egyptian architectures. It's almost, but not quite as funny as John Travolta's hair in "Battlefield Earth"; then it steals from "Terminator II: Judgement Day", and that's when the jaw-dropping begins, because "Alien vs. Predator" turns into a surrealistic (and let's not forget asinine) variation of "Batman & Robin". The first half of "Alien vs. Predator" is just plain bad, but the second half has some of that so-bad-it's-good aura which will keep you laughing at what's happening on the screen, and laughing at the audience members who don't know better to laugh at schlock. … Expand

Take a ridiculous premise, hire a bad director and a mostly second rate, no-name cast and you get the worst film you could possibly make from it in AVP. I have to agree with Brandon G. that the rocket ride out of the ice was priceless, and I always chuckle when thinking about that scene. I can't agree with those who think AVP has killed the two franchises. The two franchises were already out of gas before this was released and we haven't seen any new Alien or Predator movies in several years. I've seen "Alien," "Aliens" and "Predator". I never really liked "Aliens" and "Predator" that much and the truth is that "Alien" is the only really good movie in the entire lot. H.R. Giger's monster is the best creation in movie history, but you can't be scared by it anymore after you've seen it choke and disembowel its hundredth victim. Once you've seen Veronica Cartwright do the best job of playing the terrified victim of the monster in "Alien," copycat scenes just don't have the same impact on you. Once you've seen Sigourney Weaver breakdown crying when her character Ripley realizes she isn't the captain of the Nostromo, but rather Ash the robot is, you feel really bad for Sanaa Lathan trying her best to play AVP's equivalent of Ripley with a poorly written script to go by. We've seen this movie before and it was a hell of a lot better the first time around.… Expand

Too dark for starters, there was a lot of quick cutting which left me confused and wondering what was happening and in the end i didn't care. Should have been really good. Anyone who thinks this is good watch alien again then watch this after. It's like comparing Einstein to David Beckham.

A wasted premise. whoever financed this is probably kicked themselves or maybe not because it was obviously made just to make money with total disreguard to quality.

Wow, what a turgid piece of junk. AVP threw out any of the logic in the alien mythology and ground it into the floor with absolutely no atmosphere, terrible art direction, and horrible special effects. Only the first 2 Alien movies were great (totally different movies though) but the 3rd and 4th were at least well done (but terrible otherwise.) They all had the strong atmosphere and art direction though. AVP looks like they took toys off of the shelf and used them for the effects shots. The story was relentless, but not in a good way. Aliens was merciless, but it had class unlike this barbaric, bludgeoning meatheaded "film." No real story, just plot points to explain the ridiculous premise. Why did the Aliens have to be on earth to begin with? It kind of ruins the deep space boogie man nightmares of the original. The characters were utterly lame and started dropping like flies so quickly, there was never a chance in hell to care about any of them, unlike the other movies. In the end, there is not one redeeming quality to this film. It's another desperate attempt to make money off of an awesome original concept, which is so rare now adays because of all of the derivative sequels (just like this one)... totally burying this franchise once and for all. Please rest in peace.… Expand

Very poor is an understatement. There's so many ways they could have made this movie, so why did they make it so badly? For me it lacked tension, any connection to the characters and had more holes than a tramps pants. It just has absolutely nothing to boast, its the movie equivalent of tofu avoid it like typhoid. I'd love to find out who went to the test screening or if they actually had one?… Expand

This movie was a bomb. If you look at the teaser and say wow this looks cool, WELL YOUR WRONG. the teaser is the only good part.

I kept wating for it to get better. It didn't.

It's hard to imagine someone screwing up a movie with Aliens and Predators - all you need is a heap of Aliens being hunted by predators and some humans getting in the way every now and then. Instead you get shit. If 3 or 4 predators can't take down 4 aliens then something is seriously wrong. How does someone like Paul Anderson keep getting work? If I kept performing as badly at my work I'd be fired instantly - especially after being handed 2 surefire franchises on a platter.… Expand

What all the critics say are completely true!!! This is by far one of the most pathetic movie ever shown!!!

It was decent. I was a bit disapointed that the plot wasnt thought out more and it didnt have that many confrontations between the Aliens and Predators either. I dont think I would recommend this to any one.

While re-watching AVP, I found myself feeling a profound sense of de-ja vu. Where have I witnessed this exact same plot before? Oh - now I remember - Resident Evil. Writer/Director Paul W S Anderson isn't only plundering two successful sci-fi series with this film, he's ripping off his own films. In both we have a team of "experts" going underground on a journey of discovery, with a hidden, sinister purpose, and in both, things go sour when something nasty begins to pick off team members one-by-one. I wasn't expecting originality from a film based on a game that in turn is based on two series of films, but come on, Mr Anderson - change the record! Anyway, the film offers just about what you'd expect from the title Alien vs. Predator - two icons of science fiction turning each other into goo, with poor old humanity stuck in the middle. The characterisation is lacking even by Anderson's standards - we follow a team of stereotypes, each with a singular emotion, or personality quirk, or debilitating illness that defines them. Sanaa Lathan is meant to be the film's hero, but simply comes across as a Ripley knock-off crossed with Bear Grylls. Colin Salmon, though effortlessly cool as always, plays EXACTLY the same character he did in Anderson's Resident Evil. You've also got such interesting characters as archaeologist Sebastian (Raoul Bova), who's Italian, Graeme (Ewan Bremner), who's Scottish, Mark the mercenary (Tommy Flanagan) who's got a scar, and Adele (Agathe de La Boulaye) who's French AND a woman. Wow, these are really the kinds of characters you can get emotionally invested in. At least you've got Lance Henriksen at least attempting to give a performance as Mr Weyland (and giving the film some semblance of continuity with the Alien series), though he generally manages to get by simply by having an awesome voice. Despite the lazy characters and pretty dreadful script, to Paul W S Anderson's credit, the film does get a whole lot better once the titular extra-terrestrial brawl begins in earnest. Anderson has undeniable skill in directing action sequences, and the acid-blood-spraying fights are extremely entertaining. As fun as they are, they begin far too late in the film, and you are forced to sit through a good half-hour of clunky exposition before anything really kicks off. AVP is an emotionless, inhuman affair, but the action is well-handled, and both the xenomorphs and predators look better than they ever have. If we were subjected to a less drawn-out build to the first set-piece, and if the filmmakers hadn't been so greedy and pandered to a pre-teen audience, we might have had a pretty good time watching two races of gruesome monsters pounding each other to fluorescent pulp. As it is, the film is passably entertaining, but nothing else. It's too empty, too long, and nowhere-near scary or violent enough.… Expand

The only (and little) good thing in AvsP is probably the respectives mythologies of the two legendary franchises. But direction and interpretation are both deplorable; if I want to see a fight as the one between the two creatures in AvsP, I can see professional wrestling at TV.

This movie had so much potential, and it was ruined by bad acting, story, effects and everything. Where is the interspecies deathmatch all us nerds hoped for? Don't watch this, it is a trashy 90 minutes of your life!

The movie was horrifying in a really bad way. There is some of the worst acting i have ever seen in this film. The action is completly pointless and pitiful. Why did someone make this movie. A disgraceful movie on every level. Please tell me this was a joke.