Review: AVP: Alien vs Predator

The one good thing about working night shift is that I have the freedom to pretty much do whatever I want. Last night, I watched Alien vs Predator.

When I had heard that they were making this movie, I knew it was eiter going to be really good or really bad. At release, when there weren't any reviews out for it the day before, I knew that it was really bad. The guys went to see it and the response was mixed. Sean loved it, while everyone else pretty much hated it.

I'm a huge fan of the Alien franchise. And to a lesser extent, the Predator franchise. So regardless of which, I was going to see this movie.

Let's just get this out of the way. It isn't a good movie. There's plot holes and continuity issues, but it's short. I guess that's the only thing going for it.

The biggest issue had to do with how they tried to establish that the Predators brought pyramid technology to Earth. As a result of their tech, they were worshipped like gods. It's bad enough that Stargate already did this, and better, but there's simple proof that this never happened.

If you look at Egyption, Cambodian, or Aztec pyramids, you see no references to Predators or how they were like gods. Right there, the whole thing falls apart. It's rediculous.

The second thing had to do with the Predators tech. I'm not talking about their cloaking tech or their guns, but about their armor and blades.

You see one scene early on in the movie where a predator cuts the tail of one of the aliens. Because of the acid blood, it melts away the predator's claw blade. But later on, you see them use spears and frisbee blade discs and they survive the acid just fine. Then later, you see the acid get on their armor and eat right through it.

You would think that a race, who's entire society is built on the hunting of this creature would have better tech against it. It's not like they don't know the thing has acid for blood. I mean, c'mon!

With those two examples, you get a pretty good understanding of how terrible this movie is.

1/5. Not a zero because it was short and it was kind of fun.