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Originally posted by pritchke:
<font face="Verdana" size="3" color="#00FF00">Hmm! I have heard that reviews were bad to mediocre. However people I know who watched it really enjoyed it. I am thinking it is probably a fun action movie, with lots of special effects, but not big on story telling.</font>
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<font color=plum>That's a pretty good assessment, <font color=lime>Pritcke</font>. The producer "played it safe" and basically combined the best elements from Aliens and Predator 2 into this movie. If you liked the 2nd movie in both series (and I LOVED Bill Paxton's character in Aliens "Hey man, in case you haven't been keeping up on current events, we just got our ASSESS KICKED!!!" - I always love that line) then you will probably like this movie too.
OBLIGATORY SPOILER WARNING!!!!!
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I agree the back story is a little incredible - but still fairly plausible given the fact that they are explaining how 2 alien races end up in a ritualistic hunt against one another.
I was pleased to see that they did remain true to the characteristics of both races. Since this was "Aliens vs Predator", I thought the humans in it might end up being sideline spectators for the most part (with the exception of the obligatory casualties), but the humans fared about as well in this one as they did in all of the other movies with these two alien races - they served as fodder that was used up quickly.
The one part that bothered me the most was the end scene. It was VERY reminiscent of Predator 2, with one small exception. Our lone human survivor is standing in the middle of ANTARTICA!!! - NOT L.A. And she is basically stripped down to nothing more than a heavy sweatshirt - and she doesn't so much as shiver. Excuuuuse me, but the whole "set up" leading to the Big Hunt was the fact that it was in the middle of an ARCTIC WASTELAND where "the temperature of the water would kill you in 3 minutes" - not in Upstate NY on a snowy night.
As for Bishop, I thought that was a cool addition (and at least a mediocre attempt at a "tie in"). Did anyone else notice on the cover of the magazine that he was "the world's foremost expert on robotics?" (or words to that effect). In the end, though, this version of Bishop was all too human.
I was actually surprised by the "twist" at the end, although I know I really shouldn't have been. And THAT does bring the storyline "full circle" and sets up the beginning of a new Alien-saga with the Predators being the main course instead of humans next time.</font>