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ATM Tastes Better Than AVP Annoying versus Pathetic? No. Antiquated versus Predictable? No. Perhaps it was meant in its pornographic equivalent... What is clear is that AvP is just another sequel failing to execute anything remotely original, good, or interesting. This is just another horror/action movie with stupid people in it. Based on a comic based on the two movies franchises (you know what they say about the copy of a copy), AvP brings nothing to the table that didn't come before. This would be fine were it at least well executed. Instead we are subjected to cliche (if totally unbelievable) characters, bad acting, a wholly uninspired screenplay, and lame action sequences intermittent with off-the-dummy-card exposition. Alien versus Predator does prove that if you're ever a tycoon hiring a squad of mercs, make sure you check their references, and if ever you find yourself in a jam, trust the young, hot, smooth-skinned mountain-climbing, tree-hugging chick (Sanaa Lathan) over the scarred, grizzled gun-toter (Tommy Flanagan) or any of the geniuses (Ewen Bremner, Raoul Bova) that were brought along for their, ahem, expertise. Among the fundamental failings of this film were ones shared with Alien 3, Alien Resurrection, and Predator 2: The characters lacking large amounts of knowledge the audience possesses. In an attempt to illustrate that the characters are ignorant the movie degenerates into making them stupid, taking from them basic human will and survival instincts; we don't sit atop the food chain because we can't deal with the unexpected, folks. It doesn't stop there either. The predators are equally stupefied as they enter the mix, 66% of their numbers getting geeked in their first encounter with a single alien. Only when Johnny Pred gets his gun does he start to act anything like the Predator that we've come to know, fear, and respect. The fact that our predator hero is the most interesting character and the best acting performance in the film without ever talking is hardly a compliment. The film's high point is that it ends, but don't let that distract you from the lame-ass ending, once again insisting on the stupidity of the predators, creatures that have been fighting aliens for thousands of years, and specifically ones that had the mark of having survived what we all just watched. If I can think of it why can't the futuristic hunter-race? Case and point: Why would you chain up the queen alien in chains the alien could simply bleed on to disintegrate? Sad to see a concept with so much to still offer be milked from the same udders rendered dry from past milking. I can't believe I have to grant half a star to this anal burr. email this review to a friend
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