What a fucking disappointment. I’ve been a huge fan of both the Alien and the Predator series. In fact, I still consider Alien my favourite movie.

Firstly, the director has jammed both the ‘jungle’ theme from Predator and the urban theme from Predator: 2 into the one film. Which means both were strongly compromised.

All Alien films (including Alien VS Predator) had a great sense of isolation. Seems someone thought they’d make a better film by dropping this completely. All of sudden, taking them out of surreal surroundings, it lost ALL credibility and became another cheezy alien based monster flick.

All this movie did was take the best scenes from existing Alien and Predator movies (not even the first AVP – which was ‘bearable’) and use their trademark features in a sloppy crock of shit.

The sequel to Alien, Aliens was the easiest to spot through out the film. If I saw it again I’m sure I could list more but for now (in no particular order):

1. Ripley’s independent, militant woman archetype
2. The key female characters flirtation with the
3. Newt – even her line and tone referring to the aliens as monsters
4. Female driver in an APC with crew inside
5. Heart Rate Monitor Flat Lining on troop monitors rehashed into hospital monitors
6. Commander only hearing the Aliens (with their classic scream/roar thing) through the battle communicator

From Alien 3:

1. The alien behind the hospital ward soft-screen

Lastly, the two stoners for comic relief was a very desperate stretch. Some characters were wasted and too long was spent on their development, and where it should have been (in the key characters) it was skimped on.

Seriously. Fuck you guys. What a load of shit. Thanks for wasting my time.