Alien Vs Predator - Review

Alien Vs Predator Alien Vs Predator - ReviewLike the plot from some fan boy's sci-fi film wet dream but real! The titans of human butchery are back and this time it's each other they're after- phew! But hold on a minute, the news isn't so good if you're one of a hand picked team sent to investigate a mysterious pyramid two thousand feet beneath the ice of Antarctica that just happens to be the Predators hunting ground. Oops, should have stayed in the lab but the Billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland can be a persuasive fellow and who could pass up on the opportunity to be one of the first to uncover the enigma of the newly discovered pyramid?

Weyland is played by Lance Henriksen who the keen eyed in the audience will recognise as the android Bishop from the films Aliens and Aliens 3. Henriksen adds an air of continuity to the Aliens franchise and gravitas to the cast of humans. But the star of the film, aside from the extra terrestrials, is gutsy Alexa Lex' Woods played by Sanaa Lathan. Lex leads the team, despite her loudly voiced objections, into the heart of the pyramid and into an age-old cycle of horror and killing designed by the bloody-minded Predators. Since Predator 2 and Danny Glover's penetration of the Predator spacecraft audiences have been aware of both their frequent visits to earth and their taste for a bit of Geiger Alien hunting. AVP expands these two

premises and weaves them into a back-story that explains the appearance of the pyramid structure all over the surface of the earth in many differing cultures. The fact that they revealed to be elaborate mazes of death designed to train young Predators in the art of killing, (Aliens bred especially for this purpose) surely only adds to the mystique and glamour of these ancient structures.

The film builds the tension slowly before things go horribly wrong for the human team who inadvertently kick off the gory proceedings before the young Predators have had chance to properly tool-up. Hopelessly outnumbered by Alien spawn the Predators have the bothersome task of retrieving their famously deadly shoulder guns from the blundering humans which leads to a strange alliance being formed between one Predator and born survivor Lex. This relationship is, as with Danny Glover, designed to show that humans can be hard enough to earn the respect of galactic big game hunters but also at one-point verges on the romantic.

AVP does what it says on the can, lacking the class and horror of Alien and without the macho glory of Predator it is almost equal to both Aliens and Predator 2, which manage to keep their noses in front of this new offering through sheer weight of shells fired if nothing else. On the other hand what made Danny Glover the hardest man on the planet?

This film is dumb fun and a great spectacle. It lacks horror and it isn't that jumpy but you do get to see Predators acting really cool and killing Aliens in a pyramid beneath Antarctica , how can you say that isn't worth a look?

Neil McFarland

http://www.avp-movie.com

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