AVP: Alien vs. Predator

AVP: Alien vs. Predator is such an incredibly mediocre movie. It’s completely surface level combination of these two juggernaut franchises into something so basic it’s insulting. I’ll start with the positives. One thing I’ve noticed with this director’s works is that the set designs are top notch. The effects in this film were also pretty good (most of the time) and the action was solid. This film really fails at its characters and story. I haven’t seen a film in a while that tried for so long to get me to like the characters only to completely give up half way through to focus on other aspects. The characters are a joke. They are incredibly bland and I only slightly cared for a single character and that’s it. (Also why are we trying to make Weyland likable?) Since the story is also incredibly generic and executed in the most average way possible, you don’t really care about anything that’s happening for the first half of the movie. The second half is a bit better as is the pacing as it actually focuses on the cooler aspects like actually watching our titular characters fighting each other. Even then as it went on, I began to care less and less about the action and just wanted the film to wrap up. The best character in the end probably was The Predator and even he is incredibly generic. But at least he had cool armor. Really, while watching this film, I was trying to find something I could latch onto and like about this film. I’m a pretty big Alien fan and I’m making my way through the Predator franchise right now. Even then, I found it hard to grasp anything about this film. It’s not bad, it’s a serviceable enough movie that’s just meant to be a cheesy dumb blockbuster and you enjoy because you like both franchises. However I couldn’t really enjoy this and was just waiting for it to end. Maybe if it had been R, it might have had some cool gore that would have made this film more fun (why would you take two R rated franchises and make a PG-13 rated film? That’s so stupid). Anyways AVP: Alien vs. Predator is a skip for me.