The film was an absolute disgrace and a waste of celluloid. Yet another film sent out to bastardise the franchise and think it is worth of being called Aliens vs. Predator. Instead of adding in a decent build up, with suspense, tention and horror, FOX and Shane Salerno decided it's be a good idea to make this 1hour and 20 minutes long and throw everything at you in such a short space of time, allowing no proper plot development, or character development.
The lack of character development in this film made me almost cheer when the residents of Gunnison were slaughtered one by one. The lack of talent behind these characters didn't help either with very wooden performances being shot left, right and centre. Suddenly a bunch of teens are handed guns and they know how to handle them....sorry, but that's just stupid. If you've seen any video of people shooting guns for the first time without practice, you'll see how much they screw up. We should never have been introduced to such pointless teen characters who didn't serve any purpose other than to be brutally killed by the creatures. Seeing Aliens in a small town just doesn't work, and took it that one step further from the original films, and also for the simple fact that it doesn't work.
The setting was just rubbish, it was almost like Dawson's Creek vs. Aliens vs. Predator. If anything this film should have been set further in the future when Weyland Yutani were colonising worlds, and the ship should have been found and tugged back to an 'LV426' type environment to only unleash hell on a planet...that isn't Earth.
Now, the creatures...............what the hell happened there? The only improvement? The predator, it was a decent design......until it removed it's bio helmet....I'm sorry but did someone screw up the front-back-side view image in Photoshop for the sculptor? Because that was one massive face! The back of the head was almost vertical, only hidden by the dreadlocks.
The Predalien was a laughable design, and is yet another badly designed creature that pays no attention to Giger's original designs other than it had an Alien mouth. I don't think ADI should continue using their Ressurection design as it's making the aliens look really stupid. The best designs were in Alien, Aliens and Alien 3, and also, I don't think ADI quite understood that the Predalien should have had normal legs like the Predator. This multi-joint design just doesn't work unless the physical structure of the creature has multi-jointed legs, like a dog. In ressurection they ignored this detail in the development cycle (probably due to the fact that, that film was a complete disaster...and yes, it was a disaster). I think if another film is made they need to get large blown up images of Giger's work in their studio so the artists can go...so that's what our creatures should look like.
The aliens....again, what the hell happened? This Ressurection design needs to be thrown out. Sandy Collora got this right with almost no budget, and over $100million later we're still left with the scraps from Ressurection. The Alien design has been ruined and throwing a ridged head one doesn't make it aliens because the rest of the design doesn't follow through, or work. There is almost too much character thrown into the aliens now, I prefer first film's Alien's almost mechanical, biomechanoid, non human styled characteristics, which made it all the more frightening because it wasn't natural. Now they move like they're talking to each other and acting more like Humans...it just wasn't right.
Overall, a pointless waste of of a sequel, which will unfortunately spawn many more bad sequels despite bad Box Office numbers. I really hope this inspires Scott and Cameron to step back into their old routes and stop the AvP films. FOX also need to realise what they're doing....hahaha!! But we all know that won't happen.....unfortunately
An utterly disappointing film, and it's up to the fans to let FOX know that they really aren't capturing the Hardcore Alien/Predator fans.
0/10 for me
