If you go in for mindless fun, this is a great movie. If you judge it by the normal criteria, this movie is FULL of the bad. But if you go into a movie like this one expecting Shakespeare, you’re in for a loss anyway.

I regard this like I regard a movie. You have a throwaway plot, but the goal is to see Aliens and Predators doing the coolest stuff they possibly can.

There are a lot of cool scenes here, but a lot of the movie concerns itself with story. Oddly enough, some of it rubs off. There are connections to the old films, and the respect side of the Predators are still there. They’re not just mindless brutes, in other words.

The queen mother is awesome, the fight scenes are really well done, and it’s nice to see a human working with a Predator, even though some of it was cheesy. The best part of the movie is the sheer geekgasms experienced watching the fighting and the elements of established figures being played with by someone who knows the lore and likes having fun, unlike half-hearted project in franchises that explode like a wet fart (Batman and Robin).

There is a really, really horrible and cliché storyline. There’s also the fact that at the end of the film, the Predators leave the protagonist in the middle of the ice continent with no way home. Punks!

There’s also a noticeable lack of throwing down. Like in Freddy vs. Jason, there’s the one scene where they beat each other senseless, but there was just that one scene. I want TEN SCENES. I understand, to get the movie made you have to convince execs about a marketable story, but man, it’s not like a story is going to be what brings people to AVP. Even dumb execs know that. This movie needed at least three more scenes of throwing down and three less scenes of getting to know the people who are going to die in cool new ways. That’s all I’m saying.

Still, that said, usually I can’t watch a flick without wanting my time back, and this one was worth a watch, one good watch, and that’s more than most movies out there. I’d give it a whirl. I should have seen it in the theater, but I was poor at that point, alas. Paul Anderson had my attention with some of his earlier work, but he seems to be stuck in a theme. Movies that are okay, good for one watch, and coherent, but nothing EPIC. Still, easy fun. Crank up the speakers and watch the eye candy!

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