To ingest Alien vs. Predator on its own slimy, divertingly synthetic terms, it helps to forget everything previously known -- and loved -- about the franchise monster aliens who get star billing.
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08/20/04
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Alien vs. Predator (2004)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:1
Rotten:23
Average Rating:3.4/10
Consensus: Gore without scares and cardboard cut-out characters make this clash of the monsters a dull sit.
Theatrical Release:Aug 13, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $80,218,314
Synopsis: When audiences caught a glimpse of an alien skull mounted in the trophy cabinet of a Predator in the 1990 film PREDATOR 2, it seemed a franchise was about to be born. Sure enough, comic book... [More]
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
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Reviews for Alien vs. Predator
Top CriticExpensive claptrap.
08/20/04
Top CriticPerfunctory battle sequences, cardboard characters, and uncreative scare 'ems.
08/17/04
Top CriticThe film equivalent of a deep-fried Mars bar: an interesting combination that results in a gloppy mess.
08/16/04
Top CriticTake a wretched premise. Imagine the worst picture that could be made from it. Then imagine something even worse.
08/16/04
Top CriticAnderson ... seems so pleased with the fact that he came up with a thinly plausible pretext for this clash of the popcorn titans that he didn't bother to develop the characters or fashion a plot with any suspense.
08/16/04
Top CriticThis is a sad end for two profitable Hollywood franchises, which now seem to be at an end. The movie bills itself as some sort of ultimate hunt. Instead, it's merely a mercy killing.
08/16/04
Top CriticOne thing is certain: Nobody is going to be demanding a rematch.
08/16/04
Top CriticThe actual fights between the predators and the serpents are too silly to contemplate. Both shiny and metallic, they look like kitchen appliances fighting it out.
08/16/04
Top CriticThe movie had an opportunity to raise some broader philosophical questions about the nature of evil. Does it coil deep within us or come at us with a retractable spear? Anyway, it passed on that.
08/16/04
Top CriticThough sometimes marred by murky lighting and quick-cut incoherence, the action is sudden and sensational.
08/16/04
Top CriticIn the battle of the ugly syrup creatures with teeth, can anyone really be declared a winner?
08/16/04
Top CriticA movie based on a video game based on two entirely separate sci-fi horror series -- so whatever was interesting in the originals has long been bred out, like double-jointedness.
08/16/04
Top CriticAnderson has some strengths, but he borrows too much from other movies.
08/16/04
Top CriticThe Aliens are looking a little dogged, perhaps ready for the Alien Retirement Home. Meanwhile, the Predator warriors, who never achieved the artistic heights of their counterpart, look better invisible.
08/15/04
Top CriticThis is a dull, plodding, ultra-serious feature that has a lot more in common with a video game than a motion picture.
08/15/04
Top CriticPaul Simon and Bob Dylan. Elton John and Billy Joel. Alien vs. Predator is just another contrived combination of two former chartbusters who perform their greatest hits before coming together for a duet at the end.
08/14/04
Top CriticBetween the Predators' dripping their glow-in-the-dark green blood and the Aliens' getting their rubber cement mucous all over everything, this is certainly a very sticky movie, though not, ultimately, a very frightening or commanding one.
08/14/04
Top CriticGoing from the noisily routine to the ludicrous, AVP's final reel or so are likely to produce howls.
08/13/04
Top CriticAmong the verbal howlers: 'This is like finding Moses' DVD collection' and, from Lathan's team leader, 'This is starting to make sense!'
08/13/04
Top CriticLatest News for Alien vs. Predator
March 11, 2008:
Fox Brewing Alien vs. Predator 3?
2004's Alien vs. Predator earned a 22 percent Tomatometer rating. 2007's Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem topped out at 15 percent. Would a third installment end up with single digits? More...
October 26, 2007:
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem -- See What A "Predalien" Looks Like!
According to USA Today, when you cross an Alien with a Predator, the result is "either a bad joke or a box-office hit." More...
October 12, 2007:
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