Uncle Northcott’s Movie Reviews

AVP=Alien VS. Predator. R is for requiem. Well at least its better than the first one. Faint praise indeed. This one starts where the first one ended with an alien popping out of a dead predator. This alien is 1/2 alien, 1/2 predator and quickly runs amok causing the ship to crash. Soon the facehuggers escape the downed ship and scamper into the forest to pick daisies, eat s’mores and lay eggs in the chest cavitys of hunters. It doesen’t take long before aliens are popping up like deep space hemorrhoids. Not really a suprise since their home planet is Uranus. Cheap joke I know. Meanwhile on the predators home planet, the predators version of Jack Bauer is sent to Earth to stop the madness. Soon this 1 lonely predator is fighting aliens, cops,military and humans of all types. The non-discript actors are stepin’ and fetchin’ like their head is on fire and their ass is a catchin’. Their trying to get out of town while shady government types try to stop the outbreak. I wont spoil the “suprises” but since this is paint by numbers film making I doubt you’ll be suprised. Theirs alot of deviating from the established alien story like a alien/predator hybrid. What? they have never absorbed their victims DNA before. The aliens also mature much faster than at any time before. Its bad writing to change things just to move the story along. This movie is rated “R” so its automatically better than the first one, and its an ok horror film. So if you like monster movies and want to kill a couple of hours you could do worse. I heard this is the number one film in Stephenville Texas. Next: Juno