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Rating: PG-13 (violence, language, horror images, slime and gore) Length: 109 minutes |
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Widescreen 2.35:1 Color (Anamorphic) |
Audio |
ENGLISH: DTS 5.1 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 2.0 FRENCH: Dolby Digital 2.0 |
Captions |
English, Spanish |
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Plot |
A satellite has detected a pyramid buried deep underground in Antarctica. A team of experts in many fields are quickly assembled for an expedition to that site. Gee, I wonder what they'll find?
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Pros |
They took the time to tie in the two franchises into a believable story which made for a very entertaining film. The actors they brought in were from all over the world and, for the most part, not household names, bringing an international flare to the film. I also loved how they brought Lance back into the fold tying his character back into Aliens. |
Cons |
They decided to water the film down so that it could get a PG-13 rating and I would have liked to have seen a lot more action between the namesakes of this film and a little less of the humans wandering a maze. |
Extras |
- Audio Commentary with Director Paul W.S. Anderson and Actors Lance Henriksen and Sanaa Lathan
- Audio Commentary by Visual Effects Supervisor John Bruno & Creature Effects Designers/Creators Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff, Jr.
- "AVP The Beginning with Branching Video" Featurette
- "ADI Workshop" Featurette
- "AVP Production" Featurette
- "Miniature Whaling Station" Featurette
- "Facehuggers & Eggs" Featurette
- "Trouble At the Mouth of the Tunnel" Featurette
- "Visual Effects Breakdown" Featurette
- "Aliens Vs. Predator The Comic Book" Featurette
- "Monsters In Miniature by Todd McFarlane" Featurette
- HBO Special
- Deleted Scenes
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Recommendation |
If you enjoy science fiction and liked the previous films (at least the 1st two Alien and 1st Predator movies) then you'll enjoy this. That is everyone except for the people I describe below. Warning, it's a rant!
If you go to IMDb and read the negative reviews of this film you might come away thinking it's the worse film ever made; the fan boys ripped it to shreds. A word to the fan boys that can quote every specific about Aliens/Predators off the top of their heads because they've memorized all the movies and comic books; get a freaking life. If you're not going to move out of your parents basement at least force yourself to walk outside once a day to get some air. Reading their critiques will both make you laugh and cry; laugh about how damn silly and detailed they are (it's only a movie after all) and cry that this (a movie) meant so much to a person they were willing, and had the time, to write a thesis decrying a simple film. After all, this is science fiction; though I fear many of these people feel otherwise. |
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Actors |
- Kieran Bew - Klaus
- Pavel Bezdek - Bass
- Raoul Bova - Sebastian de Rosa
- Ewen Bremner - Graeme Miller
- [Black Hawk Down, Pearl Harbor, The Rundown, Snatch, Trainspotting]
- Agathe De La Boulaye - Adele Rousseau
- Jan Pavel Filipensky - Boris
- [xXx]
- Tommy Flanagan - Mark Verheiden
- [Gladiator, The Saint, Sin City]
- Lance Henriksen - Charles Bishop Weyland
- [Aliens, Damien: The Omen II, Dead Man, Near Dark, The Quick and the Dead (1995)]
- Petr Jákl - Stone
- [xXx]
- Sanaa Lathan - Alexa Woods
- [Blade]
- Carsten Norgaard - Rusten Quinn
- [Soldier]
- Joseph Rye - Joe Connors
- Colin Salmon - Maxwell Stafford
- [Die Another Day, Dinotopia, Resident Evil, Tomorrow Never Dies, The World Is Not Enough]
- Sam Troughton - Thomas Parks
- Carsten Voigt - Mikkel
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