AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers (WGA):

Dan O'Bannon ("Alien" characters) and
Ronald Shusett ("Alien" characters) ...

Release Date:

13 August 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Whoever wins... We lose.

Plot:

During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in the Antarctic ocean, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realise that only one species can win.

Plot Keywords:

Bad Guy Turns Good | Flashlight | Cult Sci Fi | Gruesome | Gore

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Sanaa Lathan	...	Alexa Woods
Raoul Bova	...	Sebastian de Rosa
Lance Henriksen	...	Charles Bishop Weyland
Ewen Bremner	...	Graeme Miller
Colin Salmon	...	Maxwell Stafford
Tommy Flanagan	...	Mark Verheiden
Joseph Rye	...	Joe Connors
Agathe De La Boulaye	...	Adele Rousseau
Carsten Norgaard	...	Rusten Quinn
Sam Troughton	...	Thomas Parks
Petr Jákl	...	Stone
Pavel Bezdek	...	Bass
Kieran Bew	...	Klaus
Carsten Voigt	...	Mikkel
Jan Pavel Filipensky	...	Boris (as Jan Filipensky)

Also Known As:

Alien vs. Predator (Germany) (USA) (short title)
AVP (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
AVP: Alien vs. Prédateur (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, horror images, slime and gore.

Runtime:

101 min | 109 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA | Canada | Germany | Czech Republic | UK

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Malaysia:18SG | Malaysia:U (re-rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-18 (original rating) | Canada:18+ (TV rating) | New Zealand:M | Japan:U | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Ireland:15 | Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:PT | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:18 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #40968) | Greece:K-13

Filming Locations:

CKD Factory, Vysocany, Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

The morse code picked up by the satellite at the beginning of the film spells out the words, "Whoever wins, we lose". This is, of course, the tagline used to promote the film.

Goofs:

Continuity: When Alexa and Scar are on the sled trying to get away from the bomb, Alexa is holding on tight with both hands. When she jumps off the sled and runs, she has the head shield on her arm, covering her hand. She wouldn't have had time to pick it up once the sled stopped.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Technician: Hey. Hey, hey, come here, take a look at this.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Film Geek (2005)

Soundtrack:

La Bamba

Bad, really bad

Okay, I'll confess that the only reason I registered at this site is to tell people how bad this movie really is.

AVP is embarrassing, the whole thing gives you the impression of an empty commercial exploitation on the well-known monsters images.

Anyone who comes to this kinda of review sites and gives this movie a 10 out of 10 is either a Fox films employee or related to the film crew somehow. Don't fall for it.

The whole idea of teen Predators hunting Aliens to become "real warriors" is idiotic. How can you compare a high tech civilization that is able to travel space to Indians? Okay, maybe It is possible they would have the same kind of ritual, after all why can't highly developed species have their rituals...

I was intrigued about how the first time a Predator blew itself up on top of the Pyramid it did not damage the construction at all.... Of course, the second time that another Predator did that, the whole thing fell apart.

It is laughable the friendship among the hero-chick and the teen Predator. I could almost see them holding hands and running away in the end of the movie. It turns out that the Predator developed feelings for her. I wonder why the Predators first came down from the sky shooting the hell out of the other guys who stayed in the abandoned whailing facility, no questions asked. Still wondering...

I didn't like the "new" Alien life cycle. The face-hugger burst out as an alien in 40 seconds. This is truly ridiculous. Anderson did not even take the time to watch the original Alien movie.

On top of that, the cast is composed by a bunch obscure nobodies in shallow roles. Even if they were any good, the lines they received would just have made them look as bad as they did.

As an Alien and Predator fan I felt I was disrespected. If you are too, you will know what I am talking about