Review of Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem

These two talentless hacks essentially took two of the greatest movie monsters in history- one of them from two Oscar winning films and the other from an excellent action film- and put them in a terrible 1980s Friday the 13th movie, atrocious acting and all. If the acting were merely serviceable, I could have enjoyed the film to some extent. Unfortunately, the acting in the film is so terrible you have a hard time even looking at the screen without wincing....it's almost as if they took people off the street who had never even read the script (as moronic it may be.) To take a quote from Futurama "I have seen better acting from extras in Godzilla movies!" and that is a perfectly fitting description for this movie. The acting is so terrible it feels as though the entire film is going to collapse on itself but, alas, the torture lasts 86 minutes. If that weren't enough, the story is about as inventive as a 3rd rate Sci-Fi channel movie and the films much praised gore factor is surprisingly low (FAR less than the far superior Alien Resurrection.) The directing is horrific, the situations end up spoofing themselves unintentionally. The only positive aspect about the film are a few of the predator scenes and the final fight scene between the Predator and the Predalien, which is intense but fleeting. I feel like I have just been raped. I hated the first AVP and, although the creatures in this film look better and the violence is better, the acting and directing was far superior in that film....and that's not saying a lot.