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AVP: Alien vs. Predator | 163231__alien_l
MONSTER'S BALL The face off
Alien Vs. Predator: Jurgen Vollmer

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Release Date: Aug 13, 2004; Rated: PG-13; DVD Release Date: Jan 25, 2005; Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror, Sci-fi; With: Lance Henriksen and Sanaa Lathan; Distributor: 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson's beside-the-point setup AVP: Alien vs. Predator has billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Aliens alum Lance Henriksen) recruiting a team to explore an ancient pyramid beneath Antarctica — actually a cage match venue, as the poor simps learn, for Predators hunting Aliens as a rite of passage. Anderson (Resident Evil) won't make anyone forget Ridley Scott or James Cameron, but he does deliver creature-on-creature action that will set your inner adolescent stirring, if not quite bursting out of your chest. EXTRAS Anderson's commentary with his actors is its own sort of free-for-all, as he plays to fanboys by citing the film's various acknowledgments of the two franchises, while requisite Alien-wranglin' heroine Sanaa Lathan supplies the new-bie perspective by noting which effects look like ''flying vaginas.'' Anderson also gives props to the '90s AVP comics that catalyzed the crossover, with a thorough sampling of them in DVD-ROM materials.


Posted Jan 17, 2005
 

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