In this unrated version (101 minutes) the gore quotient is pretty high - worlds better than the first AVP - and to its credit works to give us characters with stories and not just characteristics. A father and son hunting duo run afoul of the accident scene (tip: if you see a crashed alien spaceship, don't immediately bang on it with the butt of your rifle, you might annoy the tenants) and before you can say 'the food isn't that bad' a small Colorado town is overrun by crazed Aliens and angered Predators out to settle a score.ĪVP-R is fast, bloody and cruel. Onboard a Predator spaceship, an Alien has gotten punchy, killing and causing the ship to crash land on cozy little Planet Earth.

Unfolding with a bit of sweeping flair, bouncing from group to group of people (or aliens) as their respective stories are sketched in, AVP-R starts with dramatic promise.

So when you're following in those footsteps - look out! It's like saying I'm going to make an even better Jackson Pollock painting, or Hey, let's form a band that will be more influential than The Beatles.

To wit there is nothing wrong with Alien, everything within works perfectly, and nothing is there that needn't be. Maybe I'm an extreme case, but few would argue - critics and fans - that Alien isn't an exceptionally good film certainly within the top 100 sci-fi horror films of all time.

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