11-27: Lightning Bolt: Hypermagic Mountain
11-20: Wooden Wand and the Vanishi...: The Flood
10-02: ...: Oboroed/Circus Live...
07-04: Need New Body: Where's Black Ben?
04-09: Caribou: The Milk of Human Kindness
10-13: Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse
10-13: Things Explod...: It's Never Worked Befor...
10-03: Controller.Controller: History
Music Reviews index


11-09: Three...Extremes
10-19: Battle Royale II
10-04: A History of Violence
08-26: Grizzly Man
08-22: The 40 Year-Old Virgin
08-12: The Dukes of Hazzard
08-05: The Devil's Rejects
08-03: The Island
Movie Reviews index


01-06: List: Best/Worst of 2005: Movies
08-28: List: 2004's 50 Best Albums, Part 2
07-02: List: 2004's Best and Worst Movies
04-20: Article: Mikel Ate That CD
04-20: Interview: Half of the Fiery Furnaces
04-17: List: 2004's 50 Best Albums, Part 1
04-08: List: 2003's 20 Best Albums
Features index


Alien vs. Predator
Alien vs. Predator
Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon
Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson
100 min, 2004

2/8

This movie contains: aliens, predators, Spud from Trainspotting, some pretty entertaining fight scenes, what seems like the beginning of a love story between the female lead and a predator, a worse approximation of archaeology than even Tomb Raider, Lance Henriksen, and one penguin.

This movie does not contain: character development, believability, Arnold Schwartzenegger, Sigourney Weaver, Jesse Ventura, any memorable lines, aside from Spud anything resembling an actor or a performance.

It's like if you took the indie credibility away from Cube and added aliens and predators.


quoth Pat Jackson.