Product Description

"It may be our planet, but it’s their war!" The deadliest creatures from the scariest sci-fi movies ever made face off for the first time on film. The incredible adventure begins when the discovery of an ancient pyramid buried in Antarctica sends a team of scientists and adventurers to the frozen continent. There, they make an even more terrifying discovery: two alien races engaged in the ultimate battle. Whoever wins...we lose.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9302 in DVD
• Brand: LATHAN,SANAA
• Released on: 2005-01-25
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English, Italian
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 101 minutes

Amazon.com
In delivering PG-13-rated excitement, Alien vs. Predator is an acceptably average science-fiction action thriller with some noteworthy highlights, even if it squanders its opportunity to intelligently combine two popular and R-rated franchises. Rabid fans can justifiably ask "Is that all there is?" after a decade of development hell and eager anticipation, but we're compensated by reasonably logical connections to the Alien legacy and the still-kicking Predator franchise (which hinted at AVP rivalry at the end of Predator 2); some cleverly claustrophobic sets, tense atmosphere and impressive digital effects; and a climactic AVP smackdown that's not half bad. This disposable junk should've been better, but nobody who's seen Mortal Kombat or Resident Evil should be surprised by writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson's lack of imagination. As a brisk, 90-minute exercise in generic thrills, however, Anderson's work is occasionally impressive... right up to his shameless opening for yet another sequel. --Jeff Shannon

From The New Yorker
Twentieth Century Fox goes for the quick bucks with a franchise-damaging rip-off. Directed with monstrous incompetence by Paul W. S. Anderson, this counterfeit sci-fi adventure about an ancient pyramid that provokes a showdown between the two classic movie aliens should have been acid-slinging fun. Instead, there's endlessly boring exposition, by-the-book characters, and dimly lit set pieces that mask the low-end production budget. Fans will shed a tear when they see how the frightening and wondrous alien designs by Stan Winston and H. R. Giger are thrown around like so much garbage. -Bruce Diones
Copyright © 2006 The New Yorker

Customer Reviews

Now part of the canon of the main films ...

This film definitely benefits from retrospect. After having viewed it now several times I've come down on the side of the fans with this film and not on the side of the haters, of which there are many.

When this movie was reported on, most of the mainstream press dismissed it outright as either an over the top combination, too niche of an audience, a bad idea that could ruin both franchises, and so on. After the initial shock wave settled and the movie came out, the box office numbers were pretty dismal and the film was then seen to have under-preformed. The expectation was probably too great to live up to or even meet half-way. Aliens vs. Predator landed with a thud in the theatres as well as on DVD when it was finally released.

But with all due respect, the film is greater than it's marketing history and will probably be seen as such in time to come.

The story has some surprising elements to it. Lance Henriksen being one of them, playing Charles 'Bishop' Weyland of ... ahem ...Weyland Industries. Yes, now it all makes sense. The whole question of Bishop wants to be answered and is begging to be answered in this film, much like the Terminator Series tries to reverse engineer their own on-screen technology to show you its roots. Henrikson's character is a billionaire industrialist that does it all and has the jump on most modern governments and not-surprisingly more armed than modern governments as well. But in this film, he's the aging, decrepit and frail leader that probably should've stayed home but takes no advice.

Overall, the action is good, the story is well-written and engaging. The CG is flawless and one can tell that a lot of love went into his movie from the inception of the idea and followed it all the way through the process. This is a much better movie than it was given credit for, and AVP holds it own in the world of both Predators and Aliens.

And for the record, if you have any doubts at all, this film also looks a million times better once you get a whiff of AVP:R, which was a complete and unmitigated disaster. It's a shame that movie was even made, because AVP:R did what everyone thought this film was going to do to both franchises. It just goes to show how much hard work is required to carry off something of the magnitude achieved in this film. Making a naval gazing, teen slasher movie and trying to pass it off as either an Aliens or Predator production is just downright shameful.

Well, as of this date AVP3 is silently in the works and it looks as though AVP:R is just going to be outright ignored in the storyline, and should be. Hopefully AVP3 will pick off where AVP left off.

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Huge Disappointment!!
I can't agree with the previous comparisons more. What an insulting flop! While I did enjoy the production value and the concept of the film, it's all wrong!! Give me Aliens Vs. Predator in space! The whole thing should have happened on another planet and in the future. And to think they continue to ruin this story again in AVP2!

Another point astray from the original scripts...

In the first two Predator films, the Predator comes to hunt in very warm hot climates. This tells me that these reptilian-like creatures wouldn't fair well in sub-zero temperatures.

New script please!!

Finally, the circle closes
We now know the origin of this particular ALIEN species variant; brought by the Predators as a transplant to Earth many eons prior to Columbus. Using a human as a host, a particularly survival orientated creature is produced that is stealthy, has molecular acid as blood (ALIEN pt.1),and aggressively combative and competitive: the most worthy opponent for Predator in, 'THE HUNT'. Only sometimes things don't work out as planned, and if Aliens are produced in numbers too overwhelming for the Predators to handle, they instigate their own 'final solution'. Evidently no remains of any kind of Alien are left behind, because in ALIEN, the comment is made that, "we've never encountered any species like that on LD-486, or any other planet [to Ripley]".
A vs P has a great story line and cast of characters, and the best movie of the series since , ALIENS. So grab two bags of microwave popcorn
your favorite drink, sit back and prepare for an excellent classic to be
horror flick.