AVP: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR

October 2004: a satellite detects activity among the ice of the South Pole. Charles Bishop Weyland is a very rich businessman, on this occasion he involves a team of expert archaeologists and sends them to Antarctica to conduct research on this mysterious event. The group of scientists, after wandering in the cold continent, discovers the existence of dangerous and horrid alien creatures and also a trio of predators... Paul W.S Anderson ("Mortal Kombat" and "Resident Evil"), director and screenwriter of the film, makes a decent product that is based on the two monstrous species: aliens and predators. The director has prepared both characters with great care, giving them a slightly changed look from the standard. The film is a sort of confrontation of the type "Freddy Vs. Jason"; we witness the confrontation between two science fiction icons. The cast is devoid of stars, the only experienced actor Raoul Bova does not seem out of place, but seeing him in our country playing in a horror film has a certain effect. The only decent character who maintains a certain line in the film is without a doubt Lance Henriksen, who plays the role of the rich businessman. The negative note is the predictability in many sequences. As early as 1990, the two creatures had met both in the cinema and "on paper": the same year, in fact, while in the mediocre "Predator 2" by Stephen Hopkins, an Alien skull/trophy made a nice display of itself (for a few seconds) on the spaceship of a Predator, the comic book "Aliens vs Predator" came out in American newsstands, in which it was narrated how the brave Predators measured their strength by hunting hordes of aliens who had previously been concerned with "launching", in the form of eggs, on poor, unaware planets. Usually in films about aliens there is a certain dose of truculent scenes, in "Alien Vs. Predator" strangely the blood is hidden, there are no scenes that are decidedly splatter. As for the suspense, it decreases after the clash between the two species. This "Alien Vs. Predator" is a fairly entertaining film, but you have to forget highly horrific sequences. Moreover, it is not so much less than the insipid summer-time films. The positive side was the courage to pair two sagas of notable importance that have been exponents of world cinema.