Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington |
4 |
...proves once again that it doesn't pay to double your trouble. |
E!
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5 |
Who wins? Not the paying customers--especially the ones with high hopes for this intergalactic letdown. |
filmcritic.com
Annette Cardwell |
4 |
...if all you really want is to see these built-to-kill bad asses fight to the death, then you're in for a treat. It's like watching a very non-scary, screeching, interstellar cockfight. |
New York Post
Lou Lumenick |
3 |
...the unsatisfying AVP isn't exciting, scary or even particularly gory--and the yawns far exceed the modest body count. |
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh |
4 |
Aliens, Predators, puny humans: The setting is different, but the running and screaming remains the same. |
Reel
Sarah Chauncey |
2 |
There is some truth in advertising, at least when it comes to the Alien vs. Predator tagline: "Whoever wins… we all lose." Yep. That about sums it up. |
Slant Magazine
Jeremiah Kipp |
5 |
It certainly delivers as a loving homage to two of our favorite monsters and their respective super-duper powers. |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
6 |
...a perfunctory showdown... |
New York Times
Dave Kehr |
6 |
...the film turns out to be no worse than most mindless summer action films, and even has some solid formal qualities thanks to the director, Paul W. S. Anderson. |
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano |
5 |
...the movie had an opportunity to raise some broader philosophical questions about the nature of evil. Does it coil deep within us or come at us with a retractable spear? Anyway, it passed on that. |
People
Tom Gliatto |
4 |
Dumb. |
LA Weekly
Tim Appelo |
6 |
...you’ll get what you paid for: popping chests. Invisible stalkers. Nicely paced chases through corridors that constantly reconfigure in interlocking stone puzzles. |
Village Voice
Ed Halter |
4 |
With perfunctory battle sequences, cardboard characters, and uncreative scare 'ems, Paul W.S. Anderson's monster mashup isn't quite terrible enough to be so-bad-it's-awesome, but his swift (if forced) plotting and amusingly shoddy costumes mean that there could be worse ways to enjoy air-conditioning. |
Onion AV Club
Keith Phipps |
4 |
...anyone expecting a decent film to lumber out of the sparks of corporate synergy that brought this Frankenmovie into existence will likely walk out feeling defeated. |
Maxim
Paul Ulane |
6 |
...it guarantees what no other summer movie can: Predators fighting a winner-kill-all battle with Aliens, and it supplies enough guilty pleasures to make it worth the trip to the theater. |
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