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This movie is not AvP2. This movie is not a sequel. This is a stand-alone movie in the Aliens and Predator universe. Much like how Predator 2 had no ties to the first Predator movie. Oh yeah, and this movie was great.
The first half was kind of slow, but the second half was the kind of oh shit horror movie action one would want from this title. Without giving too much away-although it won't hurt because the selling point is the action, not the plot-the basic premise of this movie is that an Alien crashes on Earth, and a Predator comes to kill it. But of course the Alien reproduces like crazy. And it happens in a fairly small town. But like I said, the plot doesn't really matter much.
I enjoyed the first AvP movie, but only rated it a 3 on the NetFlix scale ("I like it"). This one I would give a 4 or 5 to. I'm not sure if it's really an "I love it" movie, but it really delivered on what it was meant to be. I've loved the Predator ever since I saw the poster at ShopKo as a child that featured a full length view of him with little flags pointing to and describing each piece of his arsenal. And each piece was used in this movie.
One complaint with the movie is that they felt the need to throw in a bunch of overdone cliche plot points, such as the uncool kid who wants to make it with the popular girl, and his estranged brother who has returned home after serving a 3 year prison sentence and wants to be good. Of course, their parents just seem to be missing in the entire film, and neither seems concerned about parents, which implies that the high school kid was living by himself... Yeah, right. Cliche plot points aside, some of them didn't end in quite the typical fashion, which was very satisfying.
The ending was a bit odd as well. Basically the movie ended, and then they tacked on one more scene, whose intention appeared to be to setup a sequel. However the scene was far too cryptic to really mean anything, and will probably be easily forgotten.
Bottom line: If you like SciFi/Horror movies then you will not want to miss this film.
The first half was kind of slow, but the second half was the kind of oh shit horror movie action one would want from this title. Without giving too much away-although it won't hurt because the selling point is the action, not the plot-the basic premise of this movie is that an Alien crashes on Earth, and a Predator comes to kill it. But of course the Alien reproduces like crazy. And it happens in a fairly small town. But like I said, the plot doesn't really matter much.
I enjoyed the first AvP movie, but only rated it a 3 on the NetFlix scale ("I like it"). This one I would give a 4 or 5 to. I'm not sure if it's really an "I love it" movie, but it really delivered on what it was meant to be. I've loved the Predator ever since I saw the poster at ShopKo as a child that featured a full length view of him with little flags pointing to and describing each piece of his arsenal. And each piece was used in this movie.
One complaint with the movie is that they felt the need to throw in a bunch of overdone cliche plot points, such as the uncool kid who wants to make it with the popular girl, and his estranged brother who has returned home after serving a 3 year prison sentence and wants to be good. Of course, their parents just seem to be missing in the entire film, and neither seems concerned about parents, which implies that the high school kid was living by himself... Yeah, right. Cliche plot points aside, some of them didn't end in quite the typical fashion, which was very satisfying.
The ending was a bit odd as well. Basically the movie ended, and then they tacked on one more scene, whose intention appeared to be to setup a sequel. However the scene was far too cryptic to really mean anything, and will probably be easily forgotten.
Bottom line: If you like SciFi/Horror movies then you will not want to miss this film.
Feeling: 
satisfied
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