AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)

User Rating:

5.4/10   

Director:

Paul W.S. Anderson

Writers (WGA):

Dan O'Bannon ("Alien" characters) and
Ronald Shusett ("Alien" characters) ...

Release Date:

13 August 2004 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Tagline:

Whoever wins... We lose.

Plot:

During an archaeological expedition on Bouvetøya Island in the Antarctic ocean, a team of archaeologists and other scientists find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legends. Soon, the team realise that only one species can win.

Plot Keywords:

Alien | Predator | Pyramid | Antarctica | Ritual

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Sanaa Lathan	...	Alexa Woods
Raoul Bova	...	Sebastian de Rosa
Lance Henriksen	...	Charles Bishop Weyland
Ewen Bremner	...	Graeme Miller
Colin Salmon	...	Maxwell Stafford
Tommy Flanagan	...	Mark Verheiden
Joseph Rye	...	Joe Connors
Agathe de La Boulaye	...	Adele Rousseau
Carsten Norgaard	...	Rusten Quinn
Sam Troughton	...	Thomas Parks
Petr Jákl	...	Stone
Pavel Bezdek	...	Bass
Kieran Bew	...	Klaus
Carsten Voigt	...	Mikkel
Jan Pavel Filipensky	...	Boris (as Jan Filipensky)

Also Known As:

Alien vs. Predator (Germany) (USA) (short title)
AVP (USA) (promotional abbreviation)
AVP: Alien vs. Prédateur (Canada: French title)

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for violence, language, horror images, slime and gore.

Runtime:

101 min | 109 min (unrated version)

Country:

USA | Canada | Germany | Czech Republic | UK

Language:

English | Italian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Certification:

Canada:14 (Nova Scotia) | Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba) | Malaysia:18SG | Malaysia:U (re-rating) | Canada:G (Quebec) | South Korea:15 | Finland:K-18 (original rating) | Canada:18+ (TV rating) | New Zealand:M | Japan:U | Netherlands:16 (unrated version) | Argentina:13 | Australia:M | Brazil:14 | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Chile:TE | Finland:K-15 | France:-12 | Germany:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Iceland:14 (original rating) | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Ireland:15 | Italy:T | Netherlands:12 | Norway:15 | Peru:PT | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:18 | Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | USA:PG-13 (certificate #40968) | Greece:K-13

Filming Locations:

Barrandov Studios, Prague, Czech Republic

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

First Predator movie to feature a left-handed predator.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): Graeme Miller's description of the aurorae as being caused by protons and electrons in the atmosphere is inaccurate. Aurorae are caused by the interaction of high energy particles (usually electrons) with neutral atoms (oxygen, nitrogen...) in Earth's upper atmosphere. However, as a chemical engineer, his knowledge of atmospheric photochemistry may be expected to be somewhat rusty.

Quotes:

[first lines]
Technician: Hey. Hey, hey, come here, take a look at this.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#32.9)" (2004)

Soundtrack:

La Bamba

Low on gore *spoiler*

I like Paul Andersons work. Event, Mortal.

Especially the productiondesign (sets, costumes etc) of the films always delivers.

But it really bothers me to see him destroying good concepts over and over. Resident Evil could have been so much more. I mean. All those wicked games packed with material just begging to be filmed. And he doesn't even make the leadcharacter after anyone from the game! Let alone almost anything else either. And he calls himself a fan?!

It's sad to see him make the same mistake twice with AVP. Again, the style is cool, and the movie begins as it could go somewhere, but then fails to delivers.

One thing that bugged me the most is the obvious compromise on gore. Its so clear that the studio wanted as many teens to see this movie as possible, and therefore made it less gory then its predecessors.

wheres the blood? wheres the guts? wheres the bodyparts?

and the way he killed of bishop. he should at least be given a heroes death, taking one ore two badguys with him. his fire-stunt was pointless, and the sparing he received just before didn't fit at all.

and could we maybe see SOMEONE more make it? why kill off everyone? Just like Resident Evil!