Director: The Brothers Strause. Screenplay: Shane Salerno, based on 'Alien' characters by Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett and 'Predator' characters by Jim Thomas and John Thomas. Stars: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis. Released: December 25, 2007.
Summary
A small town in Colorado gets caught in the battle between two of the deadlinest creatures in the universe.
Comments
Unclear on why the aliens and predators are still fighting, when they should have retired to North Carolina by now and set up a joint operation selling alien mucus as pesticide to tobacco farmers? Same here. But AVPR deserves attention primarily because of the involvement of its co-directors, the brother effects wizards Colin and Greg Strause, famous for their work as visual effects supervisors on The Day After Tomorrow, 300, and Fantastic Four 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer. Why did they choose to make their directing debut helming an AVP movie, when they could have been working on, say, Beowulf? Wait, I think I answered my own question.
