Actually not a bad movie...

With not a lot to do the other night, I found myself watching Aliens vs Predator for the second time. When I first saw it, a long time ago, I hated it. The story seemed daft, the actors were nondescript and it was all about yawnworthy special effects.

But...

On paper, it's a superb film (apart from the daft thing about the snow guide becoming an ancient warrior), and has some top-drawer ideas (that the predators came to earth thousands of years ago, taught humans how to build and were revered as Gods, nicely suggesting the origins of early earth civilisations, the interlocking, shifting pyramid, the idea of the great hunt).

It will never be as good as Predator or Alien and Aliens, but it's a nice sit-back-and-relax film. As is always the case with such films, the premise is always infinitely better than the product, but what the hell...