Twentieth Century Fox/Davis Entertainment
Released December 25, 2007
Yea, BOY! Now this is what I'm talking about for a Christmas thriller. After a calm morning with the family and friends, I took off for the theaters with high hopes. And I'm still buzzing after watching about a thousand people die, monsters eating face and the good guys finishing last in the newest Aliens Vs. Predator film.
Don't get me wrong, this movie was pretty much junk. For any snobby film critic who demands believability or insists that someone must cry in the theater for a movie to be good, they would have walked out 10 minutes in. But for the rest of us who aren't supercilious d-bags, this was everything it should be.
Gory, action-packed and VERY short, AVPR, as it has become known, was plain fun. The Brothers Strause (Colin and Greg) are incredibly well known and popular in the visual effects world but they haven't gotten a chance to direct something of this caliber yet in their career. Perennial music video directors (Nickelback, Red Hot Chili Peppers), I am actually very excited about these two young dudes as future horror/thriller flick directors. They seemed to understand what the audience wanted from this little Christmas Day miracle and delivered.
All in all, go see this film if you feel like watching MAD DUDES get messed up by some serious monsters and you don't mind a pointless script/plot that only caters to violence. Oh yea, guys, there is a really hot chick in this movie (I'll let you see if you get to see her naked).
2.5 out of 4
0 comments:
Post a Comment