paul anderson make movie that start off incredibly well . every time i see a paul w. s. anderson movie and i watch the first twenty minute and think hey and this might actually be good . he raise expectation and get you excite and pull out all of his best trick . and then somewhere around 30 minute in and it turn to garbage . if you think about it and all of his movie from event horizon to resident evil suffer from this malady . avp be no exception . in the opening scene and i watch an incredibly stylized alien like silhouette turn into a satellite . and then it cut to a high tech lab and and then out to the desert and and then out to some glacier . a paul anderson assemble his team of protagonist and the movie have a distinct close encounter of the third kind or jurassic park vibe . in fact and now that i think about it and it have all the trapping of a spielberg movie . the cherry on top of the sundae be when the wealthy tycoon weyland and who be organize the search party and turn out to be the actor who play bishop in alien . i be on for the ride . i grip my popcorn and i buckle in . i think paul anderson have finally come into his own a a filmmaker . and he couldn not have pick a good time . here be the unification of two of my favorite science fiction or horror character . if ever paul anderson be go to step up and be a real director and the time be now . i smile and i squeeze my date hand . this be gon na be great . and then and it start to suck . gradually at first and almost a if anderson be think that if he just give u a great opening we might forget about the fact that the rest of the movie be terrible . i figure thing be go badly when the hero enter a pyramid that they have find thousand ( million . ) of foot beneath an arctic whaling station . hokey and yes . but i be still buy it . and then and our hero venture inside this ancient edifice and be trap inside the pyramid because they decide to take some predator gun . you would think these people never saw raider of the lose ark . i keep wait for someone to bust out a bull whip . the only thing that be miss be the fly dart and the big boulder . at this point in the movie and i get a really vivid mental picture of paul anderson stand in his living room and with dvd copy of alien and predator and raider of the lose ark and cube lay out on the floor and and he stand there take a leak on all of them and laugh maniacally . i be not kid . that image flash through my head . anyway and so when i finally shake myself out of it and there be people that be get attack by face hugger that be bullet time a la the matrix ( and every other action movie since ) . i mentally add the matrix to the dvd on paul floor and cover with urine . these same people give birth to alien a mere five minute later . suddenly the gestation period for alien shorten by like three day . i think that might have make me angry than anything . i just want to drive to paul anderson house in the middle of the night and grab him and say and there be rule to think about here and paul . not a lot of them and but you do need to respect the movie that come before . i understand that it make your job a little tough because you want to tell a story about an alien and and you need to have it bust out of somebody chest pretty early in the story . but youre get pay a lot of money to figure out a clever way of make it work . but even so and i keep watch . i have come this far and i need to see the title bout . i watch clunky predator with ridiculous dreadlock fight with equally clumsy alien . all i could think be and gee and i bet it hot inside those suit . you could practically smell the latex . still and there be some fun moment and so i keep watch . and then the protagonist become best friend with a predator and they go off to hunt aliens together like butch and sundance . all of this come at great expense a you be force to watch our heroine play a goofy game of charade with the predator . when predator start act and you know youre in trouble . the end fight scene with the alien queen mum be pretty good . i actually start to enjoy myself again in the last ten minute of the movie . and then i remember that i felt the same way about resident evil . that last shot with milla in the city be great . it make me rethink my p. w. s. anderson theory . maybe he make movie that begin and end really well and and then fill them with process meat . if i ever choose to see another one of his movie and i be go to walk out after twenty minute and go get something to eat and and then come back for the last ten and see how i feel about it .