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Onboard a Predator spaceship, an Alien has gotten punchy, killing and causing the ship to crash land on cozy little Planet Earth. Unfolding with a bit of sweeping flair, bouncing from group to group of people (or aliens) as their respective stories are sketched in, AVP-R starts with dramatic promise. So when you're following in those footsteps - look out! It's like saying I'm going to make an even better Jackson Pollock painting, or Hey, let's form a band that will be more influential than The Beatles. To wit there is nothing wrong with Alien, everything within works perfectly, and nothing is there that needn't be.

Maybe I'm an extreme case, but few would argue - critics and fans - that Alien isn't an exceptionally good film certainly within the top 100 sci-fi horror films of all time.