Again it was a commercial and critical flop, perhaps because of the fact that it co-starred Jason Scott Lee, previously Mowgli in the live-action version of The Jungle Book, as a psychotic, genetically modified super-soldier. Which would explain why Neill appears to be channelling Clive Barker's Pinhead in the final scenes.) Even less well known, despite starring the incomparable Kurt Russell, was Soldier. (This due largely to the fact that someone apparently replaced the original ending with "Hellraiser in space" and didn't tell any of the cast except Sam Neill. And there ends the almost-birth of a new movie genre, the inter-species romcom.Īlien vs Predator was directed by Paul WS Anderson, whose other movies include the flawed but decent Event Horizon, one of his few non-video game tie-ins – which despite a strong cast, including a slimline Laurence Fishburne, was a critical and financial failure.
She grimaces as her skin burns, and then their eyes meet across the great expanse of space and time that separates both cultures, and then they kiss … or they would have if the queen alien hadn't eviscerated the woman's new friend with the pointy end of her tail. There's a touching scene near the end of Alien vs Predator when an eight-foot, fang-faced predator, using the acidic blood from the severed finger of an alien face-hugger, tenderly scorches a mark of courage and respect onto the cheek of the last human survivor.
0 kommentar(er)
