It was hard to tell, when the first Alien vs Predator movie came out back in 2004, whether it was a good or bad thing for those of us eagerly looking forward to a fifth Alien movie.

On one hand, it was promising to see cinema’s most iconic aliens back on screen again after a near-seven year absence, and if they could bring home the financial bacon, then that too could help get things into gear at Fox. But on the other hand, the slam-bang, empty shell of a film they inhabited was as far removed from Ridley Scott’s classic as it was possible to get.

Cut to the last twelve months, where The Brothers Strause, with AvP 2, happily banged through what it took Scott most of a film to do in five minutes flat, and you couldn’t help but wonder if the proper Alien franchise was best left buried. After all, Alien Resurrection was a fairly clumsy fourth entry in the series – albeit one with some masterful moments – and its box office performance and insistence on hanging onto Sigourney Weaver seemed to signal the end of the main cinematic series.
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