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.. ;.;. ;. left to save the day. ALIEN VS PREDATOR This time around British director Paul WS Anderson (15) 100mm 0..
shouts ‘action‘. and with the majority of the film's Sam Cooke once sang: ‘lt's been a long time coming/ running time confined to an ancient temple two but I know a change gonna come.’ Well, Alien Vs thousand feet below the ice, action is pretty much all Predator has been fourteen years in the coming, ever you get. In the same vein as Anderson‘s first film, since the cucumber-shaped skull of an Alien was spied Mortal Kombat, AVP plays like a computer game —
aboard a Predator spacecraft way back in 1990 modern maze, monsters, firepower and all. Apart from some monster movie sequel Predator 2, but here the song, as muddled backstory about an age old Predators hunting
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