The whole time watching this felt like "Violence is good VS I can't see anything". A lot of this does what the first AVP failed miserably at. It's unapologetically violent but I can barely see the gore. The effects are alright (some terrible tho...ahem, blue goo) but there was no money left for lighting. Maybe it was intentionally made this way to hide all the "strings n corners" but it's just plain unacceptable to use dark and murky in order to hide imperfections. You may not notice it but your brain does. The acting doesn't win any awards but with an Alien vs Predator movie, it doesn't have to. Overall, this movie is better than the first one and the failures of the first one cursed this into not having the budget or the cast it could've had.