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Kindred: The Embraced (1996)
Potential Potential Potential Potential!!!!!
This series could actually have been a big hit, although based on the Roleplaying game 'Vampire - The Masquerade' it has potential both for fans of the game and for Joe public.
However it manages to fall somewhere between the two groups never managing to ensnare fans from either.
The acting is all fairly good, no outstanding performances but generally believable and the actors all manage to take the established game jargon in their stride.
Quite watchable, but if you're not a Vampire -TM fan, then it will probably leave you cold, then again if you are a Vampire TM fan...it will leave you very frustrated at what it could have been.
AVP: Alien vs. Predator (2004)
I'm sure I played this game!
This film manages to capture neither the atmosphere of the alien films or the predator films...any of them! In fact, having played and completed both of the AvP PC games I'd have to say that it compares very well to them, I remember switching vision to view heat sources and using the filter to see aliens. As a film based on a game it's fantastic...as a stand alone movie it lack anything to make it absorbing. The plot is so predictable that I managed to write it down fairly accurately before watching the film. On the whole immensely enjoyable if you played the games and liked to see that element explored, chronically predictable and yawnworthy if you were hoping to have the hell scared out of you in the manner of the films erstwhile predecessors.