Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

An alien spacecraft crashes in the Californian wilderness, releasing a giant spider-praying mantis creature which promptly begins killing anyone in its path. As the surviving members of the local town attempt to fight it, a mysterious alien Hunter also appears, trying to kill the creature, but finding plenty of time to hunt some of the local humans as well.The Asylum is a production company based in California which has become infamous amongst the genre community for its 'mockbusters' – ultra-cheap generic rip-offs of major Hollywood blockbusters in a cynical attempt to make some easy money out of fooling videostore customers by using deceptive titles & packaging. They hit their stride in 2007, which was the year that they started making these 'mockbusters'. In the case of AVH: Alien vs. Hunter, the Asylum decided to pre-empt the anticipated success of ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM. But with the source film bombing badly at the box office, the prospects of AVH went to the gurgler fast.There has been some controversy surrounding the making of AVH – it seems that credited director Scott Harper was not actually responsible for making the film. If the numerous rumours circulating around are to be believed, Harper just showed up to shooting & did practically nothing, standing around playing games on his iPhone while the assistant directors (Justin L. Jones & Xavier S. Puslowski) did all the work. If this is true, then Harper doesn't deserve the credit for making the film.With all that going on, it's a surprise that upon watching the film, AVH actually seems more coherent than initially expected. The film will never been seen by anyone as a classic – in fact it is pretty weak, with a paper-thin plot & some bad scripting. The visual effects are a mix of suit-work & cheap CGI that doesn't look terribly convincing. There is also some confusion in the Asylum's in-house effects company over the visual effects needed, with a couple of shots not making sense. The costumes look cheap – the Hunter's outfit looks like a cobbled-together armour suit with a cracked welder's mask & an upside-down wok for a hat. The alien creature looks slightly better.As for acting, the cast give a mixture of reasonable & purely reactive performances. William Katt, Dedee Pfeiffer & Randy Mulkey are the only professionals of the bunch while everybody else either doesn't know what they are doing or giving strictly amateur performances.

Oh, brother, The Asylum was at it again, this time aping "Alien vs. Predator". They were able to lure William Katt and Dee Dee Pfeifer into this pale imitation to AvP, with inferior special effects and extremely limited set locations. The cast caught in the middle of this mysterious hunter, equipped with a unique armor, bicker and gripe with each other throughout the whole ordeal, trying to find a method of escape in getting down a mountain that is containing them. The alien is this spider creature(..a really cheap failure, quite a groaner)that runs around looking for prey, and it's eye sight(..there's often a dependency on point-of-view) is this strange green lens the filmmakers put over their camera lens. Katt is a reporter who was just out jogging when a deputy picks him up to investigate a call, discovering a damaged space craft which landed. This is where Katt rushes to tell others, resulting in the aligning group seeking a way off the mountain to seek assistance, finding themselves in the middle of a combat between two seemingly alien forces. As the twist at the end proves, the hunter may not be who it seems.A great deal of the film either has the cast running around in the woods or walking within a tunnel system trying to either escape or defend themselves. A small militia join up with a very distraught Katt, hoping their human artillery can stand a chance against the dangerous hunter and the predatory alien spider monster. Dee Dee isn't bad to look at for the running time, but she's about all Alien Vs Hunter has going for it. There are a lot of awkward character exchanges and some really off-the-cuff dialogue, not to mention the acting is suspect(..really what can a cast do with such material?). It seems that Katt and Dee Dee knew what kind of movie they were stuck in, toying(.."toiling" might be a better word) around with some of the dialogue(..though, in my opinion, a lot of the dialogue looks ad-libbed). What gore is present is ineffective, but the computer effects for the alien spider are just a major drag. The hunter has your basic special forces suit with extra bells and whistles to make it look futuristic. Just rent the real deal, with far superior visual effects, and skip this ludicrous, trifling sci-fi trough of cinematic waste.

I my opinion this movie "screams" awful from the moment you read the title. Then when you see William Katt got the lead role it is just begging for a quick death. Men in rubber suits and poor effects is the least of this movie's worries. The dialog and overall script was written by monkeys. No that would be insulting to monkeys.For example, in one scene an actor expresses concern that his wife is "out there" with the aliens. So his very next suggestion is they should all stay put and fortify they would stand a better chance to survive.Another scene the lead played by Katt says he knows a safe route. Next you know he is getting another cast member killed off in the sewars tunnels.People insist it is a bear attacking even though they have seen a giant spider creature. After all we all know about those 8 legged bears. Throughout the entire movie we are beaten over the head with cliché dialog and banter about what would be the next best idea or route to take or which missing person to save.Early on in the picture a black girl wants to find her mama but Katt wants her to take the car and be safe. The dialog is stereotypical and pointless. Then there is the disgruntle local hunter who has a grudge against Katt's character for writing a bad review about him. I don't know many hunters who care much about newspaper reviews.Well the movie aired as the Sunday afternoon movie on the SyFy channel and I just felt it needed to be said, this movie is truly awful.

What? There's no zero? Rating this abomination of a movie a "one" is really reaching! Acting -- one of the reviewers said William and Dee Dee were fine. On a scale of one to ten, I'd give the portrayers of the Hunter and the Alien a two, and those of the humans about half that. Can I say **UGH!** **Yeech!**? The only thing worse than the acting was the script (script?). Well, maybe the costumes of the Hunter and Alien. I suppose the Alien was a hand puppet -- it took me half way through to figure out that the thing which looked a bit like Rocket Man from the Moon with teeth, was really attached to the giant arachnid (well, I didn't actually count the legs...).Oh yes, script. We have a cadre of idiots running from a couple (at least) of murdering, man-munching monsters, and they dawdle along like kids on there way to detention. Sometimes they are crawling through a supposed tunnel (you can't see the ceiling, but they're on their hands and knees so I suppose the audience is supposed to suppose it's low) and sometimes walking upright in a "sewer" that would make the Paris underground resemble an ant farm. This meander starts in some redneck's basement/cellar and winds up -- oops! -- in the Hunter's, or is it the Alien's spaceship? I can't tell because it contains a dead alien and the Hunter's spare cannon.The best shots are overhead of the forest. Interestingly, sometimes it's green and sometimes it's brown... One might say "tempus fugit," but since all the activity (I won't dignify this excreta by calling it action) occurs in a single day, one might suppose it took enough time to produce this mess that a change of seasons obtained. Hopefully not. If they spent more than a day filming this twaddle someone ought to be fired. Or maybe someone just ought to be fired.I was never sure whether the idiotic behavior of the cast -- and the insipid dialogue (upon receiving the Hunter's spare weapon, William says, "I've never seen anything like this before) was intentional humor, reflected the writer's opinion of the average person, or reflected the writer's person. They try to give it some play at the very end when the Hunter, who turns out to be human, says the local planet has been Terra-formed, implying that what we've just seen was not "life on earth" but some low grade mimic. I'm betting this was added by the producers when they saw the dailies and said "Oh my God!"