AVP1 and 2, in the minds of us fans, had the overwhelming and quite impossible task to be as good or as fun as the A/P ones, which is no longer possible in this day and age...Hollywood is having a creativity crisis I had never seen before...Suffering from Sequilitis fever, they are afraid t invest in new things, new concepts, new filmmaking...just aiming at an easy buck, regardless of quality...AVP 1 and 2 are the last victims of this disease of epidemic proportions, suffering from the same lack of courage, quality writing and too technology-driven mentalities...I like visual fx, but they do not make a movie, just a tool... PWA is a commercial director (why do you think one keeps delivering him the writing and directing videogames-turned-movies...? Because they know he is no Ridley Scott or Jim Cameron...) who is capable of delivering fun movies, providing you don't dwell on them too much...
All this babbling to say this: AVP2 may or may not meet our low or high expectations, but that is no reason to be worried about it...It is just a movie supposed to be fun and entertaining, not something to dwell on, nitpicking every little thing...if i did that to every movie i've seen, i would be better off not seeing them...