AVP: R may not quite have the best characters, best development, while being protrayed by the most memorable of the actors, but it'll reign supreme forever over AVP. With that, while having better three-act layout, and a sense of taking its time with the characters while cutting to the chase with the monsters and action, this will sure be among my favorites films of 2007. Maybe it's a good thing AVP film was made? They decided to make the pit which both franchises are at a low point, just to be revived by the better. Who knows? If this film was the first AVP we may have hated its guts as well.