First of all, I have to admit a huge (and therefore unreliable) bias in favor of this movie. I loved the John Carpenter version from the 1980s, and despite (or maybe because of) that, I'm very positively predisposed towards anyone who attempts to up the ante.
This 2011 version (which is a prequel to that Carpenter film) starts with a Scandinavian crew surveying Antarctic wastes and plunging into an icy abyss in their snow-truck.
They find an ice-bound "structure" and "specimen", which of course need further investigation. Queue the doomed follow-up team who zoom in to inspect the block of ice containing what we all know to be a killing machine / monster of obscure origin.
All the basic elements are therefore in place for a kick-ass scare-fest. And so it goes.
While there's nothing new here - in fact, pretty much every angle and nuance from the 80s version is covered / prequeled here - the cutting-edge technology used to create the alien and related effects are top notch, and make this an excellent film for everyone except Mrs. Page, who resolutely refuses to watch this kind of stuff.
It's odd, in both movies, how a group of supposedly studious scientists so quickly become flamethrower-toting Chuck Noriss's, but I guess aliens'll do that to you.
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