Someone, please, stop me before I watch again.
$10 and an hour and forty minutes I can’t get back.
Why do I do this to myself?
Because maybe you didn’t see the first AVP?
May God forgive me, I did.
Huh…then, JJuggle, i don’t know why you do this to yourself
I watched it, it was kinda"eeh". The story wasn’t good, too much american politics themed, some effects were good.
I have seen a movie worse than Alien vs Predator: Requiem.
21. Predictable, formulaic, boring, at least 45 minutes too long and a complete waste of Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne’s time and talent.
Fixed:)
I don’t live anywhere near a video rental joint. Good thing, apparently.
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MOVIES / ON DVD / ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM
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8% 47% N/A N/A N/A 15 % Reviews Counted: 62 Fresh: 9 Rotten:53 Average Rating: 3.2/10 Consensus: Increased gore, violence can’t excuse Requiem’s lack of new ideas. The increased gore and violence over the first Alien vs. Predator can’t excuse Requiem’s disorientating editing, excessively murky lighting, and lack of new ideas. more Rated: R
Runtime: 86 mins Theatrical Release: Dec 25, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $41,668,854 Synopsis:
ALIEN VS. PREDATOR relegated its intergalactic grudge match to Antarctica, keeping most of humankind gleefully ignorant. This time around, though, the destruction takes place in suburban America, and those who have been waiting for it finally get to witness facehuggers, alien hybrids, and the dreadlocked Predator wreak some homeland havoc. Directors Colin and Greg Strause (billed as “The Brothers Strause”) don’t seem concerned with achieving the tension of the original ALIEN and PREDATOR films, instead using their visual effects backgrounds to create a steady stream of monsters, gore, and goo. Picking up where AVP ended, REQUIEM sees Predator on a homebound spacecraft when a baby alien/Predator hybrid bursts from his chest, causing the ship to crash in the Colorado woods. Several facehugger specimens escape, planting eggs down the throats of a hunter and his son. Soon, baby aliens emerge from their bodies and head for town, where ex-con Dallas (Steven Pasquale), Iraq War vet Kelly (Reiko Aylesworth), pizza delivery boy Ricky (Johnny Lewis), high school heartthrob Jesse (Kristen Hager), and sheriff Morales (John Ortiz) have their own separate encounters with the creatures. The dead Predator’s home planet receives a transmission of the alien outbreak, and a fellow denizen of his world is dispatched to clean up the multiplying aliens, eventually causing enough death and destruction for government intervention. This is essentially a slasher film (or FREDDY VS. JASON with aliens), and the characters in REQUIEM are secondary to the creature effects. Fans of the comic books and videogames will appreciate the Strauses‘ adherence to the lore of the series, but others will probably just find thrills in the copious special effects, which are frequent and well-done (if often occurring in darkness). There is also a significant amount of indiscriminant gore in this rightfully R-rated film. A government conspiracy plot thread and an ambiguous ending ensure that this battle isn’t over yet. [Less]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Ariel Gade, Johnny Lewis
Director: Brothers Strause
Screenwriter: Shane Salerno
Producer: John Davis, David Giler, Walter Hill
Composer: Brian Tyler
I guess your judgement is confirmed.
What you say it true, but frankly I blame myself.
So…, who won?
Predator has the technology, but aliens have the biology, and to be plausible, how does this fit into the pending apocalyptic war with intelligent machines, the timeline of conflict between the Terminator and the Matrix (or beyond)?
Predator. They have the writers.
Although to be fair, I can’t remember now if this one ended with a set up for the sequel as did the first one.