AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem

Plot synopsis:
Two Predators load several live Alien facehuggers and his dead comrade onto a ship, intending to return to the Predator homeworld. Unbeknownst to all, the dead comrade was impregnated with an Alien before dying. The alien bursts from the corpse's chest, then quickly grows into a Predator-Alien hybrid (Tom Woodruff, Jr). The hybrid attacks the crew, killing them and forcing the ship to crash land in Gunnison, Colorado. Before one of the Predators is killed, he sends a distress call to his homeworld. His message is received by a veteran, hardened Predator soldier (Ian Whyte) who immediately embarks on the journey to Earth to "clean up" the situation. Meanwhile, the facehuggers escape from the crashed ship and impregnate a father and son hunting team (Kurt Max Runte and Liam James) and, later, two homeless men living in the sewer system.Dallas (Steven Pasquale) returns to Gunnison after being released from prison. He is picked up at the bus station by Morales (John Ortiz); Dallas and Morales used to be partners in crime, but Morales is now the county's sheriff. Also arriving home is Kelly (Reiko Aylesworth), after being deployed overseas as a soldier of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division. Her husband, Tim (Sam Trammel) is overjoyed to see her, but their daughter, Molly (Ariel Gade), is unsure of how to react to her mother's return. She does, however, enjoy the night-vision goggles Kelly brought home as a souvenir. Meanwhile, Dallas's younger brother Ricky (Johnny Lewis), is beaten up by Dale (David Paetkau) and his friends. Ricky has been flirting with Dale's girlfriend, Jesse (Kristin Hager). The fight is the last straw and Jesse breaks things off with Dale. She invites Ricky to go skinny-dipping with her at the high school's pool later that night.The Predator arrives and scavenges weapons from the downed vessel then destroys it. He uses an acidic fluid to destroy the corpses of the alien's current victims as well as the facehuggers he finds. When Deputy Ray stumbles upon the scene, the Predator kills him and skins his corpse. When Morales and Dallas find Ray's body, they realize that something horrible is stalking the town.The Predator tracks the aliens to the city's sewer system. He dispatches several but is caught off-guard by the Predalien. The Predalien and other aliens escape into the city and begin to attack the citizens. The Predator follows one to the city's nuclear power station. In the ensuing battle, the station is damaged and the city loses power. Morales realizes that the entire county is in danger and orders the town evacuated. He also requests National Guard assistance. The Predalien realizes he can use fertile women to create hordes of aliens without needing facehuggers. At the local hospital, it injects alien larvae into all of the pregnant mothers in the maternity ward. Within hours, a small army of aliens has been created.At the high school, Ricky's swim date with Jesse is interrupted when Dale and his friends arrive and attack Ricky. Before they can drown him in the pool, an alien arrives and kills Dale's friends. Jesse, Ricky and Dale escape and find Morales and Dallas at the power station. They tell them what has happened, which Morales and Dallas largely confirm by visiting the school. They don't find any corpses, however, as the Predator has already been there to kill the alien and destroy the evidence. Morales, Dallas, Ricky, Jesse and Dale realize they need weapons to protect themselves and break into a local sporting goods store. They are joined by Kelly and Molly, who have been attracted by the flashing lights on Morales's squad car. Earlier, an alien had attacked their home, killing Tim.Morales makes contact with the arriving National Guardsmen. All he hears, however, is the sound of them being slaughtered by the aliens. Then aliens appear in the sporting goods store. However, the Predator has followed them there and kills the aliens. Dale's face is melted off by alien acid blood but the others escape. They make their way to the scene of the Guardsmen slaughter. Kelly knows how to drive the tanks, so they all climb in. Morales contacts Col. Stevens (Robert Joy), who tells them to head to the center of town to be airlifted out of town. However, the plan is not to airlift anyone to safety but instead to use the townspeople as bait to draw the aliens to one area and then destroy everyone with a small nuclear bomb. Kelly realizes that they will all die if they do as Stevens tells them but Morales doesn't believe her. When they encounter a number of other people headed towards the center of town, Morales joins them; Kelly, Molly, Dallas, Ricky and Jesse head for the hospital, where they will use the medevac helicopter to fly to safety.The hospital is overrun with aliens, and the Predator arrives to destroy them. Making their way up the stairs, the humans run into the middle of a Predator-Alien battle. Jesse is impaled by the Predator's flying daggers. Enraged, Ricky attacks the Predator with a machine gun but before the Predator can kill him, the aliens knock it down an elevator shaft. Ricky is wounded but will live. The Predator leaves behind a pulse rifle, which Dallas picks up. They make their way to the roof, but aliens block their path to the helicopter. As Dallas uses the pulse rifle to hold off the aliens, Kelly gets the helicopter started. Just as the aliens are about to surround and kill Dallas, the Predator arrives and kills off the remaining aliens. Dallas boards the helicopter and they fly away as the Predator and Predalien duel to the death.At the center of town, the humans are surrounded by aliens. Looking up to the skies in hopes of seeing rescue helicopters, Morales instead sees a jet fighter drop a bomb; he realizes Kelly was right as the town and all of the remaining aliens are incinerated, including the Predator and Predalien who are locked in each others death grip. Kelly manages to pilot the helicopter to a fairly safe crash landing. They are surrounded by other Colorado National Guardsmen of the U.S. Army Special Forces who disarm them and provide medical care to Ricky. They confiscate the Predator plasma rifle from Dallas.Col. Stevens takes the Predator pulse rifle to Ms. Yutani (Francoise Yip). She tells him that the earth is not ready for the technology it represents. Col. Stevens knows Yutani doesn't want the technology to be used on Earth.

Tags: violence, cult, murder, sadist

Review:
As warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival and they find themselves caught up in a battle between the two legend beings .Stirring but inferior sequel with plenty of thrills , chills , suspense , disgusting special effects and lots of blood and gore .
It was at one time hoped to include scenes of the Aliens' home world ; conceptual art was created and it was even storyboarded to be used as the closing shot of the movie, but ultimately the idea was dropped in favor of using it in a potential third film .
Now this sequel was so badly filmed and edited, made worse by the dull, wooden acting and the Predator's 'What the hell' incoherent MO and Aliens' 'mere cannon fodder-ish' portrayal...It has a less budget than AVP and given the story and setting, it required two or three times that...The movie falls more to the lower teen slasher movie genre, with gratuitous violence shown inflicted on pregnant women, newborn babies (though only implied) and a child, with a chestburster coming out of him...
So, this is a step backwards regarding AVP in every way, from script to technical issues, and not a good prognosis for an Alien 5 or Predator 3 at all...The money this movie makes will be the judge of that...Although, given the fact that since ALien 3, the movies have been decreasing in terms of quality, I find it difficult to believe that someday, down the road, we will be having any more movies featuring these two creatures on their own...which is how they work best...Only time (together with a good script surfacing and an adequate budget with it) will tell....
I didn't read any reviews of AvPR before going to see it, as I feel they skew the experience, but afterward I read several to see how the movie was received, and I'm disappointed at the number of people who are bagging this movie, when simply compared to previous Alien titles.I loved the original Alien movies, 1 & 2 especially, not so much 4 and I disliked 3, and while AvP1 wasn't a smash hit, it had the elements and hallmarks present that made the original Predator and Alien movies a hit, and the same can be said for AvPR.The movie is slanted toward horror and gore, rather then the suspense that made the originals so unique, and while thats not my cup of tea, I did enjoy the action and thrill of the movie that was there.When you compare AvPR to the original Alien or Predator movies, I agree that it in no way stacks up, but thats comparing it to the best in the business.
This was a decent Horror flic with great CGI and several plot twists, was it a credit to the Alien or Predator franchise, no - but you'd want to make one hell of a movie these days to compare to a classic of that caliber..
I really, really don't understand how that movie could get a rating bigger than 4 here on IMDb. It's simply a huge mess, and I have to admit that I actually liked AvP 1: Close to no story, okay, I can live with that, but at least they got to the point pretty much at once.
After the stupid premise has been presented there is well over half an hour of stupid and unfitting teenager clichés, dumb as hell dialog and close to nothing else, except for a few Alien scenes that feel like an excuse to have that first half of the movie and Predator scenes that make you ask yourself whether those guys making the film even watched any other Predator movie or just didn't care enough to be bothered.After that, that crap-fest finally gets to the point where the Predator starts attacking the Aliens, or at least pretends doing so.
There are a few sad examples of earlier special-effects people who also thought they can bring it as a director:Spawn by Mark Dippé, Starship Troopers 2 by Phil Tippett, The Fly II by Chris Walas and some other more.Maybe next time, in 5 or 6 years, when it's all water under the bridge, they choose a really talented director, who makes a totally new beginning of it all with a higher budget of 150 million dollars, a fascinating script and some really strong actors.I want a huge difference between the movies like it was between Batman & Robin and Batman Begins!.
I am not even going to dream of comparing Requiem to any of the Alien or Predator series' movies,this is a HORRIBLE TEENAGE B-HORROR FOOTAGE SET IN AN American SMALL TOWN NO ONE CARES ABOUT.AvP1 at least had heaps of handcrafted art carved into the movie sets,it had bags of eye-candy not previously seen in any of the original movies - but was ruined by unconvincing characters/acting.Requiem takes bad acting to the lowest imaginable level,and it also lacks in every other department just as much...it's a sacrilege to include alien and predator suits in this kind of rubbish..
They just seem like someones desperate attempt to make money off of the good name of the original aliens and predator films but instead of delivering a well thought out, quality production, they came up with the predaturd.The original Alien/Aliens/Predator/Predator 2 films were great, they redefined the horror/thriller genre by inventing these insane (and yet still believable) creatures who took the role of the 'serial killer', as opposed to a human.
AVP2 Wasen't as bad as i had been told but there was still something lacking that made both AVP movies not live up to their original standards it felt as if two movies were kinda spliced together with the Alien vs Predator battles happening outside the town and near the ending happening in the town and watching the town people get on with their daily life it didn't feel like a alien or a predator movie but still i did like the fact that only one Predator could take on so many foe's and made it feel again the Predator is a one man army but the Predator is seen too much for my likening unlike in the 1st Predator movie were he is not scene fully to nearer the end and the main characters are really underdeveloped and give me little to no interest at all about their fate and it feels like the story was kinda rushed throughout but despite this not a bad movie to watch and get some friends round and watch with a few beers probably better to rent this movie rather than buy it and blu ray really makes a difference.
Thats not the iconic setting you come to expect from an Alien movie or the true AVP series which are the comics and games which are set in the same murky dark settings of the Alien films.
I just can not get over that, you have a great series of AVP comics and games that helped to create a truly great setting ,atmosphere,locations, characters and some great stories but no they went with the biggest horror movie cliché of all setting it in a small suburban town ignoring all the potential the AVP series and giving us a cheap horror flick, honestly sometimes when i heard an alien creep up on someone i almost expect Jason Voorhees to kill them instead.But lets talk about the Aliens and Predators, what can i say about them?
The Predator is best example...hes meant to be hunting the Aliens but they manage to get the best of him a lot in the this, sneaking up behind him and if you know anything about Predators you'd know there's no way this would happen, they're highly trained killing machines and i just thought the whole thing was like cops and robbers, the Predator is the cop after the Aliens (the robbers) and they go around town running riot out witting him on every turn and quite frankly hes a joke, he cant even hit them with his shoulder cannon.The fight scenes...they where none in this movie, it was so dark i could never make any of it out.
Even a short exchange between Ripley and Newt only available on the extended edition of Aliens is milked for a sick joke in a particularly unpleasant scene in a maternity ward.All this could be forgiven if it was at least entertaining in a brain dead kind of way, but the titular beasts aren't given enough screen time, and much of the action consists of people shooting in the dark at shadows off-camera.
The film-makers probably think they're cleverly wrong-footing us, the way that Ridley Scott did by killing off Tom Skerritt's character in Alien, but they'd be wrong, they're just rubbish.I haven't even started on the script and cast of characters, they're both laughable.Anybody with any influence in Hollywood, I implore you: never let Beavis and Butthead behind the camera again.I can only hope that many people lost their jobs after this debacle and returned to lives of crushing drudgery.
And in fairness there is a part of it that is enjoyable purely as a short of hybrid of the slasher movie (people picked off one at a time) and sci-fi.Fortunately, as a normal person, I do not come to this film with the concerns over whether really one predator could take on so many aliens or who should win really  and the time I save by not wondering how Batman or Superman would fare in similar fights allows me to watch the film.
What I was hoping for was a darker film than the original, something that is less an action buddy movie with a predator/human combo but more an exciting and thrilling sci-fi; not an unfair expectation since this is also what the Strause brothers said they wanted to make.Unfortunately what this translated into was just the studio going for a higher rating in a way to tell fans that it is not the kids movie that the first one was perceived as.
All these failings are irritating but the action just plods along and is distracting enough to carry it but the thing is, with any visual media it always help to be actually able to SEE what is happening.It has been said countless times before but for some reason someone decided that to make it more menacing and dark, the film itself needs to be dark  because, hey, the Alien movies in particular are all about what is in the shadows.
I don't know if either can even be saved now that they've had this done to them.If you're the most rabid Alien or Predator fan you might want to see this movie just to witness those creations on the big screen again, but if you genuinely admire and enjoy such great films as Predator, Alien and Aliens then you'll probably come away feeling slightly sickened, if only because the satisfaction you were looking for isn't to be found in this film..
How wrong I was!Okay, first of all, there's no story, no feelings, no sense at all in fact, just a cliché-ridden bloodbath where annoying people, random aliens and a very stupid predator muck up each other's bodies for the sheer, unadulterated hell of it.Secondly, this was supposed to be a horror film.
And the gallons upon gallons of blood sloshed over every available surface, obviously an effort to please the computer-game-junkie thirteen-year-old males this movie was meant for, made me go 'Oh come on...' instead of 'Aargh!' So, to put it in a nutshell, if you want to waste an hour of your life, go do something else, and don't even bother watching this appalling excuse for a sci-fi horror film..
But it was the worst movie ever of the alien and predator history, including the separate ones...it was so bad that 1 month ago on the internet released a fan movie called "alien vs hunter" I think something like that...it was a "b" movie...I can tell you this that I enjoyed more the fake "b" movie than the original AVPR.
It maybe a teenage monster-slasher- horror flick, but considering its lineage this is a crap offering.The beautiful detailing of Geiger's art in the Alien series, Arnie and Glover's excellent performances in the Predator series, even the fun of the puzzles in AVP 1 are all lost in a maelstrom of flying limbs and no subtly.Sure it'll do with a pizza as a laugh but as part of one of the best sci-fi series ever - I think not.
Don't go in expecting a life-altering experience; go in expecting two warring alien races, complete with all the requisite carnage and mayhem, and you'll be just pleased.I'll leave the more shocking moments to other reviewers to divulge, but just be bear in mind: the events aren't actually happening, and everything that happens just makes it all the more believable that these aliens/predators are just as brutal as we've come to expect.All in all, another reviewer said it perfectly: it's a terrible film and an awesome movie..
It took a completely different turn from the first AVP movie, it's not a bad idea that they took Alien and Predator and put them in the up class suburbs, but from the idea of the first one explaining their reasons for existing, this was just an average and predictable horror sequel.
Because he is ticked off at the Alien, I guess for starting the party without him, lol, just kidding, actually for killing some of his friends.AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem isn't the worst movie by any standards, it's still pretty cool with a lot of the visual effects and the fight sequences between Alien and Predator are so cool to watch.
Predator, the cast is the thing that ruins the film and just seems like they were not well developed, I know it's horror, but the original Alien and Predator films had characters, that you cared about and wanted to win.
After the 2004 debacle that was the original AVP, consumers of good movies were left with a bad taste in their mouth and still hungry for the true showdown between Aliens and the Predator.
"Alien vs Predator: Requiem" is in my opinion a good entry to the alien and predator franchises, and I found it to be an entertaining movie despite the fairly low rating it had scored on IMDb.I especially liked the glimpse we were given of the home-planet of the predator species.
There is hardly no suspense in the movie, the action scenes fail absolutely (the Alien and Predtor nearly black fighting in the night or darkness - its left for you to figure out what happens), stupid dialogues, the worst of worse actors.
Like the title - The worst movie in both Alien and Predator franchise!
Why film companies like to spoil movie plots before people even see them is beyond me, and it certainly ruins the movie going experience when you know one of the main plot points before it happens.The main monsters, the Predator and the Predalien, are the only two things the movie has going for it, but they still aren't enough.
I found myself stifling laughter throughout the movie.If you want a newer, more enjoyable monster movie, watch something like The Descent or maybe go see The Mist, but don't waste your time or money sitting through this new disgrace to the Alien and Predator franchises.
At times it was like they thought the audience never saw an Alien or Predator movie.
With such great characters like the Alien and Predator, how could the movie miss so badly.
Sure, it has a very straightforward plot (predators aren't known for their complex motives or multifaceted personalities), and neither the writing nor acting are going to win any Oscars any time soon, but as a sci-fi action/thriller, it delivers all that it advertises.I'm not sure what kind of portrayal of the alien xenomorphs people were expecting; they're pretty one-dimensional murder machines in all of the franchise movies.
Not once during the film did i feel suspense as the director seemed to not want to hide the aliens and had the predator running around like some madman.
(especially the sheriff, the cheerleader & 2 boyfriends who wanted her)In trying to "honor" all the other Alien & Predator movies that came before it; these guys ended up regurgitating all the key moments from each film.
I enjoyed The Predator & Alien Action Loved the Fights but I could care less about the Subplot not as good a characters just meant for the meat grinder An OK Sequel The Subplot Drags The Film .
Set in Gunnison Country where a Predator spaceship carrying a hybrid alien crashes, the film continues the war between the two iconic-but-now-turned-idiotic species with stupid humans caught in between.Terribly directed by Brothers Strause, the movie marks a new low for any cinema that has featured either creatures so far and is an absolute trash from start to finish.
The directors appear to have love and affection for the franchises they are building off of, but the script doesn't seem to understand what made either film great in the first place, amounting to a b-grade sci-fi monster mash-up that marks a low point in the 30+ year history it draws from.With bad characters, bad dialog and nothing to justify its existence outside of sheer goriness and impressive creature design, "Aliens Vs. Predator - Requiem" is pure guilty pleasure material.
The one thing you can say about previous alien and predator films is that they have always been character driven, thats where the Strause brothers tripped up.
(I know, its actually more complicated than that, but thats what it looks like).Why do all AVP-Directors (The Brothers and Paul W.S. Anderson) pretend to be die-hard Alien & Predator Fans,if they obviously do not understand what the original movies were about?