With a spike in the gore quotient, hardcore fans left baying for Paul WS Anderson’s blood after the first AVP may be happy. Those interested in anything more than a barely comprehensible bitch-slap between two ill-treated icons should take a rain-check.
Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating] for violence, gore and language.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: 18-01-2008
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,... 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. [More]
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Starring: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Ariel Gade, Johnny Lewis
Screenwriter: Shane Salerno
Producer: John Davis, David Giler, Walter Hill
Composer: Brian Tyler
DVD Info
Release:
Mar 4, 2009
Blu-ray Disc Features:
- Keep Case
- Widescreen
Audio:
- 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
- Disc 1: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM - Rated; Unrated Versions
Additional Release Material:
- Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (w/Optional Commentary)
- Audio Commentaries - 1. Colin Strause, Greg Strause - Co-Directors; Shane Salerno - Screenwriter
- 2. Tom Woodruff, Alec Gillis - Special Effects
- Trailers - 20th Century Fox High Definition Theatrical Trailers
Interactive Features:
- BD-Live Portal
- D-Box
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Additional Text - Wayland Yutani Archives
- Disc 2: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM - Digital Copy
Reviews
At best the movie's an unpretentious pile-up of B-movie clichés, but why "Requiem"? Time to give it a rest now.
The world's most illogical and boring action-horror grudge-match between two dull trademarked franchise monsters is back on.
This feature directing debut from former visual effects men Colin and Greg is enjoyable enough in rudimentary tension/splatter/scrap terms, but it still doesn't live up to its heritage.
Scriptwriter Shane Salerno’s dialogue is unspeakable, the visceral horror all too familiar, and the ideas distinctly second-hand.
Too underlit to qualify as splatter, too bloodless to qualify as fun, too unaware of its own idiocy to be enjoyed Grindhouse-style, AvP:R is a real education in the finer stratifications of badness.
Does Alien vs. Predator: Requiem spell the end of the dual-monster franchise? Let's hope so
Well, there's not much to see here. And I mean that literally.
Un spectacle insipide, ennuyant à mourir et de très mauvais goût
Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem is literally shrouded in darkness, and the only explicable reason for this pitch-black visual schema is that the filmmakers understood it was better if no one could see the **** they were shooting.
...wastes no money on stars, no time on plot or character, and no lighting on the set...
Again, the Aliens are slapdash in their rampaging and the Predator is relatively moral, holding to strict rules of hunting.
... why not just film an intergalactic reality show where eager young predators can prove their worth for fabulous prizes by surviving 24 hours on the alien homeworld?
The Old School nondigital face-huggings and chest-burstings don't compensate for the Sci Fi network dialogue and story logic.
Fez com que eu percebesse que, de repente, estar no meio de uma guerra entre duas criaturas mortais pode não ser um destino tão horrível como eu imaginava. Ao menos, eu estaria livre de acompanhar esta série.
The mechanics of it are so aggravating that by the time you get to an actual throw-down, it's all but impossible to care about how poorly lit the rumble is.
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