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- 2007
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 34 m
- 2007
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 34 m
Summary Requiem is the continuation of the Aliens vs. Predator series based on the graphic novels.
Directed By: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Written By: Shane Salerno, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Jim Thomas, John Thomas
- 2007
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 34 m
- 2007
- TV-14
- Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
- 1 h 34 m
AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem
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6.7
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Summary Requiem is the continuation of the Aliens vs. Predator series based on the graphic novels.
Directed By: Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Written By: Shane Salerno, Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett, Jim Thomas, John Thomas
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
29
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
29
7% Positive
1 Review
1 Review
36% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
57% Negative
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem is a B movie that truly earns its B.
By Chris Nashawaty
FULL REVIEW
Provides enough cheap thrills and modest suspense to shake a few shekels from genre fans before really blasting off as homevid product.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 479 User Ratings
6.7
56% Positive
267 Ratings
267 Ratings
21% Mixed
100 Ratings
100 Ratings
23% Negative
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 479 User Ratings
6.7
56% Positive
267 Ratings
267 Ratings
21% Mixed
100 Ratings
100 Ratings
23% Negative
112 Ratings
112 Ratings
Pretty good, i hope someone makes a sequel to this or revives the whole AVP series
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This film really gets a lot of flack that it doesn't actually deserve. Okay, maybe I have a slightly different view of films than the general population, though I have discovered that my feelings of a film generally sit well with the ratings that appear on Metacritic, in most cases that is. Okay, I can sort of understand how people have reacted to some of the gore that appears in this film, and also the rather lame attempt at creating a Predalien, though I don't necessarily think that it was as bad as some people believe (though its ability to generate eggs as if it were a queen was something that sort of came out of the blue).
Look, sure, there are a few scenes in this film that do break the cardinal rules of story telling, such as never killing kids, or suddenly killing off a character with no tension or lead up whatsoever, but that didn't actually undermine my enjoyment of the film. Sure, one could argue that there is either the shock factor, or pushing the boundaries, though I still find the onscreen killing of kids to be going just that little bit too far. As for the sudden death due to friendly fire, well, that goes beyond lazy story telling. Sure, in movies like this, we expect that pretty much a majority of the characters are going to die, but the thing is there are ways to kill of a character in a cinematic way, and the more important the character is, the more cinematic the death should be. Unfortunately, at one point in this film they did drop the ball somewhat.
So, the film is pretty much set straight after the first in this series, and we have a predator that has been infested with an alien. Well, the alien escapes, causes damage to the ship, escapes in an escape pod and returns to Earth where it crashes in the Colorado wilderness. Also, the pod contains a number of face huggers, so you can be assured that this scenario is going to be set up with lots and lots of Aliens running around this small American town. Actually, this is a scenario that had yet to be explored, so I guess this is one of the reasons that I actually quite liked the film. However, before one of the predators was killed, it managed to send off a distress signal, so another predator travels to Earth to basically clean up the mess - thus we have what one could consider a true Alien vs Predator film.
Yeah, now that I think about it, that previous film really did let me down a bit, namely because of the whole idea that the predators created the Aliens to hunt, and us humans were really only fodder to fuel their hunting desires. While the pyramid under the ice was pretty cool, simply turning us into just another game reserve for a bunch of hunters really didn't do it for me to the same extent.
However, this film was much better in that regards, particularly with not only having an Alien infestation reach Earth, but also having a Predator, and a particularly will trained one at that, coming in to attempt to clean it all up. Where as the first movie pretty much had a bulk of the predators being taken out by the aliens fairly quickly, it was much better watching a seasoned hunter deal with them with no problem whatsoever. I guess that is another reason why they had to create the Predalien, even if it is only to give this particular guy a challenge. Still, with the speed at which the Alien's propogate he certainly wasn't in the position to clean the area up completely, which is why they had to end it the way they did.
Still, it is pretty clear that the only way to bring this film to a close was they way that they brought it to a close. Maybe it seemed to be one of those situations that pretty much everything was lost so they pretty much pressed the reset button. However, considering that there were a lot of scenes which were reminiscent of the earlier films, when we consider Aliens, then the ending here was rather appropriate.
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Aliens vs. Predator -- Requiem simply exists, nodding to the continuity of the larger series and opening the door for, yes, another entry in the franchise. In Hollywood as in outer space, spawn begets spawn.
By Mark Olsen
FULL REVIEW
An orgy of mindless violence, a random collection of bloody bodies, alien misanthropy, and slobbering carnage designed to bore straight into the pleasure centers of 13-year-old boys and leave the rest of us wondering when the movies got so damn loud.
By Josh Rosenblatt
FULL REVIEW
The camerawork is a smidge too shaky and the lighting/color design too dark for me to relish the Predator-on-Alien butt-kicking.
A tasteless, witless, mindlessly perfunctory bloodbath that has the discourtesy to take itself seriously. Pitting aliens against predators may be the height of frivolity, but God forbid anyone have fun with it.
Violence is great, still not enough for an alien and a predator film but still fun and entertaining, it's hard to see in the dark and could of been longer, also wish there wasn't so much Pervy camera angles on the skinny blonde girl, also wish it was a bit longer and had a bigger plot, I've seen this film 5-6 times now, I went in with high expectations for some reason when I first watched it, hated it then I had low expectations and an open mind and enjoyed it a lot more, it's a mixed bag this one, only watch if ur look for some fun violence and don't watch if your looking for an amazing story
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Hot take. This is slightly better than the first AVP. Though the movie is entirely too dark, and you won't get to see it half the time.
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The inclusion of a lot of human storylines in AVPR isn't the issue—the real problem is using the human plot to mask the lack of depth in the monster storyline, which is a fatal flaw. The flat monster designs, combined with too much focus on non-essential human characters, make it difficult for the film to be exciting.
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AvP:R was a big disappointment. Not even a single thing was good in this movie.
First of all, it was shot in too darkness. Script was terrible and boring. Acting was so bad. The direction could not be more worst. The action was bad. The movie was unnessarily stretched. Dialogues were bad. This movie is made just to make you sleep because you get high level bored.
Overall, I will not recommend this movie to anyone. First part is good. Just watch that if you want to. Leave this part.
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Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
Davis Entertainment,
Brandywine Productions,
Dune Entertainment
Release Date Dec 25, 2007
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating TV-14
Tagline This Christmas there will be no peace on Earth.
Awards
Razzie Awards
• 2 Nominations
MTV Movie + TV Awards
• 1 Nomination
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 1 Nomination