I bought Aliens Versus Predator Requiem recently as im a huge fan of the aliens and Predator series.. I hated the last AVP movie as it was an abomination against both series and creation itself. This one wasnt much better. it started good and strong picking up where the last one left off, predator corpse with alien inside flying away and it breaks out, kills crew causing them to crash. the story line goes down with the ship as well. one predator remains alive and sends off a distress beacon to its home world, which is odd since most the stories i read make note of them being a nomadic race mainly living on their ships in tight woven clan structures..
Oh well, assume its some special case for when someone screws up bad. that makes sense. Well.. until you consider that in the past the moment a predator is in trouble the first thing he does is activate their wrist bomb and wipe everything around out. From here they start introducing characters your suppose to develop attachment to, but are so one dimensional and stereotyped you just find yourself wondering how meat bag one is gonna die. The movie continues to stumble along focusing on the people your suppose to like, but just keep going, "Just die already damn it!" while occasionally showing you a bit of alien or predator, One thing they did do right is not throwing the monster into your face immediatly, they kept that little Alien shadowing so you get some kinda view but not a whole lot of it so your kept wondering, they keep this up all the way to the end so you never get to actualy see it in a good view.
The story continues, predator is wiping out anybody it sees with a gun and on occasion fights an alien or two, and we find that predaliens are like queens, but they dont lay eggs, they just give you a big kiss and start pumping little aliens down your throat which pop out the normal human/xeno hybrid alien later. Oh, it also eats babies. cause evidently they didnt think predator/alien hybrid was evil enough. National guard gets slaughtered, but civilians who have never picked up an assault rifle in their life can use them perfectly, goverment lures civilians to center of city and nuke the place (not regular fire bombing, but nuclear holocaust in a full mushroom cloud and everything claiming the local nuke power plant over loaded and rather then chernobyling, hiroshimaed. in the middle of the town rather then at the power plant on the outskirts of town.. (kinda like resident evil apocolypse)
Group of generic people escape with one of the predators plasma cannons which the goverment takes, and rather then keep to work on themselves gives to a ms Yutani for her company to research. this suppose to be some connection to the alien vs predator games, for which they should have their kneecaps broken. they should never even be allowed to look upon the games ever.. the referance being that in the first AVP game a group of predators is caught by the Weyland Yutani corperation which makes and researches military arms and what not.
It seemed to start good, but fizzled to little more then a big gorefest movie with excess amounts of "Spooky", which shouldnt be confused with "Boo!" Its kinda like they didnt really bother watching the original movie series, reading the books, or any other background research on the two species, or the human species for that matter.. What makes it so bad is it had potential, they started off good, but quickly went the way of quick thrill and what not.. IF you wanna see the movie i say find some really cheap rental place like those little automated rental boxes some stores got, or trick a friend into buying the movie and watch it with 'em... or of course show your complete distain for it and look away as the pirating fairie buries its loot on your HD.
And now that i've posted, watch as the board goes blank for another 2-3 weeks! Behold!!!!
