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20th Century Fox | 2007 | 100 mins | Unrated | Apr 15, 2008
For those who found 2004’s Aliens vs. Predator too lightweight in the gore-and-guns department, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem offers a marked improvement in both categories, as well as a respectable amount of rumbles between the title extraterrestrials. Set in the 21st century (which predates the story to all of the Alien features), Requiem sends a crippled Predator ship crashing to Earth in a small Colorado town; unbeknownst to the locals, the craft is loaded with H.R. Giger’s insectoid monsters, which make quick work of most of the population. As the human cast is slowly whittled to a few hardy (if unmemorable) souls, a Predator warrior also arrives to complicate matters and do battle with the Aliens, as well as a ferocious alien-Predator hybrid (dubbed a Predalien by the sci-fi and horror press). Visual-effects designers and music-video helmers The Strause Brothers (who make their feature directorial debut here) keep the action on frantic throughout, which is wise, since the dialogue and characters are threadbare at best; that should matter little to teenage male viewers, who are inarguably the film’s key audience. Fans of the Alien franchise, however, may find the offhanded nod to the series’ mythology given during the finale its sole saving grace.
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.
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Product Details
Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Johnny Lewis, Ariel Gade
Colin Strause, Greg Strause
AC-3, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
English, Spanish, French
English, French, Spanish
Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
2.40:1
1
Unrated
20th Century Fox
April 15, 2008
94 minutes
262 Reviews Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
Apology Accepted…Thank You, Brothers Strause!
By Michael Pappalardo, (Ronkonkoma, NY United States) - December 26, 2007
I absolutely hated the first AvP. That’s quite a shock, considering that anyone who knows me personally knows that I have simply adored the Alien and Predator franchises for the majority of my 25 years. But what happens when you take two of the most violent, most terrifying and most successful film franchises and slam them together? Well, the first time around we got one hour and twenty minutes of sewage on a film reel. Where Paul W.S. Andersen clearly did not care to do any research on either franchise, the Brothers Strause manage to pull a few punches and deliver us a winner!
Don’t be fooled…this is not a great movie by any means. The whole point of the film is that, if you are a fan of either of these monstrous creatures, you will not be disappointed in the action. Taking up precisely where the previous movie left off, we find our young hybrid achieving adulthood rather quickly (a faux pas that Andersen also pulled on us), and causing an incident which results in the ship crashing down to earth, in a rural colorado town. Within one day, all Hell breaks loose as the small, unassuming town is quickly beset on all side by an infestation that no exterminator would ever want to tackle…except for one. Receiving the ship’s distress call, a lone Predator is dispatched to earth to take care of the infestation, and clean up the mess that was caused by their mistake.[…]
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