AVPR: Aliens vs Predator - Requiem (2007)

[dragonhid60]

Cool,seen it loads before though.

[Joel007]

Hehe, he's pasted the "click here" picture rather than the link

[The_Warrior]

that was a mistake.

[scalem X]

Now that Alien's done for.

[Manyfastcars]

the trailer looked awesome but the film is apparently is a stinker...not happy

[PTeppic]

The critics don't always like what is actually entertaining...

[YuYus dumber Brother]

AVP 2 recently started playing here in south Africa. What an absolute waste of time and money. THere was almost no plot, simply the Predator killing everything in site. The aliens killing everything in site. Humans dying all over the place. Not too mention everything is in the bloody dark and rainy (that's a surprise).

[The_Warrior]

Ouch! That's sad to hear. I'm glad I haven't seen it yet.

[PTeppic]

I'll be going anyway...

[Foxbat]

Just seen a review in The Scotsman and it's been described as 'atrocious'.

[Cayal]

Originally Posted by YuYus dumber Brother

AVP 2 recently started playing here in south Africa. What an absolute waste of time and money. THere was almost no plot, simply the Predator killing everything in site. The aliens killing everything in site. Humans dying all over the place. Not too mention everything is in the bloody dark and rainy (that's a surprise).

lol anyone expecting a story line from such a movie is seriously underestimating the point of the movie (which was to see Aliens and Predators kicking butt)

[Foxbat]

The problem with films like these is you don't get a refund if they forget to include a plot.

[PTeppic]

Just got back from seeing it (as promised) and didn't think it was too bad. There won't be any acting Oscars but that's not what you want... but what you did get was a lot of Alien vs Predator. And it does what it says on the tin. Some lovely one-liners to keep things moving, plenty of action, endless dark places and rain and clearly an entire town that doesn't go to the movies... Has nobody seen "Outbreak"? The reviewers may not have given it a great score, but I go to escape the real world and so for me it ticked the boxes. As ever, start a list of characters and work out who's going to die and how...

[Harleyquin]

AVP2 was much better than the first incarnation, it had action and even a teensy bit of suspence. it was nice that they actually built up the characters before the all out carnage ensued...

The Bad: its a little too dark in places when the fighting actually starts, maybe becuase the pred-alien dosent work as well as the traditional ones, the end is a teensy bit preditcable.

the Good: they are not afraid of killing children, and some of the casual way it deals with the ensamble cast is really rather nice - if they could have gotten riddley, or Cameron for this it would have had about 100 million more budjet and been stunning - as it is it was competantly filmed and rather nicely done if your not going to get too hung up on the minor issues of some of the woden acting from minor cast members

I rather like the idea of one elite Predator rather than a whole group of them going in for the clean up and kill - it really feeds into the "supream hunter" myth.

If this is the film to end the current run of the series its definately done it proud - its a LOT better than alien 3 / 4 and imo better than predator 2 also. so for me its not a let down becuase its going back to the darker horror fantasy where it should live, where very bad things happen to good people,

I would personally liked to see some new predator weapons (theres the odd one or two), just be nice to see some other arsanal instead of the shoulder cannon - maybe a "dreadnaught" preadator :P

yes they could make a third AVP film if they wanted too but I hope they let it rest here for 10 years to let the franchice re-invent itself

[Lucien21]

A truely dreadful movie.

A film populated by a bunch of ex tv "stars" and nobodies with barely fleshed out characters that you don't give a hoot about any of them surviving.

A plot so full of holes it's transparently thin. Lone predator so keen to cover the tracks of the Aliens with his blue goo but strings up and skins a cop.

A ludicriously hilarious script "People are dying... we need guns!"

However, there were a couple of decent moments (The fight in the sewer being the best bit) and it gets kudos for upping the gore aspect and reducing the CGI monster quota with real SFX.

The whole point of these films is to emphasise the human element so that you care who lives and who dies. You could care less in this movie they appear and die virtualling in the same scene without knowing anything about them. The ones who are on screen are barely sketched, Bad boy out of prison, mother home from army, Sheriff out of his depth, Hot blonde teen to provide eye candy, young kid etc etc etc.

The seperate Franchise movies are vastly superior to this nonsense and please make Alien 5 or Predator 3 next and don't god-forbid sully the names again with another AvP low budget mess.