This is an old review I was going to do a while ago but never got around to it? enjoy:
The Alien Verse Predator movies has always struck my ?so bad it?s bad but there?s gore and neat CGI so I?ll watch it at the movies? nerve and when Alien Vs predator Requiem hit the cinema I merrily decided to watch the first session off the truck. Before you say, ?PurpleRain you Gonzo bastard you, you hate Hollywood? I only hate Hollywood when they try to be serious with themselves. When they make a movie say, evil creature X vs unspeakable horror Y containing giggling hot chick Z, I generally like it more as a popcorn viewing good time. Before going in I expected a few things: violence, action, a lot of people dying and some cool scenes that I'll replay in my head but replace the hero with me and throw in an attractive yet hardcore lady, or two in my personal fantasies while on the train to college. Anyways, watching the movie I got all of the above plus more.
The movie opens straight after the first. The Predalien slaughters everyone on the ship, it crashes in some peaceful American town (perfect setting for 90% Hollywood horrors) where everyone knows each other like the feel-good TV show, The Gilmore Girls, and Aliens escape into the wilderness. Then I saw it, the ultimate movie killer? a child. Whenever in Hollywood movies they bring on a child actor, he immediately becomes the films hero and saves the day even if he was battling Jesus himself! I planted my face firmly but gently in my palm and proceeded to kill of my own brain cells wondering why the hell the producers would do this to us. Then suddenly something happened; the kid died. Slapped by a face hugger, the little shit was no more. What!? This can?t be! It was like I was told throughout my childhood that the sky was green then finding out it?s actually blue. It put me right off? but in a good way.
As the movie continued the child slaughter didn?t end. It was like the director had a burning hatred for his younger man. Cute little bundles of joy and happiness were consumed to feed the ever-growing hive colony! Another scene showed three (not one but three!) chest buster aliens rip apart a pregnant lady.
The action in Requiem was a partial let down to me. I was expecting the Predator army at least tenfold of what they had last time but instead the Predator home world sets off one Predator, that can only be described as one hardcore mo fo, to wipe out the Alien race before they spread and likely eradicate all life in the galaxy. I guess I do like him; I would have preferred more of a full out war but unlike the last batch of pontsy teenage Predators in the last AVP, this one knows how to kick arse and chew bricks. Chuck Norris would shit himself in a fight with it.
The first hour manly consists of aliens basically tracking down and laying chest busters into people that society wouldn't miss like bums and kids (those crafty aliens). The movie spends so much time dawdling around the aliens building their army that you kinda forget that the movie is about a Predator as well. Then he lands (dun dun dun!). Some kind of cover up expert I think, destroying all evidence that aliens and predators ever existed. He'll carefully melt away the bodies with some kind of blue acid and hide in the shadows... this was up to the point were he kills, skins and hangs up a local police officer. Subtle.
Anyway, this goes on for a bit of cat chase mouse, and cat cover up mouse tracks, before getting to the balls to the wall action, gore, death, gut, sexiness, death, lasers, baby eating and general gut wrenching awesomeness that I didn't expect from it. Aliens went around the town killing anything that decided to live, and the predator went around killing aliens and people that got in his way. The gore was through the roof in the usual Aliens and Predator fashion and some pretty kickarse fight scenes between the two ensued. This is what you came to expect from the franchise isn?t it? Something I noticed was that it was less of a sci-fi action as the last and more of a horror themed sci-fi.
So to point out more of the obvious I?ll get to what?s wrong with it. Well firstly, it?s Hollywood. Everything is predictable aside from a few twists I didn?t see coming, terrible dialogue and even worse acting. Every single female in the movie was hot and/or sassy which to Hollywood is normal living in today?s world, not housing one girl that didn?t look like a supermodel. The movie?s full of unlikeable teens that promptly die in some pretty nasty fashion and the shadowy government figures that contain the words: evil and manipulating in their resume.
Overall, this film is fun, more so then the first. It gives you something to talk about around the water cooler and chews up about 2 hours of your pitiful life. Since it?s no longer out I would either rent it or wait until it comes down to budget price. It?s no masterpiece and never will be, and if you love Alien or Predator to the point of fanaticism, you probably will want to tear your eyes out. But if you say that you didn?t have fun and shout at the screen, you?re only lying to the Escapist and yourself.
The Alien Verse Predator movies has always struck my ?so bad it?s bad but there?s gore and neat CGI so I?ll watch it at the movies? nerve and when Alien Vs predator Requiem hit the cinema I merrily decided to watch the first session off the truck. Before you say, ?PurpleRain you Gonzo bastard you, you hate Hollywood? I only hate Hollywood when they try to be serious with themselves. When they make a movie say, evil creature X vs unspeakable horror Y containing giggling hot chick Z, I generally like it more as a popcorn viewing good time. Before going in I expected a few things: violence, action, a lot of people dying and some cool scenes that I'll replay in my head but replace the hero with me and throw in an attractive yet hardcore lady, or two in my personal fantasies while on the train to college. Anyways, watching the movie I got all of the above plus more.
The movie opens straight after the first. The Predalien slaughters everyone on the ship, it crashes in some peaceful American town (perfect setting for 90% Hollywood horrors) where everyone knows each other like the feel-good TV show, The Gilmore Girls, and Aliens escape into the wilderness. Then I saw it, the ultimate movie killer? a child. Whenever in Hollywood movies they bring on a child actor, he immediately becomes the films hero and saves the day even if he was battling Jesus himself! I planted my face firmly but gently in my palm and proceeded to kill of my own brain cells wondering why the hell the producers would do this to us. Then suddenly something happened; the kid died. Slapped by a face hugger, the little shit was no more. What!? This can?t be! It was like I was told throughout my childhood that the sky was green then finding out it?s actually blue. It put me right off? but in a good way.
As the movie continued the child slaughter didn?t end. It was like the director had a burning hatred for his younger man. Cute little bundles of joy and happiness were consumed to feed the ever-growing hive colony! Another scene showed three (not one but three!) chest buster aliens rip apart a pregnant lady.
The action in Requiem was a partial let down to me. I was expecting the Predator army at least tenfold of what they had last time but instead the Predator home world sets off one Predator, that can only be described as one hardcore mo fo, to wipe out the Alien race before they spread and likely eradicate all life in the galaxy. I guess I do like him; I would have preferred more of a full out war but unlike the last batch of pontsy teenage Predators in the last AVP, this one knows how to kick arse and chew bricks. Chuck Norris would shit himself in a fight with it.
The first hour manly consists of aliens basically tracking down and laying chest busters into people that society wouldn't miss like bums and kids (those crafty aliens). The movie spends so much time dawdling around the aliens building their army that you kinda forget that the movie is about a Predator as well. Then he lands (dun dun dun!). Some kind of cover up expert I think, destroying all evidence that aliens and predators ever existed. He'll carefully melt away the bodies with some kind of blue acid and hide in the shadows... this was up to the point were he kills, skins and hangs up a local police officer. Subtle.
Anyway, this goes on for a bit of cat chase mouse, and cat cover up mouse tracks, before getting to the balls to the wall action, gore, death, gut, sexiness, death, lasers, baby eating and general gut wrenching awesomeness that I didn't expect from it. Aliens went around the town killing anything that decided to live, and the predator went around killing aliens and people that got in his way. The gore was through the roof in the usual Aliens and Predator fashion and some pretty kickarse fight scenes between the two ensued. This is what you came to expect from the franchise isn?t it? Something I noticed was that it was less of a sci-fi action as the last and more of a horror themed sci-fi.
So to point out more of the obvious I?ll get to what?s wrong with it. Well firstly, it?s Hollywood. Everything is predictable aside from a few twists I didn?t see coming, terrible dialogue and even worse acting. Every single female in the movie was hot and/or sassy which to Hollywood is normal living in today?s world, not housing one girl that didn?t look like a supermodel. The movie?s full of unlikeable teens that promptly die in some pretty nasty fashion and the shadowy government figures that contain the words: evil and manipulating in their resume.
Overall, this film is fun, more so then the first. It gives you something to talk about around the water cooler and chews up about 2 hours of your pitiful life. Since it?s no longer out I would either rent it or wait until it comes down to budget price. It?s no masterpiece and never will be, and if you love Alien or Predator to the point of fanaticism, you probably will want to tear your eyes out. But if you say that you didn?t have fun and shout at the screen, you?re only lying to the Escapist and yourself.