Review of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007) by Kyle-395 — 21 Nov 2020

Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, despite what other viewers say, is truly a great film. To me, this movie is like a combination of Aliens and Predator. This movie was jam-packed with action, gore, and plenty of violence! Basically what happens is, that the movie starts where the original AVP left off.

The Predalien bursts out of the predator 'Scar' and kills the other predators on their ship, causing it to crash in the Colorado woods. A father and son hunting nearby, come to investigate and end up getting attacked by some face huggers that escaped the wreckage.

Back on the Predator home world, a truly bad-ass predator receives a distress signal from the down ship and gears up to go and clean up the mess. The next few scenes are basically getting to know the main characters and their stories.

People start to go missing and soon, the predators and aliens and predalien, duke it out in an underground sewer system, take the battle to a power plant, a restaurant, a store (where the few main characters are hold up), a school, a hospital, and finally, the big roof-top battle.

My favorite scenes were definitely when the predator stalks the people in the forest, and all the scenes in the hospital. This movie had everything I had hoped an AVP movie would have, and more! There were only two tiny things that I thought were wrong.

This movie is very dark, lighting wise, and sometimes I thought that some of the fights were a bit too dark, so that you couldn't really see much of what was going on. It wasn't that big a deal. Another thing, which both AVP movies have in common, is timing.

They go by two fast. Or at least the beginning of this one did. One thing they should do to try and fix that is going back to the way that the original films started up. Slow and calm, like Alien. I think that would help with timing and maybe get these movies a little more paced and suspenseful.