Review of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007) by Vladabuba — 29 Nov 2020

First of all I'm huge Alien movie fan so there is no way that I did not critically looked at this movie. After marks set by Alien and Aliens, all movies afterwards including Alien 3 were gradually worse.

Alien Resurrection was catastrophe and especially AVP 1 was insult to all us Alien fans. Lacking good story and believable characters, any sense and respect to Alien history and background, too depressive or cartoonish, to me it was just plain waste of time and energy.

I thought that it was finished with Alien series. However when I saw that there would be one another movie in series I decided to give it a shot and watch it. As I had so much bad experience before, my enthusiasm was low and I was skeptic and pessimistic about film prospects.

When I started watching movie however this has started to gradually positively change and by the end of film I was really pleased by movie experience, for the first time after Aliens movie! Story is interesting, characters are fine, action is furious, and Aliens, Predalien and Predator are tough and believable again.

One of the best scenes are in the restaurant and in the hospital, level of horror and lighting is really masterfully planned. I need to mention and military ambush scene and town gathering that also give good atmosphere in film (did anyone wondered how defense would be organized by colonists on LV426?).

Ending also leaves us with questions, like did someone in top government already know about xenomorph existence? Bad things: dialogs are sometimes dull and shallow, some action scenes could be executed better by my opinion.

AVP:Requiem was right at the spot, rightfully in the series with Alien and Aliens movies.