Review of Aliens vs Predator: Requiem (2007) by Segall-1 — 30 Nov 2020

OK, everyone who says this is a horrible movie needs to understand something. This is a movie, not a film. It is not meant to be something awe inspiring with intelligent writing; it's a predator versus a bunch of aliens. This movie is highly entertaining. You watch a lone Elder/Master Predator trying to contain an alien infestation in a mountain town. This isn't going to make you think when it ends, it's not going to change your life. It is going to entertain you for an hour and half or so. You people need to understand that every piece of film is made for different purposes. You can't compare something that obviously wasn't made to be complicated to something that was.

Some 'spoilers'

I've read that these aliens were altered genetically by the predators to have a lightning fast gestation rate; so that's the 'a wizard did it' explanation by the writers. There should have been more scenes on the Predator homeworld showing their culture, women, etc. The predator xenomorph (people are calling it the 'predalien', so I guess they should call the others humaliens) was hard to make out during some scenes because the lighting and the zoom on the camera. What else? The acting was to be expected, same with choice of characters. I would have liked it better if the Predator either recruited the humans or at least have tried to communicate with them.

Basically, as I've said, this movie was made to be entertaining, and it is. If you are having a lot of people over who end up talking during movies, this is the one to watch. You're not going to miss anything important to the story and those kinds of people won't have their attentions wandering. It's also something you can watch by yourself, but make no mistake, if it's between this and a good one you haven't seen, watch the good one.