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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

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Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem (2007)

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Reviews Counted: 66

Fresh: 9

Rotten:57

Average Rating: 3.1/10

Consensus: The increased gore and violence over the first Alien vs. Predator can't excuse Requiem's disorientating editing, excessively murky lighting, and lack of new ideas.

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for violence, gore and language.

Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins

Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy

Theatrical Release: Dec 25, 2007 Wide

Box Office: $41,668,854

Synopsis: ALIEN VS. PREDATOR relegated its intergalactic grudge match to Antarctica, keeping most of humankind gleefully ignorant. This time around, though, the destruction takes place in suburban America, and those who have been waiting for it... ALIEN VS. PREDATOR relegated its intergalactic grudge match to Antarctica, keeping most of humankind gleefully ignorant. This time around, though, the destruction takes place in suburban America, and those who have been waiting for it finally get to witness facehuggers, alien hybrids, and the dreadlocked Predator wreak some homeland havoc. Directors Colin and Greg Strause (billed as "The Brothers Strause") don’t seem concerned with achieving the tension of the original ALIEN and PREDATOR films, instead using their visual effects backgrounds to create a steady stream of monsters, gore, and goo. Picking up where AVP ended, REQUIEM sees Predator on a homebound spacecraft when a baby alien/Predator hybrid bursts from his chest, causing the ship to crash in the Colorado woods. Several facehugger specimens escape, planting eggs down the throats of a hunter and his son. Soon, baby aliens emerge from their bodies and head for town, where ex-con Dallas (Steven Pasquale), Iraq War vet Kelly (Reiko Aylesworth), pizza delivery boy Ricky (Johnny Lewis), high school heartthrob Jesse (Kristen Hager), and sheriff Morales (John Ortiz) have their own separate encounters with the creatures. The dead Predator’s home planet receives a transmission of the alien outbreak, and a fellow denizen of his world is dispatched to clean up the multiplying aliens, eventually causing enough death and destruction for government intervention. This is essentially a slasher film (or FREDDY VS. JASON with aliens), and the characters in REQUIEM are secondary to the creature effects. Fans of the comic books and videogames will appreciate the Strauses‘ adherence to the lore of the series, but others will probably just find thrills in the copious special effects, which are frequent and well-done (if often occurring in darkness). There is also a significant amount of indiscriminant gore in this rightfully R-rated film. A government conspiracy plot thread and an ambiguous ending ensure that this battle isn’t over yet. [More]

Starring: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Ariel Gade

Starring: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Ariel Gade, Johnny Lewis

Director: Brothers Strause

Director: Brothers Strause
Screenwriter: Shane Salerno
Producer: John Davis, David Giler, Walter Hill
Composer: Brian Tyler
Studio: 20th Century Fox

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Apr 15, 2008

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Blu-ray Disc Features:

  • Keep Case
  • Widescreen

Audio:

  • 5.1 DTS HD Master Audio - English
  • Disc 1: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM - Rated; Unrated Versions

Additional Release Material:

  • Alternate Scenes - Deleted Scenes (w/Optional Commentary)
  • Audio Commentaries - 1. Colin Strause, Greg Strause - Co-Directors; Shane Salerno - Screenwriter
  • 2. Tom Woodruff, Alec Gillis - Special Effects
  • Trailers - 20th Century Fox High Definition Theatrical Trailers

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  • Disc 2: ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM - Digital Copy

Reviews for Aliens Vs. Predator: Requiem

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Beast vs. beast, and it's not compelling in the least. Studio Fox rolls its two rampaging monster franchises out of cryo-stasis in this clunky and dumb sequel to the clunky and dumb 2004 eyesore, Alien vs. Predator

Full Review Source: Urban Cinefile | comment Comment
01/08/08
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Well, it's official: the Road to Hell is pretty much paved over ... the Strause Brothers ... expressed their [good] intention to return to the dark, scary tone of 1979's Alien, yet Requiem is just about as bad as its 2004 predecessor.

Full Review Source: ESplatter | comment Comment
07/09/08
Steve Biodrowski
ESplatter
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Too underlit to qualify as splatter, too bloodless to qualify as fun, too unaware of its own idiocy to be enjoyed Grindhouse-style, AvP:R is a real education in the finer stratifications of badness.

Full Review Source: JurgenFauth.com | comment Comment
06/13/08
Jurgen Fauth
JurgenFauth.com
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Does Alien vs. Predator: Requiem spell the end of the dual-monster franchise? Let's hope so

Full Review Source: Washington Times | comment Comment
03/23/08
Christian Toto
Washington Times
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i want more aliens fewer people!

Full Review Source: sbs.is | comment 3 Comments
02/18/08
Stefan Birgir Stefansson
sbs.is
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Well, there's not much to see here. And I mean that literally.

Full Review Source: Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | comment 3 Comments
02/09/08
Linda Cook
Quad City Times (Davenport, IA)
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Un spectacle insipide, ennuyant à mourir et de très mauvais goût

Full Review Source: Panorama | comment Comment
02/05/08
Jean-François Vandeuren
Panorama
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I'm left wondering why I felt like I was watching two different movies that never quite came together as a parallel arc beyond the clunky "They're all fighting personal wars" motif...

Full Review Source: Cinema Crazed | comment Comment
02/05/08
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
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Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem is literally shrouded in darkness, and the only explicable reason for this pitch-black visual schema is that the filmmakers understood it was better if no one could see the **** they were shooting.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
01/20/08
Nick Schager
Slant Magazine
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With a spike in the gore quotient, hardcore fans left baying for Paul WS Anderson’s blood after the first AVP may be happy. Those interested in anything more than a barely comprehensible bitch-slap between two ill-treated icons should take a rain-check.

Full Review Source: Total Film | comment Comment
01/18/08
Tony Horkins
Total Film
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At best the movie's an unpretentious pile-up of B-movie clichés, but why "Requiem"? Time to give it a rest now.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
01/18/08
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph
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The world's most illogical and boring action-horror grudge-match between two dull trademarked franchise monsters is back on.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
01/18/08
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]
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A mindless distraction.

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01/18/08
James Christopher
Times [UK]
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This feature directing debut from former visual effects men Colin and Greg is enjoyable enough in rudimentary tension/splatter/scrap terms, but it still doesn't live up to its heritage.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
01/18/08
Daniel Etherington
Channel 4 Film
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Fans deserve better.

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01/18/08
Jamie Russell
BBC
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Scriptwriter Shane Salerno’s dialogue is unspeakable, the visceral horror all too familiar, and the ideas distinctly second-hand.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment 1 Comment
01/18/08
Nigel Floyd
Time Out
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An early but strong contender for worst movie of 2008.

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01/18/08
Chris Hewitt (UK)
Empire Magazine
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...wastes no money on stars, no time on plot or character, and no lighting on the set...

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01/17/08
Jim Lane
Sacramento News & Review
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Again, the Aliens are slapdash in their rampaging and the Predator is relatively moral, holding to strict rules of hunting.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
01/17/08
Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
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... why not just film an intergalactic reality show where eager young predators can prove their worth for fabulous prizes by surviving 24 hours on the alien homeworld?

Full Review Source: MovieCrypt.com | comment Comment
01/16/08
Kevin A. Ranson
MovieCrypt.com
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