Friday 4 January 2008

Movie review of Aliens vs Predator : Requiem

Aliens vs Predator:Requiem - 5/10
Directed by Strause Brothers

Plot Summary
Continuation of the first AVP. Predalien (half alien half predator) comes out and kills 2 predators in their spaceship which has about 4 facehuggers captive. The spaceship crashes back to earth in a small town where all the facehuggers and the predalien go on and kill shitloads of humans and making more aliens as well. Just as one of the predator dies before getting killed by the predalien in the spaceship,he sends out a distress signal,where a battle hardened predator nicknamed the Wolf (after Harvey Keitel's character in Pulp Fiction) comes to earth to do some clean up.
If you have no idea on what the fuck am I talking about, you should stop reading this and don't even bother watching this movie cause you won't understand.

Review
This movie is way much better than AVP1. AVP1 is shit because
a) It's directed by Paul WS Anderson. (Resident Evil)
b) It was rated PG. Never has that happened.
c) The predators were like pansies.
whereas AVPR is;
a) directed by 2 brothers who hated AVP1 and decided to make it more violent.
b) In US it's rated R.(just like all aliens and predator movies). Singapore it's NC16 but not to despair,it's fully uncut.
c) It's just one predator and he is a fucking badass!!

Bear in mind, if you wish to watch this movie, it's either you are an aliens or a predator fan or you like seeing people killed ridiculously then go ahead and do so.
The plot is shit and even worse is the script.Acting...fuck acting when you got 2 of the greatest sci fi villains going at each other. To my surprise, I loved the soundtrack. It has a mix of the old aliens and predator music in it which was very cool. There are also some scenes which are a direct tribute to both franchises.
and the kill scenes are fantastic. What I didn't like about this movie is the predalien which I think is an abomination to both characters. The whole movie is like predator vs predalien and not aliens vs predators even though there were shitloads of aliens in this movie. I rather watch the queen alien fight it out with a predator. The predator this time has quite abit of weapons and some were under used in my opinion but I found him to be really cool. The whole blue liquid thingy was abit too much though.
I would definitely recommend all fans of both genres to watch this movie on a weekend.
bottom line is FUCK the aliens!!! PREDATOR RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Movies Recommended by the director
None but everyone should watch Alien 1 to 3 (dont bother watching the fourth one cause it has winona ryder aka whineona "I'm a thief but please watch my movies" ryder in it)
Predator 1 and 2

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