Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (AVP 2)

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  November 8, 2009

  cowmageddon

  The only good thing I can say about this movie is the Predator actually hunting the aliens and not just dieing like they did in the first one.
  What sucked about the movie is again the convienience plot. In the first 2 Alien films it takes days for the alien to chust bust. This...( read more) one has it down from implantation to full grown alien in 10 minutes. They even bypass having a queen by having the pred-alien do some implanting. Thats just so very WRONG. I hated the nursey scene in the hospital too.

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  August 28, 2009

  SirPant

  I'm being generous by giving it 2 stars really. It was good as far as an action/Gore film goes but hard core fans of the franchise/franchises will be disappointed. There is no sense of suspense and Its nothing like the comics, which was always this franchises problem in my opinio...( read more)n. I wish filmmakers would think about the original audience before taking on these types of projects. Now, lets join the storeys together over a couple more films and end on a high with Alien vs. Predator vs. Terminator!
  And now for a bold statement: Special effects people should not direct films! Also, can anyone answer this question: Why does an Alien that's used a Predator as a host come out as a cross between the species when an alien that uses a human or a dog's body comes out a plain old Alien? Answers on a postcard. Take it or leave it or just stick it up your Strause , your choice!

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  April 7, 2009

  phubbs1

  OK ok now Im the biggest fudging Predator fan around and I have been waiting for this baby .the first AvP was a horrible disappointment and lame as hell but Im pleased to say this is a much better film even though it still pales to the classic Aliens and Predator originals. Right...( read more), the predalien is somewhat of a mess Im afraid, not well thought about in my opinion...oh how I wish Mr Winston was still on the scene, it brings back memories of the shitty looking human/alien hybrid from Alien Resurrection, not good. The start of the film is slow and uninteresting to be honest, the sequence where the predalien makes the predator ship crash is shit frankly and doesn't leave a positive feeling for the rest haha but it does get better. The predator has been slimmed down and looks and sounds much more to the original predator although the face is still not as good as the original. The blood and gore is on par and does look good, the face melting sequence is great. The battles between Alien and Pred are good, alittle short but still hit the mark, AvP had good battles too, its probably the easiest thing to do as it will always look cool having an alien fight a pred. The story is really just the same as the first and any other AvP's will be too...its just war. The humans are ok, alittle bit too slasher style with all the youths running around but Im not here for the humans haha although they do have an edge on the first AvP. Generally there is alot of Aliens rips going on, alot of very similar scenes to Aliens, the fight styles, army v aliens, alittle girl asking about monsters, the final escape to a chopper, kinda copying really. But it does actually add to the film, alittle. All in all the problem is the two warring species aren't scary anymore cos its become an action flick, the two original films for the creatures were quite scary and very tense, aliens included, its become to much of a slasher with guns in the style of a shoot em up flick, no build up. What they should do is a total war flick between aliens n preds with no humans. Maybe on the pred homeworld, which is still fully unrealised, or a pred outpost somewhere in the galaxy. using just their own lanuage. Also, Predator 3, Alien 5, lets get these going and blend them in. Alien 5 could well mix the two, a full war on earth set much further in the future after AvP 2 between humans and aliens, with the predator coming to help or watch. I still like my idea of using the space jockey from Alien, what has happened to that species? how do they figure? are they peaceful? why where they transporting alien eggs? there is alot you can do. Overall this is good, I liked it, its touching on the original Predator again, although the alien side doesn't fair as well and hinting at a final third and hopefully awesome storyline tie up to the alien series.
  (the whole timeline is this....Predator, Predator2, AvP, AvP2,
  Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien4)
  The third could and should be very good if they think about it haha.

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  February 23, 2009

  AgentLexi2132

  ''What the fuck are you?''
  
  Warring alien and predator races descend on a small town, where unsuspecting residents must band together for any chance of survival.
  
  Steven Pasquale: Dallas Howard
  
  Gunnison County, Colorado faces an incredible crisis of galactic propo...( read more)rtions..A Predator-alien hybrid, Pred-lien, has birthed on a Predator ship, causes the space vessel to crash-land in a forest region on Earth near the Colorado town posing a thread to humankind. We watch as the Predalien spreads eggs into the human populace while the face-huggers, which escapes the crashed Predator ship, attach to human faces. The birthing process, unlike in previous Alien films, is much faster it seems and they soon grow into the monsters that go on a murderous rampage leaving bodies piled up. Soon the National Guard moves in only to be eliminated in quick fashion, leaving a motley group of surviving citizens to fend for their very lives as menacing baddies are at every turn. A Predator warrior, who finds his fallen comrades, silently vows vengeance, and any human in this path will die.
  
  Glossy dumb cartoon action-horror flick is a fun way to waste 100 minutes. Characters are given just enough exposition to establish them before they face the trials of being in between a war of a Predator warrior and slimy alien walkers. Yes, a lot of the film takes place at night and within darkened places(such as a sewer during which alien face huggers attach themselves to derelicts' faces and Predalien attacks a female hobo who finds her buddies under unfortunate conditions, while we also see the Predator warrior setting up hi-tech booby-traps and blasting them before exploding through the city street above)so the action can be hard to place which is a shame. I didn't have a problem others, it seems, have with the CGI used in the film. CGI granted is obvious in areas. The filmmakers found clever ways to use Predator warrior's night vision to display the violent wake of their victims' dead bodies. There was also an amusing scene where a citizen's head is taken clean off by the Predator warrior's helmet laser. And, the Predator warrior uses a large , hi-tech forms of daggers which, when thrown, slice off alien heads(..one even sticks a human to the wall). The Predalien is a funny hybrid which can actually lay eggs down the throats of victims(..as is the case when the things fills the body of a pregnant woman in a hospital). It has the face of a Predator, yet has the alien walker's whipping tail. As in any of the previous films that came before this, there are human casualties, in the wrong place at the wrong time, such as a father and his son hunting, nuclear power plant technicians who find themselves trapped at work while the Predator warrior does battle with an alien walker, a sensitive father whose killed right in front of his returned soldier wife and frightened daughter, etc. You have two brothers, with a troubled relationship, who must set aside their differences when terrors are threatening them.
  One's gorgeous girlfriend gets the goofy clichéd lines that have become standard dialogs for these kind of films, such as "We're not gonna make it, are we?" or "Maybe, they're all gone." You have the typical governmental corruption, as humans expect an airlift to rescue them with a plane under different orders. As you've probably read elsewhere, with a fine-tooth comb, you could pick this film clean because there are an endless foray of holes which pop out to snap you faster than an alien walker's second mouth..but, it goes by so fast that I barely had enough time to care. Certainly a guilty pleasure, but isn't a classic by any means of the imagination. If you can somehow turn your brain off...this might be entertaining.
  
  If anything, we get little aliens bursting from the stomachs of women, acid melting away human faces, and a combat between a Predator using the gadgetry at his disposal against a growing number of nasty, slimy-mouthed aliens. What's not to love? Cue awkward silence...

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  December 20, 2008

  stopitgoaway

  I work at a movie theater, so I had the awesome pleasure of getting to dry run this movie (that's projection lingo for "watch movie early"). I just saw this, and let me tell you.....it's Bad-Ass, with a capital B and A, if you didn't notice. Let me explain why this sequel is roug...( read more)hly a jillion times better than the first movie...
  
  Now, anyone who knows about this movie is already familiar with AvP 1. That was directed by Paul Anderson, a man who's been raping franchises for a while now. The movie was rated PG-13, which should already tell you how good it's gonna be (who rates an Alien/Predator movie PG-*******-13?). Turns out, the movie was complete garbage. It looked good, but it sucked for a few reasons: The Predators weren't BAMFs. Two got killed way early, and the last one standing just didn't take care of business like a bad-ass. He had to team up with a human in order to defeat the aliens. Come on now. Second, it was cheesy as hell (thanks to Paul Anderson). The human characters sucked, and overall, it lacked the feel of a Predator and Alien movie. Last....it was rated PG-13, and had little to no blood. It's Predator and Alien! How could it be PG-13? Long story short, it sucked.
  
  Now, we have AvP: Requiem, and Anderson had ZERO to do with it, so that's an early indication it won't be a stinking pile of ass. It was directed by The Brothers Strauss, who directed a whole bunch of cool music videos. These two not only made a movie that looks amazing visually, but they made a movie that felt exactly like a Predator and Alien movie should feel like: Thrilling, bloody, gory, and absolutely HARDCORE. I'm not kidding. Just when you think this movie goes too far, it goes even further, and you're just sitting there, thinking, "Wow, that's bad-ass."
  
  The one difference everyone will notice is that it's rated R, and for good reason. This movie pulls out no stops when it comes to savage and brutal, bad-ass violence. In the first ten minutes, a guy hunting in the forest with his 8 year old boy gets his arm melted off, and he and his son get impregnated by a couple of face-huggers. A few minutes later, they both come to, and guess what? Both their chests burst in bloody goodness. The movie sets the tone within the first ten minutes. I mean, my God, they kill an 8 year old kid in the first ten minutes. That's how you know this movie will be bad-ass and balls-to-the-wall violent.
  
  Unlike the first one, this movie actually has interesting characters that you kind of enjoy watching and listening to. They have personality, and you actually don't really want most of them to die (even though it's beyond bad-ass when they are killed).
  
  The story revolves around the Predator ship from part 1 crash landing on earth, with an alien/predator hybrid in it. They send a lone Predator to earth to "clean up" the mess, and let me tell you, this Predator is a complete bad-ass. If Chuck Norris had dreads, a helmet, and mandibles, he'd be this predator. No joke. This Predator goes around the small town, and hunts down the aliens, killing them off one by one in some amazingly bad-ass scenes. Caught right in the middle of this chaos are the humans, but unlike in AvP, this Predator shows no mercy towards anyone. He doesn't team up with a human, he doesn't cooperate, he goes in, cleans up, kills aliens, and if a human gets in his way, he eviscerates them. The stars of the show are obviously the Predator and Aliens, so whenever a human is on screen and they start fighting, naturally, you're just waiting for the Predator to come back and start killing. But either way, who cares. It's bad-ass.
  
  The action scenes are thrilling, to say the least. Every single action scene in the movie has at least one "HOLY ****!" moment, and the movie is filled with scenes that make you just say, "That's just ****ing insane." For instance, SPOILERS HERE, in the movie, they kill an 8 year old kid, like 30 newborn babies in a hospital (although it's not shown on screen, you know what the hell happened), and an unborn baby while it's in it's mother's belly. I am not kidding. This movie doesn't take the easy way out with characters or events. Characters that you don't expect to live die, and what they do to prevent the alien threat from spreading outside the town is pretty surprising and crazy. This movie is ****ing hardcore and brutal.
  
  The end fight with the Predator and Predalien is awesome. The fights with the Predator and Aliens are absolutely amazing, especially the hospital fight where he takes on like 5 of them. The end of this fight is nicely capped off with an unexpected "HOLY ****!!!" moment. You'll jump the **** out of your seat smiling when you see what happens to one of the human characters at the end of this fight.
  
  If you hated the first one, you'll love this one. If you loved the first one, you'll love this one. It amps up the action, gore, blood, thrills, and just sheer bad-assness by a million. The Brothers Strauss did an amazing job with this movie, not only visually, but pretty much on every scale possible. When you watch this, you feel like you're watching the original Predator again. All it needed was an Arnold cameo, and it'd be set.
  
  This comes out on Christmas. I'm sure Jesus will be happy to get a bad-ass present like this one

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  November 10, 2009

  zahidcontractor

  Day: Thursday
  Date: 20 March 2008
  Time: 11.30 pm
  With: Noone
  On: PC
  
  I think the part 1 was grand and better.

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  November 4, 2009

  blashyrkh1985

  good movie but it could have been better

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  November 4, 2009

  goatmylick

  5 Stars, i love this movie, no one can change my mind so don't bother trying u alien haters.

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  November 3, 2009

  totalefreiheit

  No tan buena como AVP 1. Pero pasa.

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  October 31, 2009

  mimipheonix

  this movie is great!...too!

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  June 19, 2008

  Khameleo23

  wish they didn't continue with this franchise. if they had characters that didn't merely serve as plasma cannon fodder or xenomorph meals, then i might have enjoyed it.
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  June 6, 2008

  detchupeey

  honestly, i don't enjoy it.
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  May 23, 2008

  davebiker

  not as much action as the first movie, not as good as the first movie, but it was ok, if there is a third movie to be made, i do expect there to be loads more predator and alien action scenes!
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  May 18, 2008

  jbokenham

  When I rented the video I was very excited, but however I was disappointed that the movie was to to dark to watch. I couldn't see most of the scenes. I know it supposed to be a night-time action movie, but please brighten it up a bit. I mean the other Alien movies were ok. As for the story line it's below what I expected. There is also a fine line between good horror and ....... Well what can I say but they should have deleted the scenes of the pregnant women and the babies in the hospital ward. Did they really need to put that in and the young kid in the beginning of the movie. But At leastI can say, It wasn't scary since you couldn't see it. My only regret is wasting $3 of renting the video. I should have spent that money on the original at least I can see it.
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  May 3, 2008

  itbegins2005

  Pathetic.
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  April 19, 2008

  teddycraze34

  After watching the 1,2, and 3 movie I was expecting this one to be good like the others, however I could'nt see much due to dark scenes and could not tell who's fighting who in there. I was disappoiting about this one. Would not def recommend this to others to watch.
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  April 19, 2008

  bean256

  I was very disappointed with this movie, the fighting scene were alright, but the storyline in general was weak! I am a very big Predator fan so i was happy when this one bad ass Predator came and kicked everyones ass, that was hard. But the whole teenage dispute didn't fit into the movie whats so ever. I really hope that they come out with a part 3 to make up for part 2.
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  March 8, 2008

  Krame

  Has some all right moments, but for the most part, it's just a really bad movie. I like my Predator flicks, and I like my Aliens, but this... no. And who cares about the teenage male lead having a crush on some girl, it's AVP R, not AVP OC!
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  March 1, 2008

  abolderme

  Great movie,I loved the action and who nu?
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  February 24, 2008

  pavacri23

  pretty good but something it looks feak the monster an dthe fights

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