So, I netflixed Aliens vs. Predator Requiem, since I couldn’t convince myself to see it in the theater, and I’m glad I didn’t see it in the theater.
If you look up the definition of requiem, it says:
1: a mass for the dead
2 a: a solemn chant (as a dirge) for the repose of the dead b: something that resembles such a solemn chant
3 a: a musical setting of the mass for the dead b: a musical composition in honor of the dead
So it seems fitting that the title lets you know that the AvP series is dead. Really they probably should not have even made this movie. The movie is dark, and I don’t mean as in “dark and brooding” or somber. I mean it was hard to tell what the hell is going on, because you have a black alien fighting an invisible predator at night, in a sewer. Not that the whole movie is like that, but more often than not the fight scenes are dark and confusing. On top of that there is the incoherent “story”, which seems to be about people in a small Colorado town and how they have to defeat the alien menace.
Not even the hybrid predator/alien can make this worth seeing. There are no good views of this monster throughout the movie. You get glimpses and fragments of images, and that’s about it. What looks like happened is that the movie wanted to save on special effects costs and made cheap/cheesy monsters that they tried not so show too much on screen, lest the viewer see the zippers and wires.
There is one scene that made me giggle a little bit and that is when someone yells “Get to the chopper!” Quite the parody of the original Predator. The only other scene that is kinda neat was tossed in at the end to add to they “mythos”. It has someone named Yutani receiving Predator technology. I guess this is how Weyland-Yutani (the company from the Alien series) gets started.
I really don’t think that those two scenes make this movie worth watching. If you want to see hot predator on alien action, watch (or re-watch) AVP, don’t watch AVPR.
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