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Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem - 2 Disc Ultimate Combat Edition [2007]

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Directors: Brothers Strause, Colin Strause, Greg Strause
Actors: Steven Pasquale, Reiko Aylesworth, John Ortiz, Ariel Gade, Johnny Lewis
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD

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Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars

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Sales Rank: 2036

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Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 97
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

EAN: 5039036037129
ASIN: B0013Z5B1O

Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: May 12, 2008
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Is rock bottom in sight ? May 31, 2008
After a trilogy of Aliens that probably stirred the world into the awareness of another era in the cinema before the second Star Wars trilogy or the Matrix trilogy, after a fourth resurrectional opus that was not up to the first three, after a first meeting of these Aliens and the Famous Predators, for the first time in the plural, that was interesting and definitely breath taking in some scenes, this let's hope final episode of this hijacked saga is disappointing, at least, if not frankly poor. Too much to suspend our disbelief for. The security space of the US is entirely open and a first extraterrestrial vessel can crash in some forest without raising any concern. A second vessel from the same cosmic origin can crash again without even raising an alarm. Impossible, except if we accept the very last sentence as being prophetic. "Ms. Yutani: The world isn't ready for this technology. Col. Stevens: But this isn't for our world, is it, Ms. Yutani?" Is this predator-weapon the technology that could pacify the world by killing the aliens that menace it, or is a good old nuclear bomb more effective? Some human leaders will prefer destroying their own kind provided they themselves can survive and keep the power they have even if it becomes a power over graves and tombstones, as long as they themselves are not the collateral victims. I think it could have been more effective with this punch line: "But this isn't FROM our world, is it, Ms Yutani?" I even think a Ms Hu, or a Ms Hussein would have been a lot more pungent. When you start thinking how a film could be improved, it sure means it is not very good. Maybe we should go back to John Wayne.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

1 out of 5 stars

A terrible terrible terrible terrible terrible..errr...terrible movie. May 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I went to see this at the cinema. Quite simply the worst use of money EVER. The film is poorly shot, idiotically scripted, randomly paced, unnecessarily fan-boyish and, dare I say it one more time, terrible. Yes, it seems I do.

I only gave this film 1 star because there was no '0' star rating. I would sooner have a face hugger jump my noggin' than buy this.

I think I've made my point.

1 out of 5 stars

Thanks goodness I'm not the only one who thinks they need to watch this with night vision May 29, 2008
24 out of 27 found this review helpful

This is one of the worst films I have ever seen (try to see) and a shameful abuse of one of the greatest movie monsters of all time. The Alien is no longer scary. Gone is the elegance. Gone is the menace and chilling patience. Made by people who know how to make FX but have no real idea about how to make a movie. I sometimes wondered if they were making fun of what had gone before, like a Zucker/Abrams flick as it seemed to veer into what could be construed as parody. Sadly, no.

I knew going in it would be bad, and that it would probably be yet another nail in the coffin of my favorite sci-fi sequels ("Alien" in my case, though I do enjoy the "Predator" films). I had seen the "redband" trailer, and stared in horror at its frenetic menagerie of 80s teen slasher cliches; I even watched the "exclusive" online clip of the film's first five minutes, and hoped that they had been edited down from a better-paced original (as it turned out, they had not). But even so, I gave the movie a shot. Why? I'm not sure. Perhaps because if a beloved artifice that one has admired for years is to be systematically dismantled and thrown on the trash heap, one should be there to watch it burn. At least, I thought, with my expectations this low, this movie's directors would have to try very hard to undercut them.

They did. I mean really, they must have tried hard. It takes some kind of effort to take two of the most durable mythologies in modern scifi and make them a backdrop to a pizza guy's coming of age. Seriously. That is the only discernible story-arc in this entire film. Truth be told I could forgive even that if the characters hadn't came pre-assembled right out of the teen movie stock barrel. Instead this film spends 40 minutes trying to make us care whether Smarmy Teen gets it off with Hot Blonde before Blond Bully Ex-Boyfriend finds out. Thank God he has Troubled Ex-Con Brother (who trumps in along with his buddy, Nice Cop) to help him out once the aliens (who arrive courtesy of "disturbing" evisceration of Happy Hunting Dad and his son, Curious Preteen) start to take out the population (such as Mumbling Bum Who No One Will Ever Believe and Dense Cop Who Keeps Looking In The Dark After Everyone Else Has Left). They soon meet up with Screaming Bereft Mother and Military Chick, who saves her daughter Cute Little Girl after her husband Wussy New Man is vivisected in line with tradition.

Honestly, with this zoo of automated plot-bots to manage, how do the aliens and the predators (actually a Predator) get a look in? Well in truth, they don't. Very little time is spent developing either character (and let's face it, since neither character actually talks, that isn't surprising) and any tension built up between them is quickly dissipated as the film returns to the interminable "I Know What You Did Last Summer" slasher plot. I'm not sure what sort of budget this had but you can see that money spent on each subsequent Alien or Predator film is getting less & less, with average special effects, no name actors, bland locations & surprisingly cheap looking production values. Please stop embarrassing yourselves even further.

1 out of 5 stars

The Good, The Bad, The More Bad, The Still More Bad, and the Fugly. May 29, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

This is a Frankenstein's Monster of a movie. Both Victor Frankenstein's creation and "Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem" seemed like a good idea done for what seemed like the right reasons, they both have all the right parts, but they're stitched together in a less-than-ideal manner, and upon being unleashed, they both leave devastation and despair in their wake. Maybe that's too melodramatic a way to phrase it, but watching this movie certainly wasn't an enjoyable experience for me. I started out trying to make this a balanced, thoughtful, even-handed critique: something in between the "Worst movie ever! Kill all those involved!" and "SO kewl best movie in history lol" reviews everyone else is doing. I even gave myself a couple weeks of "cooling-off time." But I just cannot help letting some bitterness and sarcasm leak out. I just can't.

Okay, if you've read the other reviews, you know the deal with this film. If not, in short: at the end of the first "AvP" (which, despite its flaws, is an unfairly underrated film, I feel), a chestburster that shows hybrid features of both Predators and Aliens (a PredAlien, if you will, affectionately known as "Chet") bursts out of one of the fallen hunters aboard the Predators' mothership. "AvP:R" picks up right at that moment. Chet goes on a rampage, somehow makes it back to Earth (it's a bit hazy how unless you listen to all the commentaries) and starts an infestation and killing spree in Canada-disguised-as-Colorado. Back on the Yautja (Predator, for non-uebergeeks) Homeworld, a Predator who "cleans up" after hunts that go REALLY wrong -- his name is "Wolf" -- finds out about this little mishap and heads for Earth to take care o' bidness. Carnage ensues. Lots of it. And then you get a hint of what is yet to come for the Human race.

I watched this movie through once normally, once with the producer's & directors' commentary, and once with the creature designers' commentary. I watched all the behind-the-scenes stuff on the bonus disc. And while a lot of stuff is explained in those sections, I'm still left scratching my head at certain points in the film. I'm a self-avowed sci-fi uebergeek; if I like a movie, I'll want to learn all about the gadgets, creatures, and suchlike in intricate, obsessive-compulsive detail afterward, so that on my many, many, many subsequent viewings, I can appreciate the film all the more. But I do NOT like to have to do hours of intensive research BEFORE watching a movie to be able to understand it! There were discussions in the commentaries about a couple of scenes that were cut from the theatrical release for time constraints that would have filled in more detail, such as how Chet got from the thoracic cavity of her host (yes, Chet is apparently some kind of immature queen) all the way back to Earth. Perhaps those filler scenes should have been reinstated AS WELL AS (I would even have taken INSTEAD OF) the extra seven minutes of over-the-top gore in this Ultimate Combat Edition.

The Good Stuff: New bad mutha of a Predator with sweet new weapons. A glimpse of the Yautja Homeworld. A LOT of thought and effort went into creature design, only one aspect of which I didn't take to (Chet's method of reproduction, mentioned in the "Bad Stuff" section below). High school bullies dying in horrible, protracted ways -- what's not to love about that? I also liked most of the sound effects and thematic elements (and even a couple of the lines) that were lifted directly from previous Alien and Predator movies. Some of the best tributes are the subtle ones: a "Space Jockey" skull in the Yautja trophy room, for example, and a tombstone in the local cemetery with the name of a victim from the first "Predator" film.

The Bad Stuff: There's paying cool tribute, and then there's outright copying someone else's work because you can't think of anything as good or better. And there were so many call-backs to the previous films that "AvP:R" ended up looking like a patchwork monstrosity overall. And they just HAD to shoehorn some teen "romance" (for "romance," read: "hormone-drenched lust") in there, and it comes off as just a tad creepy. Also, I don't care how bizarre and . . . uh . . . alien . . . a creature is, or how much it's been genetically modified to go quickly from larva to adult for sport purposes, NOTHING, not even Chet, could possibly grow from three-foot-long parasitic larva to sixteen-foot-long killing machine in the space of about an hour and with only one moulting. Speaking of Chet: her method of reproduction seems just too off-kilter, even for a fictional creature that's a hybrid between two other fictional creatures. And unless the Predators have personal teleportation devices, I can't imagine any way for Wolf to get around town so fast. A lot of the other reviewers here have complained about the wooden acting in this film. Personally, I didn't notice anything like that. I'd assumed the townspeople were all in shock about the events unravelling around them and weren't all "with it." Also, other reviewers have complained about the beasties frequently looking like puppets or men in suits. Well, they frequently ARE puppets or men in suits, folks. Even the original "Alien" and "Predator" films that these same critics are lauding worked that way. If you're going to start picking on that angle, you might as well give up on all sci-fi movies. Not everything can (or even should) be CGI all the time. Deal with it. And if you must watch this film, watch it at night with all the lights off and the blackout curtains drawn, because these guys wanted to make a dark, creepy, atmospherically moody movie, and ended up making one that was SO dark, any ambient light in your room will wash away the picture and your ability to understand what's happening onscreen for about 20% of the time.

I give this film a dismally low rating because it is probably tied with "Alien: Resurrection" as my least-favourite film of the franchise. But I bought it to complete my collection, and to let the studio know that I believe the franchise is worth keeping alive, GIVEN THE RIGHT STORY. If you want a better link between the Alien and Predator movies, and how Humanity got to the stars in the first place, I recommend the video game "Predator: Concrete Jungle." It has fewer plot holes, more adult themes, and you get to control how much killing and gore is unleashed and how it is done. It is EXCELLENT. As for "AvP:R," unless you're a die-hard fan who must fill in the holes in his/her collection (like me), I wouldn't even recommend spending money to rent it. Either trick someone into giving you a copy as a present, or wait for it to be broadcast for free on television. Then write to the studio and say you want another "AvP" movie, but next time, make it GOOD.

On the other hand, I watched this with my pal, Simon, who said he enjoyed it way more than he did the first "AvP" movie. To each his or her own, I guess.

1 out of 5 stars

Aliens vs Predator Lament May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I am a huge Aliens and Predator fan owning all the films (even the ones that shouldn't have been made like Aliens 3 and Resurrection) and even a number of props from the movies. I greatly looked forward to this movie but could not get to see this at a theatre so I bought the unrated version from the US to get it early. I am not a hugely demanding film viewer. I watch movies for entertainment not to be enlightened or informed as I have plenty of other sources of information to meet those needs. This is primarily an entertainment medium after all, but how disappointed am I that this is so flawed that I became hugely disappointed with the film just a few minutes in. I have to say that this makes AVP 1 look like 2001 by comparison.

As many others have described this, it quickly dissolves into a poor man's version of a teenage slasher flick with no suspense or character development whatsoever. How the producers and directors can call themselves fans of the franchise when in my view they have managed to completely kill it is beyond me. They have gone for a "gore fest" approach, I assume to hide their lack of talent rather than involving the audience and drawing them in so that you feel a part of what's going on. In Alien we all felt the claustrophobia of the ventilation tunnels and the suspense when Dallas was searching for the Alien and when it found him, the screen just went black. That was effective enough, we didn't see him get torn apart, we didn't need to. Less can indeed be more if the story is told well.

I am going to mention a few details which would ordinarily be called "spoilers", but as it is impossible to spoil this film anymore I will call them "Alerts".

Firstly, as a father of 3, I found the hospital scenes with the pregnant mothers completely abhorrent and unnecessary. I am surprised they didn't show the new born children being torn limb from limb just for effect. These sort of scenes may appeal to the drugged up knife wielding teenage gang member sickos out there but not to me. They did not even work as a vehicle for developing the storyline as how do the aliens grow to full size in no time at all, why weren't any of the aliens created by the predalien also predaliens and why when the whole town was being evacuated are the occupants of the hospital left there when they even have a helicopter to help evacuate them!! Also why does the Predator waste time skinning the deputy when it was going to great lengths with its blue bio liquid to hide any traces of an alien incursion. The list just goes on. I am so in sensed that the producers and directors have ruined this that I wished I had some of that blue liquid to pour all over them.

My recommendation to fans is stick to the original movies and to non fans is don't bother. I am just off now to through my copy in the bin.