Review of AvP: Requiem

Nothing says fun like a Predator taking his whip out and tearing up an alien. My first opinions of AvP: Requiem were highly promising with the apparent gore and geared up Predator. The R-rated trailer provided everything an AvP fan could desire. The human heads were exploding like fireworks in the sky. The aliens were running around stabbing would be victims with their hideous mini head while the Predator was destroying any likely victim to cross his path. All of the above sounds as though to provide for a promising movie. While the movie delivers on some parts, it also fails in others. Spoilers to follow....so don't read on if you haven't seen the movie.

THE GOOD:

• The Predator is a beast literally. He gets most of the classic weapons with a couple of new additions with the whip being my new favorite. It would have been nice to have seen the disc or the retractable netting, but hey it was to be expected.
• The Aliens still acted like aliens sneaking and lurking to their unsuspecting prey
• The gore was abundant and sometimes over the top, but that is to be expected with the genre since some of the first aliens movies pushed the bounds of acceptable gore.
• The killing was very plentiful. Both the alien and predator took out humans galore. The Predator really had some nice kills with the new remote mines and whip {my personal favorite}. The one kill that was particular cool was the spear through the head of the alien, which was topped by the lead's love interest taking a over sized ninja star to the gut. {I totally laughed my ass off after seeing her go down}

THE BAD:

• How does a Predalien go from a little baby to a big bidass in a matter of minutes with the abilities to take out a whole crew of Predators?
• Why do we always have to have one predominate Predator in every movie? Most predator fans want more predators. Yea it is probably more expensive to produce but an all out predator and alien battle would be epic. The only other conceivable excuse would be developing the story around more than one. Hollywood still has not wrapped their arms around the fact that most fans of the genre are not asking for a Titanic-esk plot. All we want are some sweet Predator and alien kills with cool Predator gadgets.
• So Predators are asexual??? The scene in the hospital still baffles me. The predalien injects embryos into some of the pregnant women in the hospital. While the scene was very gruesome, the movie might have given us the grounds of basis that the Predators could reproduce asexually. When the aliens used human, they carried over the human style of reproduction through a female alien so would that be the same for predators. Just an idea......
• The human arch in the story was just worthless. The obvious attempts to create new Ripleys and human counters to the previous movie was just lame. The story in general would have been better if the human actors would have had as many speaking lines as the predator.
• The final standoff was lame. Dear CGI and effect artists some of the stuff you guys do is amazing {IE: the human heads getting wasted by the duel Predator cannons}, but when you cannot see what the hell is going it really frustrates the movie watcher. If you can't make the CGI good enough for the scene, you should remove it not flash the camera all over the screan in a bad attempt to make the scene more visceral.
• Its an AvP movie and there was not enough AVP in the movie. People wanted to watch aliens messing up Predators and vice-versa. As you can probably tell personally I am a Predator fan. Most of us would not have had a problem with Predators dying if we could have seen more of them{I don't count the ones who get offed in the beginning}.

Final Conclusion: Its not bad as the first, but it really isn't that much better. Hollywood still is oblivious to what action/gore movie goers want for entertainment. AVP: Requiem is just a run of mill action/horror film. It should satisfy some while leaving most disappointed.

6.5 Predator Masks outta 10