Dear Alex - I thought Alien vs Predator: Requiem was totally boring, apart from the special effects. The acting was very B-grade, and the story was very juvenile. The film plot is basically one after another after another after another person being killed by Alien and its babies, in a kind of over-done gory fashion, getting more and more voyeuristic (semi-naked pregnant women in a hospital having their fetuses sucked out by the Alien shoving its organ all the way down their throats?), while Predator does an increasingly crappy job of finding the Aliens and destroying the evidence of their visit to earth until the US Army finally nukes the place and does the job for him. The amazing cast includes a bunch of poorly frightened townsfolk from Small Town USA, including your beleaguered but courageous sheriff, a teenage girl with the skinniest body in Hollywood who strips down to her bikini in an “erotic”(?) scene, and a pizza delivery boy who has an innate sense of how to use a military-issue automatic rifle. The film has very little in common with the first Alien movies. One of the golden rules of horror cinema is that if you scare the audience too often, it isn’t scary anymore, it becomes a joke. The film breaks this rule. This film is disappointing and doesn’t live up to the hype. It is schlocky without being funny in the way the 1950s sci-films were. Do yourself a favor and don’t go. Don’t even watch it on DVD.
- Mr James