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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2116 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-05-12
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 97 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
For those who found 2004's Aliens vs. Predator too lightweight in the gore-and-guns department, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem offers a marked improvement in both categories, as well as a respectable amount of rumbles between the title extraterrestrials. Set in the 21st century (which predates the story to all of the Alien features), Requiem sends a crippled Predator ship crashing to Earth in a small Colorado town; unbeknownst to the locals, the craft is loaded with H.R. Giger's insectoid monsters, which make quick work of most of the population. As the human cast is slowly whittled to a few hardy (if unmemorable) souls, a Predator warrior also arrives to complicate matters and do battle with the Aliens, as well as a ferocious Alien-Predator hybrid (dubbed a Predalien by the sci-fi and horror press).

Visual-effects designers and music-video helmers The Strause Brothers (who make their feature directorial debut here) keep the action on frantic throughout, which is wise, since the dialogue and characters are threadbare at best; that should matter little to teenage male viewers, who are inarguably the film's key audience. Fans of the Alien franchise, however, may find the offhanded nod to the series' mythology given during the finale its sole saving grace. --Paul Gaita, Amazon.com

Synopsis
ALIEN VS PREDATOR relegated its intergalactic grudge match to Antarctica, keeping most of humankind gleefully ignorant. This time around, though, the destruction takes place in suburban America and facehuggers, alien hybrids, and the dreadlocked Predator wreak havoc. Directors Colin and Greg Strause (billed as 'The Brothers Strause') use their visual effects backgrounds to create a steady stream of monsters, gore, and goo. Picking up where AVP ended, REQUIEM sees Predator on a homebound spacecraft when a baby alien/Predator hybrid bursts from his chest, causing the ship to crash in the Colorado woods. Several facehugger specimens escape, planting eggs down the throats of a hunter and his son. Soon, baby aliens emerge from their bodies and head for town, where ex-con Dallas (Steven Pasquale), Iraq War vet Kelly (Reiko Aylesworth), pizza delivery boy Ricky (Johnny Lewis), high school heartthrob Jesse (Kristen Hager), and sheriff Morales (John Ortiz) have their own separate encounters with the creatures. The dead Predator's home planet receives a transmission of the alien outbreak, and a fellow denizen of his world is dispatched to clean up the multiplying aliens, eventually causing enough death and destruction for government intervention.
Fans of the comic books and videogames will appreciate the Strauses' adherence to the lore of the series, but others will probably just find thrills in the copious special effects, which are frequent and of a high standard.

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Customer Reviews

poor effort dont buy wait until 20p in the charity shop if you want it
A few good scene ideas do not make a good movie, the producers should have stepped in and got a rewrite other than a few good set pieces ie the hospitol sequence this is dire, it is too dark so you cant see anything,there is no pace, no atmosphere a lot of borrowed homeage to past movies inc the sound effect.
This is like a scrap book of ideas turned in to a movie, considering the subject material this should be good but alas it isint, the effects are handled well but again shot too dark there is no plot or characters that stand out all human characters are as shallow and underdeveloped as possible.

As the review title suggests wait until it is in the local charity shop and get it for pence as it is not worth more, and thats if your a collector!!!!

Aliens Vs Predator - Requien 2 - Def Worth a Look
This film is being trampled on by quite a few. Firstly, the film is spot on for its darkness. Of course its a dark film and certainly is not the darkest.
Secondly, its equal if not better than the 1st AvP film. Since when have any of the Aliens or Predator films had a real story line? Come on!!

The effects are brilliant, the sound effects are just fine. There's fabulous suspense. Yes, there is no bars held on who is attacked, which is right, contraversial, but right..

Overall, I think its a good film.

Gory fun in the dark
This second Aliens vs. Predator film begins pretty much where the previous film left off with the Predator-Alien hybrid running amuck on the Predator ship and forcing it to crash near an American town. In order to contain the situation a lone Predator travels to earth to hunt the Aliens and eliminate all trace of them with the humans get caught in the middle.

I did enjoy this film more than I was expecting and I would definitely say that it is a vast improvement of the original Alien vs. Predator film (not that that is particularly difficult). Both the Aliens and the Predator are beautifully realised, the Predator with some cool weapons as usual and the Predator-Alien's method of reproduction is beautifully gory. There are also some good fights between the two sets of creatures and any poor visual effects are swallowed by the all pervasive darkness.

There are two main problems with the film however. The first is that, as I have already stated, a lot of the film takes place in near total darkness meaning that you will need good eyesight of increase the brightness on your TV if you want to tell what is going on much of the time. The second problem with the film is the human cast, all of whom are instantly forgettable, badly written and woodenly acted. At times it seems that the only reason they exist at all is to be killed off in a number of interesting ways.

Having said all this if what you really want from this sort of movie is the Aliens and the Predator to knock the stuffing out of each other and thankfully this film delivers that far better than its predecessor. This isn't the sort of film to think about just sit back, turn off you brain and enjoy the action (when you can see it). I would give this film a four; admittedly it is a low four but a four nonetheless.